[powerstation-owners] Problem with PCIe Expansion Card

Pattrick Hueper phueper at hueper.net
Sat Nov 1 16:33:34 MDT 2008


Hi,

could you please post the serial output?

Regards,

Pattrick

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Stefan Nürnberger
<nuernbe at tu-cottbus.de> wrote:
> Yesterday I installed a PCIe x1 expansion card (USB 2.0 and FireWire)
> into my powerstation. Unfortunately it won't boot with this setup.
> Instead I'm dropped to Open Firmware (with my serial terminal at the
> debug port). It says "Alignment Error" and prints the register values.
> This happens while probing the PCI ports. The display is not yet
> detected at this point. I tried with both PCIe x4 slots. If I uninstall
> the card the system will boot fine again. Firmware version is 1.7.0-3.
>
> Any ideas on how to get around this problem? Any OF commands, that come
> to mind? Unfortunately, I don't have any other PCIe cards for testing.
> The card is new and should be working.
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
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