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Operating Systems AIX RS6K B50 Hangs at E140 on Boot Post 302123754 by craigp84 on Wednesday 27th of June 2007 05:33:16 AM

06-27-2007

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RS6K B50 Hangs at E140 on Boot

I've got an RS6K B50, and i've installed AIX 5.3, TL5. It installs fine, the only customisations i make to the BOS are to change the locale / keyboard layout to UK, and to choose not to install graphical software.

I have no video card in this box, and i connect via a serial console (null modem cable) from a sun workstation, it's 25 pin on the sun side, but the B50 only has 9 pin ports so it's 9pin on that side.

The first reboot after install works a charm. I can go through the installation assistant and setup the root password, terminal emulation (vt100) etc.

Every reboot after that will make the machine hang just after the STARTING SOFTWARE announcement, the /|\-/|\ spinner doesn't even get to spin once and just hangs at '-', the LCD shows E140 which is "Loading Operating System". The hard disk light is on constantly, although i can't hear any HD activity.

Any ideas? I'm guessing the hardware's fine due to the install going ok. There is a diag code on power on which translates to either "tampering evident" or "cmos battery dead", i believe the battery is possibly on it's way out as the box does not keep time very well between installs, although it does sometimes.

Cheers,

-c

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ckbcomp

ckbcomp(1)							   User Manuals 							ckbcomp(1)

NAME

       ckbcomp - compile a XKB keyboard description to a keymap suitable for loadkeys

SYNOPSIS

       ckbcomp [option ...] [layout [variant [option ...]]]

DESCRIPTION

       The ckbcomp keymap compiler converts a description of an XKB keymap into a console keymap that can be read directly by loadkeys.

OPTIONS

       -?, -help
	      Print a usage message and exit.

       -charmap  charmap
	      The encoding to use.  There should be an unicode ACM map for this encoding in /usr/share/consoletrans.

       -Idir  Search  top-level  directory  dir  for files included by the keymap description.	This option may be used multiple times.  After all
	      directories  specified  by  -I  options  have  been   searched,	/etc/console-setup/ckb,   /usr/share/X11/xkb,	/etc/X11/xkb   and
	      /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb will be searched too.

       -v level
	      Set level of detail for listing.	level is a number from 1 to 10.

       -compact
	      Generate a compact keymap with at most two xkb groups and two levels in each or only one xkb-group and up to four levels.

XKB KEYBOARD DESCRIPTION

       The keyboard layout, variant and options components can be also specified directly on the command line.	See the synopsis of the command.

       -symbols name
	      Specifies the symbols component name of the XKB keyboard description.

       -keycodes name
	      Specifies the keycodes component name of the XKB keyboard description.

       -rules name
	      The name of the rules file to use.

       -model name
	      Specifies the keyboard model used to choose the component names.

       -layout name
	      Specifies the layout used to choose the component names.

       -variant name
	      Specifies the layout variant used to choose the component names.

       -option name
	      Adds an option used to choose component names.

SEE ALSO

       xkbcomp(1)

AUTHOR

       Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>, <zinoviev@debian.org>

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