I recently aquired a Ps2 tool. Through this forum and the information I have been able to boot it and login. However during the boot the system fails to load the mrp driver "loading failed by unknown reason (maybe board not found" It then boots up to login after hanging on "bringing up the interface eth0" for about 2 min, This may be hardware related as the Tool was once damaged in shipping. The Video card slot was cracked, but it has since been put back in the proper position. Also this is the celeron Ps2 Tool running Red Hat 6.2. Lastly all the lights inside on the board that are lit except the reset (obviously) and pic. The front of the system only illuminates the cd/dvd drive light. Inside on the bottom board the Tool and Drive lights are lit with a red. Any help would be appreciated.
When the list of installed devices is displayed during POST (immediately before the LILO prompt), do you see a device having VendorID=0x104d and DeviceId=0x8047? That's the one MRP is looking for; if it is not found, I'd expect a bad connection at the PCI socket. If the TOOL is set to DHCP, it will try to get an IP address after this message is displayed. Did you connect the ethernet port to your LAN, and do you have a DHCP server running (consumer routers typically include one)? Is this one of ASSEMbler's TOOLs (the one destroyed when first shipped via FedEx, then returned to him)? I remember seeing a picture of the cracked slot, and it looked really bad. May I asked how the slot has been repaired? If there was still a broken wire, it could result in the MRP device not showing up. You could try to place the PCI card into another slot, but I don't know whether the mainboard supports this. By the way: the PCI card is no simple "video card", but actually houses the CPU and chipset (basically, the PC side) of the TOOL's PC side. The baseboard is just used to connect the power supply, PCI slots and PS2 hardware (via the MRP device).
First off thank you Silverbull. This unit was damaged in shipping. However after looking at the damage it is not the same one as ASSEMbler. The crack is far less severe, and extends about 1/5 of the length of the PCI card slot. The card was shoved up too. As for moving the card to another slot, I will try that later this evening as well as follow your above advice.
The card won't work in another slot well, it can cause burning of the traces. I would disassemble, desolder the pci slot and solder in a new one. Learn from my $800 mistake.
I booted the Tool and did not see anything that said VendorID=0x104d and/or DeviceId=0x8047. The slot is currently shimmed into the proper place, and an examination looks like all the pins still line up. However I have yet to do a complete teardown of the system. As for moving the card to another slot- i read the post about it possibly buring out traces, as well as it doesn't fit with with hard drives in their original place. I will upload pictures later of the boot screens and the damage.
mrp problem This is exactly what I saw on the one that got broken in shipping. I think the only real shot you have is what Assembler already suggested. You need to replace the broken PCI slot. That error means that the host card can't speak to the PS2 development portion of the TOOL. The hope is it is just a faulty connection and not a failure of the PS2 dev parts.
Fingers Crossed for you! I wish you luck, as a fellow tool owner. Let us know how things are going, I am hopeful you follow assembler's advice, it sounds the most logical at this point. Regards, npt p.s. Good Luck! :thumbsup:
