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Re: Deneb in reboot loop
« on: June 27, 2011, 08:27:18 PM »
Quote from: Heiroglyph;647202
My previously working Deneb is making an A4000T get stuck in a reboot loop.

Even with just a floppy connected, it never reads the floppy, it's an immediate reboot.

I have tried other Zorro cards and the system will boot with them installed.

I have removed all other cards and tried multiple slots.

I have tried ZII jumper, no good.

I have a hard drive that was previously used with the Deneb in an A4000D so it does have the Deneb software installed.

If I disable the ROM with the jumpers, it will boot, is found but there is a warning that it is disabled. It can be written to and shows no error on the write.

I loaded a previously used PIO configuration and reflashed it, but no change.

I loaded the Quickstart configuration (I assume that is the default setup?) and this made no difference.

Help?


Boot with ROM-OFF Jumper (or with the left mouse button pressed or whatever you set in the boot loader config to disable the loading of the FlashRom contents).

Reinstall Luciferin. Really. Perhaps even delete the contents in the old location. The modules that are extracted during the install process from the boing bags are machine dependent. The A4000D has the IDE-driver "scsi.device", the A4000T has the NCR scsi.device. There are more differences, but this is the most important. If you had built a custom rom of 40.69 with RomSplit/Remus, don't use it for your A4000T.

If you are still getting reboots, erase all flash rom content.

If it starts crashing with any single (whatever) rom tag installed, this might indicate a faulty fast RAM section at the END of your memory (which is usually not touched until your ram starts getting full...).
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Re: Deneb in reboot loop
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2011, 10:04:51 AM »
Quote from: Heiroglyph;647402
Good info.

I did use Luciferin yesterday to delete everything and it didn't help.

Do those modules load before the Deneb flashes the screen?  Because I'm not seeing those either.

I'll let you know if this helps as soon as I know.

Thanks


Strange. Try the other kind of bootloader (permanent vs. standard). The screen changes its color on entering the bootloader and then on every successful romtag install.
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