Product

Platform

F50 - Wildcat

Operating system

IBM® AIX® 4.2.1, 4.3.3, 5.2

Symptoms

Cannot access the SMS on the F50 while trying to initiate a Brisque cold start.

Cause

Solution

1. Make sure serial #1 is defined on the F50 /Baud rate set at 9600.
   The following should be the default settings for tty0:
   

   [TOP]	[Entry Fields]
   TTY	tty0
   TTY type	tty
   TTY interface	rs232
   Description	Asynchronous Terminal
   Status	Available
   Location	01-S1-00-00
   Parent adapter	sa0
   PORT number	[0]	+
   Enable LOGIN	disable	+
   BAUDrate	[9600]	+
   PARITY	[none]	+
   BITS per character	[8]	+
   Number of STOP BITS	[1]	+
   TIME before advancing to next port setting	[0]	+
   TERMINALtype	[dumb]	+

2. Connect a laptop via the serial port to the serial #1 on the F50 using the RS232 female to female cable.
3. Shutdown the F50 completely. OK appears on the LCD panel
4. Press Enter on your PC. The service processor's menu appears.
5. Select #2 System Power Control. Press Enter.
6. Select #4 Power-On System. Press Enter.  
   The machine at this point will start the POST (Power On Self Test), it will show the icons as text. 
7. Press 1 before the last word (NOT F1) on your laptop to get to the SMS in text mode.
8. Select #3 Utilities.
9. Select #8 Select Console.
10. You will then be prompted to press 0 to define this terminal as console and than on your Graphics monitor press 2 'to select this monitor'.

IMPORTANT: Press 2. DON'T press 0.

11. Press 2. The SMS starts on your graphic monitor.
12. Disconnect the laptop from the serial port  and continue with the cold start.

Solution 2: If Solution 1 did not work

1. Unplug the Mouse Connector from the Brisque.
2. Power on the Brisque and wait until you get the Login.
3. Power off the Brisque and reconnect the mouse connector.
4. Power on the Brisque and wait until you see E1DC on the LCD.
5. A white screen appears with a message to press 2 or 3 in the keyboard to continue. The SMS menu then appears.

Solution 3: If above solutions did not work

1. Shut down the system.
2. Unplug the power cord, and remove the battery for 10 minutes.
3. Put the battery back in, and power on the system.
   The system power ups to E1DC on the LED display, but no image appears on the monitor.
4. Press 2 and a few seconds later the SMS menu and PowerPC logo appear.

The system was successful in detecting the boot device. It seems that there was a corruption in the startup information, and the corruption was erased when the power was removed.

Technical contact(s)

Lev Weissman

Submitted by

David Engleman

Date submitted

05 Mar 2001