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Blackbird / Re: BMC Fails to Boot

« on: January 14, 2025, 08:27:21 pm »

You don't need any cables. Just ssh into it.

Unfortunately in this case, the BMC gets stuck before it acquires an IP address, so it's not available via SSH.

Thanks to you both. I'll get one of those cables and try the i2cget BMC troubleshooting commands.

I suspect the PSU is the culprit as well. The one I have is 10 years old and may indeed be at the end of its life. However, I'd like to confirm before buying a replacement.

I would replace that decade-old PSU unless I had no other options. They get unpredictably flaky as their components degrade, and doing so will help a lot in your troubleshooting. Best wishes regardless.

Yeah, I've been considering that.

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Blackbird / Re: BMC Fails to Boot

« on: January 13, 2025, 07:23:24 pm »

Thanks to you both. I'll get one of those cables and try the i2cget BMC troubleshooting commands.

I suspect the PSU is the culprit as well. The one I have is 10 years old and may indeed be at the end of its life. However, I'd like to confirm before buying a replacement.

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Blackbird / BMC Fails to Boot

« on: January 12, 2025, 09:15:20 pm »

The BMC of by Blackbird has gotten stuck during its boot process a couple of times lately, and I'm hoping that folks here can suggest ways to get more information about what's causing the problem.

The first time it got stuck, I disconnected power from the PSU for about a minute and, after reconnecting power, the BMC booted normally. The second time it got stuck, however, I disconnected power overnight, but it still wouldn't boot the next day—the Status LEDs just kept looping a green-blue-green–green-blue-green pattern. I left it powered off for five days, and then it finally booted.

I cannot connect to the BMC via SSH or HTTP/S when it gets stuck like this, so that means I'll have to connect to the Blackbird's internal COM2 header, but I'd have to get the correct cable.

According to the Talos II wiki, it requires an DTK/Intel cable. Does the Blackbird require this kind of cable as well? It probably does, but I'd like to check.

Are there any other troubleshooting steps that I can try?

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User Zone / Re: Unable to boot with NVIDIA GT710 installed

« on: December 05, 2024, 07:52:24 pm »

That's good to know, thanks.

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User Zone / Re: Unable to boot with NVIDIA GT710 installed

« on: December 03, 2024, 08:31:48 pm »

Thank you. I'll try the Linux-libre kernel or will install Trisquel. Your success there is encouraging.

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User Zone / Re: Unable to boot with NVIDIA GT710 installed

« on: December 02, 2024, 09:14:23 pm »

Hi Bernie,

Did you ever get the GT710 working in the OS on your Blackbird? I've installed an NVIDIA Quadro K620 on mine, and it works in Wayland on Debian Testing (which started using 4k page sizes with 6.10—maybe they integrated Daniel Pocock's patch?).

Unfortunately, after updating to kernel 6.11.9, the below errors appear after a reboot, and the OS won't load until I force a shutdown in the BMC and power it back on again.

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nouveau 0000:01:00.0: disp: chid 0 stat 00001000 reason 1 [PUSHBUFFER_ERR] mthd 0000 data 00000400 code 00000002
nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: core caps notifier timeout
nouveau 0000:01:00.0: disp: chid 1 stat 00001000 reason 1 [PUSHBUFFER_ERR] mthd 0000 data 00000400 code 00000002
nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: core notifier timeout
nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: base-0: timeout

In your other post, it sounds like compiling a kernel for POWER9 with 4k page sizes and VSX support should work, but I'm hoping to confirm this before I try it.