Either that, or a disk drive (ldev1 most probably) is not spinning up.

Denys

-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of John Burke
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 4:50 PM
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Subject: Re:

>
> I moved our HP 3000 s947 from one room to another to do some
> configuration
> changes.  After setting everything up exactly the same, I
> attempted to boot
> the machine.
>
> After waiting several minutes I got the 'Boot from primary
> boot path (Y or
> N)' question and answered yes.
>
> The machine then asked 'Interact with IPL (Y or N)' and I
> answered yes.
>
> Then after 20 seconds I got this on the console:
>
> ENTRY_TEST status = 0
>
> Failed to initialize
>
> ENTRY_TEST status = -4
>
> (then a hex dump)
>
> I have checked all of the connections, reseated the boards,
> twice and still
> get this response.  What does this error mean?
>

>From the November 2002 Hidden Value column of the 3000 Newswire:

Q: I'm trying to get an old 9x7 back up and running and it won't boot.
Booting from the primary path yields:


Booting ...
Entry_Test Status = 0
Failed to Initialize
Entry_Init Status = -4


Can anyone shed some light on this?

A: Gavin Scott and Rich Trapp replied:

Do you have a SCSI terminator in place? [Editor's note: this was in fact
the
problem, no SCSI terminator.]

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HTH,
John

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