[ixp1200] IXP1200-2505 PCI card booting

[Brandewie, Dirk J]

The problem here is that the card saw a space bar that told it to drop
out of loop where it was waiting for the kernel to be downloaded and
go to cygmon.

The ixstart script waits to see the login prompt from the kernel booting
on the board.  The script times out if it does not see the login prompt.

If you reboot the system and connect to the serial port that the board is 
connected to you should see the message: "Press space bar to abort host
download mode...."
repeated over and over. If this is the case you should be able to exit
minicom
and use the bootixp script to boot the board.


--Dirk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ning Weng [mailto:nweng at ecs.umass.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 3:45 PM
> To: ixp1200 at CS.Princeton.EDU
> Subject: [ixp1200] IXP1200-2505 PCI card booting
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Sorry for bother but I really need some kind inputs...
> 
> Did I any one have this kind of experience? Plese help  and give me 
> some hints.
> 
> For IXP1200 ENP-2505 PCI card, following the IXA Education 
> Workstation 
> Setup Guide, I did successfully boot the card with the 
> message" Finished 
> ENP-2505 Driver Install..." . But after a few days, when I 
> reboot, this is 
> what I got :
> 
> "....
> 
> Welcome to minicom 1.83.1
> 
> OPTIONS: History Buffer, F-key Macros, Search History Buffer, I18n 
> Compiled on Aug 28 2001, 15:09:33.
> 
> Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys
> 
> 
> cygmon> script "./.ixstart": global timeout
> 
> ...."
> 
> I cann't remember what I exactly did after my first 
> successful booting. 
> But I try to reinstall the software and hardware, but I got the same 
> message.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated!!!!
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> -Ning
>