[K12OSN] HP MaxiLife not responding [repost]

[John A. Smith]

Alright . . . I've done a little more digging and Maxilife is a health monitoring system used on HP Kayak and some Vectra series that displays information on a small LCD panel on the front of the box. I think the error I am getting (Maxilife not responding) is due to the fact that there is NO LCD panel on my Vectra, so it has nothing to write the data to!

I don't really want to find out if I can get a replacement panel, because I don't want/need it, or the extra cost. I just want to be able to boot this box without having to hit any kbd prompts. 

Any thoughts?? Any vectra users out there using Maxilife? know a way to disable it?

I'm getting desperate . . . 

-john





----- Original Message -----
John A. Smith wrote:
> >From what I read it does appear that MaxiLife was linked to an HP utility partition. However, I also have come across some info that implies the lm_sensors package works with MaxiLife sensors.
> 
> Has anyone used lm_sensors? Or worked with Linux and an HP with MaxiLife?
> 
> Right now I have k12ltsp 4.2.1 installed and working, but it won't boot without a couple of keystrokes during the boot routine (i.e., F1 to resume, etc.).
> 
> 
> -john smith
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> David Neimeyer wrote:
> > John,
> > 
> > It not uncommon for vendors to create "hidden" partitions that host
> > diagnostic, monitoring, and system restore software/utilities.  So, if
> > you are doing a new install of ANY distro, and do not cater to these
> > partitions when initializing your partition table, you'll
> > unintentionally write over those utilities.
> > 
> > I totally forgot about that while trying to salvage an old dual pII
> > Compaq Proliant recently: the result was that I have to buy a special CD
> > from HP/Compaq if I want to utilize the onboard sensors and hardware
> > RAID. (plus install a Windows OS to use the CD...blah)
> > 
> > I would guess this may be what you are seeing.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
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> > On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 14:02 -0500, John A. Smith wrote:
> > > I bought an HP Vectra VL800 - P4 1.3 Ghz, 768 MB Ram - from RetroBox last month to use as a K12LTSP server. This morning I decided to do the install and am running into a couple of problems.
> > > 
> > > I am getting the following error at boot "0059: MaxiLife not responding Error". From what I can decipher from googling, apparently MaxiLife is some sort of hardware monitoring and diagnostics tool used on the Vectra series. I can't find any reference to this error code or what it means. Has anyone ran across this before? This is the first Vectra I've toyed with.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > TIA,
> > > john smith
> > > 
> > > 
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Chicago, IL 60640-2001
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FAX: 773.989.7329
http://www.breakthroughministries.com