Took delivery of my first
RB1200. The first two times I applied power, it failed to
boot: no initial beep, not even output to the serial port. The third time it booted into RouterOS normally. After / system reboot, it stopped after displaying "Restarting system." and I had to remove & reapply power--which occasionally works, but usually does not.
Overall I'm seeing ~90% failure to run the
boot loader upon power-up or reboot command. I see a slightly better rate if I hold down the reset button to force the default
boot loader, but even that fails to load much of the time. Sometimes the green LED will come on and stay on; sometimes it doesn't come on at all. Rarely, the
boot loader will start but print garbage rather than the "MikroTik" logo, sometimes it says "not an elf header" and tries bootp, then locks up before it finds the netinstall machine.
None of the following measures have made any difference:
- upgrade to ROS 5.24 (boot loader 3.02)
- downgrade to ROS 5.22 (boot loader 2.38)
- downgrade to ROS 5.11 (boot loader 2.37)
- using the reset button to force the backup boot loader
- reducing CPU speed to 666MHz
- format NAND
- force backup-booter loading (from the boot menu)
So... does any of this look wrong (particularly the PCI settings)?
[admin@MikroTik] /system health> print
voltage: 12.7V
temperature: 36C
cpu-temperature: 41C
[admin@MikroTik] /system resource> print
uptime: 7m46s
version: 5.24
free-memory: 501460KiB
total-memory: 516556KiB
cpu: 460GT
cpu-count: 1
cpu-frequency: 999MHz
cpu-load: 1%
free-hdd-space: 29696KiB
total-hdd-space: 61440KiB
write-sect-since-reboot: 207
write-sect-total: 1175
bad-blocks: 0%
architecture-name: powerpc
board-name: RB1200
platform: MikroTik
[admin@MikroTik] /system resource pci> print detail
0 device="00:1:81/00.0" name="unknown device (rev: 192)"
vendor="Attansic Technology Corp." category="Ethernet controller"
vendor-id="0x1969" device-id="0x1063" irq=20 memory=0x80000000-0xFFFFFFFF
1 device="00:1:80/00.0" name="unknown (rev: 1)" vendor="unknown"
category="PCI bridge" vendor-id="0xaaa1" device-id="0xbed1" irq=0
memory=0-0x7FFFFFFF
2 device="41:00.0" name="unknown device (rev: 192)"
vendor="Attansic Technology Corp." category="Ethernet controller"
vendor-id="0x1969" device-id="0x1063" irq=19 memory=0x80000000-0xFFFFFFFF
3 device="40:00.0" name="unknown (rev: 1)" vendor="unknown"
category="PCI bridge" vendor-id="0xaaa0" device-id="0xbed0" irq=0
memory=0-0x7FFFFFFF
[admin@MikroTik] /system resource irq> print detail
0 irq=18 users=L2C cpu=auto active-cpu=0
1 irq=19 users=ether10 cpu=auto active-cpu=0
2 irq=20 users=ether9 cpu=auto active-cpu=0
3 irq=21 users=serial cpu=auto active-cpu=0
4 irq=24 users=pulse cpu=auto active-cpu=0
5 irq=26 users=MAL TX EOB cpu=auto active-cpu=0
6 irq=27 users=MAL RX EOB cpu=auto active-cpu=0
7 irq=28 users=MAL SERR cpu=auto active-cpu=0
8 irq=31 users=MAL TX DE cpu=auto active-cpu=0
9 irq=32 users=MAL RX DE cpu=auto active-cpu=0
10 irq=33 users=EMAC cpu=auto active-cpu=0
11 irq=35 users=EMAC cpu=auto active-cpu=0
12 irq=37 users=EMAC cpu=auto active-cpu=0
13 irq=39 users=EMAC cpu=auto active-cpu=0