Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: boot images/logos/splashes (yet another idea) | Date | Fri, 15 May 1998 11:47:33 +0200 (MET DST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Thu, 14 May 1998 shalon@interlock.dfw.ibm.com wrote: > > From: Marnix Coppens <maco@telindus.be> > > > > As long as we don't use IBM's idea for AIX to show some 3-digit numbers > > on the LEDs to indicate the progress and possible errorcodes. > > "Hello, support ? My RS/6000 got stuck at number 204." > > > > Eh? Why not, at least as an add-on? > > I work on the IBM SP Support Line. > > Those numbers are a *godsend* to us, though I'd like to get boot > > messages like Linux uses as well. The combination would be wonderful. > > Yeah, our most popular number is `200'. But without the manual, it's very > difficult to find out that the machine just wants someone to find the key and > turn the lock. > > > Typical conversation: > > "Hello, support? My node is hanging at 231" > > "Ok. Do you have an entry in /etc/bootptab for this node?" > > > > Conversation without numbers: > > "Hello, support? My node is hanging." > > "Ok, what's the last thing on the screen?" > > "Umm....it says something about sending and receiving packets."
Yeah. So you have to be smart about it. Develop a sense of the level of your conversation partner.
> > "Hello, support? My node is hanging." > > "Ok, what's the last thing on the screen?" "Umm....it says something about Bogomips. Ok, got that, and what's the line below that? "Memory: ... " Ok, Now I want you to go all the way to the bottom, and read the very last line. "Starting kswapd " And below that? "What do you mean below that? You asked me for the last one." Ok. Good.
Might take a few tries, but eventually we'll get there :-)
Roger.
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