On Thursday 13 March 2008 12:23:18 am Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 00:01 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: [OS X lockups and sha1sum failures under linux on ppc mac] > > So anyone have suggestions for diagnosing exactly what component is > > starting to fail? My first thought was cpu, then motherboard, and now > > memory... I figure memory is probably the easiest place to start poking, > > but is there a memtest86 equivalent for PowerPC? If not, I guess its > > memory stick roulette, and on to other hardware from there. Open to any > > and all suggestions... > > RAM is definitely the first place to look. You also might just want to > take the RAM out and firmly reseat it. That's fixed these sorts of > things for me a few times before. > > If you have the original CDs the machine came with, the Apple Hardware > Test CD should have a RAM tester on it. Unfortunately, most of the > hardware test CDs have special builds only for the machine they came > with, so you can't just use any old one. I'd forgot all about that CD... Amazingly enough, despite the machine being as old as it is and having survived two moves, I actually found the original media kit w/o a problem. Unfortunately, the CD fails to boot up all the way. It starts loading up something (little Mac Classic logo in the middle of the screen w/some chips and tools around it), but then dumps me to open firmware, where (3x now) I get the following: DEFAULT CATCH!, code=300 at %SRR0: 0073cf88 %SRR1: 00003030 Oh, and the 3rd time I encountered this was after pulling all the memory, blowing out the slots and putting the memory back in, rotated and firmly seated. Suck. Just found http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/ and will see if that builds/runs/does something useful under ppc32 linux or os x... There's also a non-free (but fairly cheap at $1.39) memtest os x at http://memtestosx.org/. -- Jarod Wilson jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
