[XenPPC] Re: mpic discovery and blades

[Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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