Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!lusgr From: lusgr@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu (Steve Roseman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: RT 6150 Model 125 Won't boot from hard disk Message-ID: <10063.25d00f38@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu> Date: 7 Feb 90 17:06:16 GMT References: Organization: Lehigh University Lines: 30 In article , ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Daniel Ehrlich) writes: > We have six identicallty configured RT 6150 Model 125s that are file serving > for a room full of RT 6152s. One of the six 6150s will no longer boot from > the hard disk. When a boot from the hard disk is attempted the two digit > display on the front of the machine will continuously cycle through the > following set of codes: "25 73 20 0c 00 98". After displaying the "98" is a > pause of about three seconds and then the sequence starts over again. > > We have determined that this is some indication that the machine can not > read the boot code off of the hard disk. So, we replaced the hard drive, >... > Has anyone else seen this behaviour in a 6150 Model 125 before? What did > you or IBM do to correct it? Any thoughts, hints, or magic incantations > would be apprecited. > > -- > Dan Ehrlich > Voice: +1 814 863 1142 FAX: +1 814 865 3176 -- I had a problem a while ago (1 year?) where I couldn't boot from the hard drive, but could from the floppy. I don't remember the codes or other symptoms, but I cured it by powering off the machine and removing the battery for a while. Try it, it might help. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Roseman Lehigh University Computing Center LUSGR@VAX1.CC.Lehigh.EDU