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[XenPPC] Re: mpic discovery and blades


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?

-JX

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