AIX 4.3.3 Install Error F05 1

[chrisw669]

I'm trying to install aix 4.3.3 on a 43P-140. No matter what i seem to do i keep getting a F05 on the led display. I've read some other posts and all i can find is the cd might be bad. problem is i put it in my 6h1 and it boots fine. Am i missing/doing something wrong?

thanks

 

[aixqueen]

Firmware Checkpoint Codes

F00 Manufacturing - Reserved for Parallel port download protocol
F01 Clear the EPOW register 1. Memory modules 2. system board
F02 Determine system bus speed, set ISA advisor
F04 Set memory refresh
F05 Transfer control to Operating System ( nornmal boot )
Action: Try to boot and run standalone diagnostics against the system.
particularly against the intended boot device. If the diagnostics are
successful, it may be necessary to perform an operating system specific
recovery process, or reinstall the operating system.
F06 Jump to set environment or check flash
F08 Run recovery block base memory, test 2k, then set stack

 

[chrisw669]

problem is i'm trying to do a new install on a new hdd.
i'm getting the error from booting the cdrom and can't boot an old os because i don't have the old drive. i have a diag disk but it's for a 6h1 will this work on a 43p? if not where can i go to get a diag disk for a 43p-140?

 

[aixqueen]

Firmware checkpoint appears to be hardware...or problems with the install..

F05 Transfer control to Operating System ( normal boot )
Action: Try to boot and run standalone diagnostics against the
system. particularly against the intended boot device. If the diagnostics
are successful, it may be necessary to perform an operating system
specific recovery process, or reinstall the operating system.


Besides running diags on the intended disk...Have you upgraded the
firmware on the 43P-140 before you did the install on? Did it have an
operating system on it...previously.........

Something else to look at.............CDdrive...??

http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/support/micro/download.html

http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/support/micro/7043140I.html

http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/support/micro/40xcdrom.html

 

[aixqueen]

The diags are for os...so proably .........but the firmware on the cd may be old
as well as on the 43P 140...... You might want to check that first before trying a reinstall to see if it makes it further? It is an IBM disk...? and you don't have a smaller older disk to try? hmmmmmmmm

 

[chrisw669]

Bought the system off ebay to be used as a test system before i put the code on my 6h1. The system was sent to me without a hard disk. I put in a 9gig and tried installing Original IBM AIX 4.3.3 from cdrom. That's where my problems began...

Update::
Installed latest firmware on system - TIG01150
Can't update cd-rom (no os installed)

Still getting F5B (when hitting F5) or F05 (without F5)...

 

[chrisw669]

ugh. after flashing the firmware i get the following on my screen:

DEFAULT CATCH!, code=9e9dbeef at %SRR0: 0000cf80 %SRR1: 00081010
ok
0 >

any ideas?

 

[Yegolev]

In IBM terms, try a 1540. This means strip it down to the least hardware needed to operate. Might want to discharge that NVRAM too, using the paper-clip method. If you can get it into SMS at some point and that all looks good, then you will have ruled that out, so then start adding things like hdisks and cdrom. Never seen that sort of error, though. Possible bad flash?

If you have 4.3.3 diag cd you will be fine as far as that goes.

 

[aixqueen]

What is deadbeef?
When running the debugger (dbx), you may have wondered what the
'deadbeef' is you occasionally see in registers. Do note, that
0xdeadbeef is a hexadecimal number that also happens to be some kind
of word (the RS/6000 was built in Texas!), and this hexadecimal number
is simply put into unused registers at some time, probably during
program startup it is a memory fill of just malloc'ed pages
They are filled with that pattern.

I am afraid that you are in the dead hardware range...that is getting beyond
my expertise...Maybe someone else can offer a suggestion for you.
I am really sorry.....Good Luck.....Last resort, IBM hardware could come out and
take a look...but that would indeed add to the price of the rs6000..

 

[aixqueen]

More Firmware Checkpoint codes...

F5A Spurious IRQ6 interrupt (i.e. interrupt glitch)
F5B Fan failure warning
F5B Transfer control to Operating System ( service mode bootlist )
F5C Clear EPOW register failure
F5D Clear EPOW register failure

 

[aixqueen]

I had one last thought....I assume you have tried on a reboot pressing the
number pad 1 (for ascii terminal) and checked to be sure that the cdrom
was listed as a boot device.............If you can get into SMS I would try that...
Not sure where you are on the firmware....
(firmware is SMS).......

 

[chrisw669]

I'm on the latest firmware that IBM offers. I've cleared up the other errors but still get the F5B error on loading the cdrom. I tried removing all devices not necessary to the install and still nothing. Any other idea?

 

[aixqueen]

and you booted into SMS....which is f1 or number pad 1 (ascii console) when you
were booting...did it allow you to look at the boot list.........? and the cd was there?

 

[chrisw669]

yeah, the cd-rom was 2nd in the boot list after the floppy.
Is there any reason why AIX 4.3.3 for a 6H1 wouldn't work on this 43p-140? I wouldn't think so but have to ask.

 

[aixqueen]

no it should work.............AIX is really aix.........the later versions have more drivers and stuff for the newer machines...but they should be backward compatible...
You could try making it number 1.......instead of number 2........ but I doubt that will do much.......should work.

 

[chrisw669]

Yeah, thought so. Tried moving from 2 to 1, no change. Someone else mentioned that the memory could have problems. Gonna try messing with that tonite. Will see what happens.

thanks

 

[Guest_imported]

I have exactly same problem with F40. If you find some solution, please, let me know...
Thanks...im tryed all of that but....

 

[Yegolev]

1540, reseat RAM and L2 cache as well. If you have more than one DIMM, drop down to one. Reseat cables too. Leave no stone unturned-- er, reseated. You might be surprised at how often a reseating "fixes" these cantankerous things.

From The New Hacker's Dictionary

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/jargon.html:

DEADBEEF /ded-beef/ n.

The hexadecimal word-fill pattern for freshly allocated memory under a number of IBM environments, including the RS/6000. Some modern debugging tools deliberately fill freed memory with this value as a way of converting heisenbugs into Bohr bugs. As in "Your program is DEADBEEF" (meaning gone, aborted, flushed from memory); if you start from an odd half-word boundary, of course, you have BEEFDEAD. See also the anecdote under fool and dead beef attack.

 

[Guest_imported]

I have had this error. The full error is below :

DEFAULT CATCH!, code=de9dbeef at %SRR0: b4e10000 %SRR1:0004300 rmware version TIG01150


I found an update CD in the CD rom tray, removed this and it booted up fine

 

[Yegolev]

Last thought, maybe bad CD drive. Perhaps faulty cable to cd0. Have you been able to boot from any CD at all? Diag CD is bootable.