Trouble booting UP2000+

[Matt Turner]

Hi,

I've got a UP2000+ that I can't get to boot. When powered on, I get
nothing on the monitor or serial console. All LEDs on the board are
green (Table 5-1 in the manual [0]). Speaker is connected, but I get
no beep codes. Video card is installed in PCI Bus 0.

The previous owner said (ignore DP264, he meant UP2000+)

> The 264DP in the large black enclosure has a firmware problem. I always had
> to boot it into the debug monitor (firmware, enabled via switch on the
> motherboard), load the SRM firmware and then I was able to boot VMS. IIRC I
> set the console to RS--232 (check). Maybe you find out how to fix the SRM
> firmware. It's a great machine.

I looked in the UP2000+ manual to find out what jumpers he was talking
about, and evidently they are some combination of pins 1-2 and 15-16
of J29. Jumpering 15-16 is supposed to "invoke the fail-safe boot
recovery," and jumpering 1-2 is supposed to recover firmware. I've
tried 1-2 set, 15-16 set, both set, I still get nothing on monitor or
serial console. Is the RS-232 comment of any significance?

I also read about the debug port (J43/J42) but I can't find any other
information about how to use it. I checked the technical reference
manual as well. [1]

I'm pretty stumped. What should I try next?

Matt Turner

[0] http://www.alphalinux.org/firmware/api/UP2000plus/UP2000plus_user_manual.pdf
[1] http://www.alphalinux.org/firmware/api/UP2000plus/UP2000plus_technical_reference_manual.pdf