[geeks] Unable to wake Thor

[Phil Stracchino]

So our power went out today.  For the usual reason, tree limbs down on 
the power lines after a winter storm.

We were only down about two hours, but so far I haven't been able to get 
my X4540 back up.  Not even the ILOM service processor was managing to 
boot, and I couldn't see enough to tell what was wrong because the 
screen was garbled and I don't have a serial console set up.  Difficult 
to do when nothing else in the rack has a serial port.  (In fact, I've 
just checked, and not a single thing I have in the house has an RS232 
serial port.)

In the hope that it was just that something got too cold, not that 
something had *failed*, I unracked it and brought it into the house 
proper to warm up.  (The deckhouse gets cold in winter.)  After letting 
it warm up to room temperature I tried it again.  This time, I got no 
display output at all.  I pulled the system controller and replaced the 
CMOS battery, on a hunch.  Still no joy.  I can see it cycling through 
something about once a minute that puts signal on the VGA port (but no 
actual output) and briefly activates the network ports (maybe it's 
trying to PXE boot?), but without a way to set up a serial console I 
can't tell what.  No video whatsoever, but the system controller status 
LED shows green.


Anyone got any ideas?



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   Phil Stracchino
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