[ixp1200] IXP1200-2505 PCI card booting

[Ning Weng]

Dirk, YOU ARE THE MAN !  

Thank you very much.

-Ning

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Brandewie, Dirk J wrote:

> 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
> > 
>