[Trac #231] BTest board fails to boot

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#231: BTest board fails to boot
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 Reporter:  jg         |       Owner:  mfoster
     Type:  defect     |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  blocker    |   Milestone:  BTest-1
Component:  linuxbios  |    Keywords:         
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 Hi, Chris!

 It's the EC code.  There's a bug where it turns on the power planes
 before you hit the power button, which prevents us from getting a good
 reset.  We'll have fixed code soon.  Thanks for letting me know about
 this!

 Cheers!
 Mark

 Chris Ball wrote:
 > Hi, Mark.
 >
 > Three times tonight our B-Test has failed to come up:  I apply power,
 > push the button on the back to get the single green LED on, but then
 > nothing happens over serial or video.  In each case, the board came back
 > to life after leaving it unplugged for a few minutes, but nothing short
 > of doing that would cut it -- resets or momentary unplugging didn't
 > help.  There didn't seem to be a pattern to when it wouldn't come up;
 > sometimes it was after a reset or warm reboot, sometimes after a halt.
 >
 > Have you seen this before?  I upgraded to the v20 EC code today, so it
 > (or LinuxBIOS) may be responsible, just going on the timing of seeing
 > it start today.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/231>
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