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xen-ppc-devel
[XenPPC] Re: mpic discovery and blades
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 09:44 -0400, Jimi Xenidis wrote:
> On May 18, 2006, at 9:01 AM, Maria Butrico wrote:
>
> > You probably know this about the blades, but I just found out
> > yesterday. If you boot xen and it crashes or fails to start linux,
> > after a few minutes, the service processor will notice and reverse
> > things so that slof no longer starts.
>
> IIRC, whats actually happening is that there are 2 Flash Banks, A and B.
> A is the "holy shit I baffed my machine and someone will lose money
> on a support call"
> B contains SLOF.
>
> If the machine goes bad SP forces a switch to A so you can fix the
> problem.
>
> > In this case slof would have to be reflashed.
> I just IM'ed with segher and he says (and he says mxl showed him how
> to do this)
>
> >> go to the managment console
> >> reset -T system:blade[n]:sp
>
> perhaps we can add this to hwconsole?
That is not sufficient; it doesn't work. You have to reflash.
Michal
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