14 Chapter 1
Introduction
System displays
Table 3 Processor run-time status codes
Message display line
The message display line shows the POST initialization progress. This is
updated by the monarch processor. The system console also shows detail
for some of these steps. Table 4 shows the code definitions.
6 Processor internal register final initialization.
7 Processor basic instruction set testing. (optional)
8 Processor basic instruction cache testing. (optional)
9 Processor basic data cache testing. (optional)
a Processor basic TLB testing (optional)
b Processor post-selftest internal register cleanup. (optional)
Status Description
R RUN: Performing system initialization operations.
I IDLE: Processor is in an idle loop, awaiting a command.
M MONARCH: The main POST initialization processor.
H HPMC: processor has detected a high priority machine
check (HPMC).
T TOC: processor has detected a transfer of control (TOC).
S SOFT_RESET: processor has detected a soft RESET.
D DEAD: processor has failed initialization or selftest.
d DECONFIG: processor has been deconfigured by POST or
the user.
- EMPTY: Empty processor slot.
? UNKNOWN: processor slot status in unknown.
Step Description
