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From: marty@ultra.com (Marty Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: RT gets hung trying to boot AIX
Message-ID: <1990Nov20.024410.1932@ultra.com>
Date: 20 Nov 90 02:44:10 GMT
Organization: Ultra Network Technologies
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Since my first posting elicited so many responses (thank you all - the net
is really a wonderful thing!) I have another for the list.

(Hopefully my manuals should be here in a few weeks, and will resolve 
 most of these types of questions)

Sometimes (approx. 75%) when I power up my RT, it will get stuck in a cycle
of spinning the floppy disk drive, and never goes to the hard disk to
finish booting AIX.  Other times, it will poll the diskette drive once,
then find the hard disk and come up fine.  I end up power cycling 
(admittedly, a rough procedure on the machine) until it finds the hard
drive so I can get the thing running.

Is there a jumper I can change somewhere to tell the EESDI controller to try
to boot from the hard drive first, then diskette?

As always, thanks in advance!

/Marty

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Marty Lyons, Ultra Network Technologies, 101 Daggett Dr, San Jose, CA 95134 USA
(408) 922-0100 x196, marty@ultra.com, "Home of the 1 Gigabit/Second network"

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Marty Lyons, Ultra Network Technologies, 101 Daggett Dr, San Jose, CA 95134 USA
(408) 922-0100 x196, marty@ultra.com, "Home of the 1 Gigabit/Second network"