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Mark IV fail to boot - Flashing standby light

Mark IV fail to boot - Flashing standby light

2015-12-23 by Sion Roberts

My Mark IV is failing to boot up.  The Standby/ON LED just flashes off and on no matter how long I wait.
Looking underneath, the power supply has four LEDs.  Number 2 is permanently lit up, Number 1 flashes on briefly then off for a longer period. LEDs 3 and 4 aren't lit up.  Not sure what is normal with these LEDs.
I can hear some ticking and scratchy noises from the DIO-100 and the DMC-100 during power on but then goes quiet after a short while.
Can anyone offer any advice?
Sion

Re: [disklavier] Mark IV fail to boot - Flashing standby light

2015-12-23 by Bill Brandom

It sounds like your hard drive has died,

Bill
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Sion Roberts sioniee@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

My Mark IV is failing to boot up. The Standby/ON LED just flashes off and on no matter how long I wait.

Looking underneath, the power supply has four LEDs. Number 2 is permanently lit up, Number 1 flashes on briefly then off for a longer period. LEDs 3 and 4 aren't lit up. Not sure what is normal with these LEDs.

I can hear some ticking and scratchy noises from the DIO-100 and the DMC-100 during power on but then goes quiet after a short while.

Can anyone offer any advice?

Sion


Re: Mark IV fail to boot - Flashing standby light

2015-12-23 by sioniee@...

Thanks Bill,


I see instructions on here on upgrading to an SSD. If the HDD is dead then I may as well follow the instructions and upgrade to SDD but where would I get the recovery CD from?


Sion


Re: [disklavier] Re: Mark IV fail to boot - Flashing standby light

2015-12-23 by Bill Brandom

Sion,

Yamaha Piano Service may (or may not) make the 3 Recovery CD ISO files available. I have a set of 3 ISO files for version 3.0, however, the last 2 times I have tried to do a Recovery I was unsuccessful. Using the Recovery process is iffy, at best. The Recovery process is not near as easy as doing a simple update.

If you wish, I can make my three ISO files available for download, along with instructions, but I make no promises.

I find the best way to get the operating system on the new hard drive is cloning. However, if your current hard drive is dead, of course, you cannot make a clone.

If you would like my assistance on any of this, lets communicate directly by email, instead of through the Yahoo group.


Bill
Love God. Love People. Make a difference.


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On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:42 AM, sioniee@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Thanks Bill,


I see instructions on here on upgrading to an SSD. If the HDD is dead then I may as well follow the instructions and upgrade to SDD but where would I get the recovery CD from?


Sion



Re: [disklavier] Re: Mark IV fail to boot - Flashing standby light

2015-12-23 by Bill Brandom

Sion,

My email is: bill.brandom03@...

There is about a 20 - 25% chance that the problem is NOT the hard drive. It is also possible that there are other problems, in addition to a bad hard drive.

Bill
Love God. Love People. Make a difference.


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On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 10:58 AM, sioniee@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I really appreciate your help Bill. I'm willing to give it a go with the download if it will give me a chance to have it work over the Christmas break.


How can I communicate with you directly?


Re: [disklavier] Re: Mark IV fail to boot - Flashing standby light

2015-12-23 by Bill Brandom

Sion,

Please be aware - Unless you expand the user partition on the SSD, the Disklavier will only ";see" 80GB, no matter how large of an SSD you purchase.

Bill
Love God. Love People. Make a difference.


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On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 10:58 AM, sioniee@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I really appreciate your help Bill. I'm willing to give it a go with the download if it will give me a chance to have it work over the Christmas break.


How can I communicate with you directly?


Re: Mark IV fail to boot - Flashing standby light

2015-12-26 by sioniee@...

Thanks very much for your help Bill.

I noticed what looked like a VGA output on the DIO box so I connected a PC monitor to it. It now gives me a monitor output so I can see the operating system trying to boot. The original drive boots to a text screen displaying MontaVista Linux logo at the top and then scrolls through a couple of pages of text lines whizzing up the screen as various things are being loaded.

After a few seconds it stops on some HDD errors as follows:

had: dma_intr: status=0x51
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40
End_request: I/O error
EXT3-fs error

Clearly there is a problem with the HDD, connecting the monitor is a really good way of confirming that is the case.

Installing a new HDD has gone smoothly but as it's blank it won't boot.

I created the 3 CDs and the floppy using the image files you gave me, thanks for your help here Bill. Now I have the monitor connected, I can see why I have no joy with them. The floppy drive spins up twice as it should but the system reports 'Not a bootable disk!' when trying to boot from the floppy.

The floppy has all the files on it but clearly needs to be made into a boot disk. Does anyone know how to make this into a boot disk for the MontaVista Linux?

I imagine that the old HDD is partly booting and therefore if I can break out to a command prompt I may well be able to create the boot floppy from Linux command line. I have connected a keyboard and tried pressing a few different buttons but I'm not getting a command prompt although I know the keyboard is working as I can get ctrl F11 to display a different error screen.

Alternatively, does anyone know how I can create the boot FDD from a PC?

Also I notice the ftp site address for the Yamaha downloads is incorrect on the link from their website. The correct address is ftp://54.183.42.154 and the username and password are still both 'disklavier', I noticed this link on these forums a year or so ago, come on Yamaha update your website! The image files and the floppy disk files are on that FTP but no instruction on how to make the floppy disk bootable if your Disklavier is dead!

Ideally they or someone would publish a .img file for the floppy disk as this is an equivalent of an iso and should contain all the information contained on the floppy including the boot files.

I think this is the final step and then I should be up and running!

Thanks for your support everyone.

Merry Christmas!

Sion



Re: Mark IV fail to boot - Flashing standby light

2015-12-27 by ken@...

FYI: There are instructions for creating a boot disk under Mark IV section's PDF folder.on the FTP site. Unfortunately, you need a working Disklavier. 

What software version is the rescue CD's? Ideally it be best if the boot disk was made from a Disklavier running the same software version. However, perhaps a newer version may also work???

I've made boot disks for my Disklavier in the past put them in my safe and I may be able to find one with that same version.  

Otherwise I can create a current version and create an self extracting image file. I have a PC and I'm not sure the image file extractor would work if you have a Mac.So let me know if you have a PC.

Unfortunately, I'm away from my home and if all goes well I'll be home Tuesday or Wednesday and can make and email it to you.


-Ken Ruda

Re: Mark IV fail to boot - Flashing standby light

2015-12-28 by sioniee@...

Thanks for your kind offer Ken.

Actually, I'm getting somewhere with this now. I found a post on this forum from a year or two ago whereby a user created a boot disk using syslinux v2.08 (downloadable free from syslinux.org), all you do is open a command prompt and navigate to a folder where you extracted the syslinux download and type the following command:- syslinux.exe -s a:

Just make sure you use the older version 2.08 as new versions won't work.

This will write the boot sector to your floppy disk. Next, copy the floppy files to the disk from the Yamaha download ftp. It will stop on one of the files as it already exists, choose to skip this file.

This has then created a working boot disk for the Yamaha and it has solved my problems.

I'm still having issues writing the files to the new HDD however. I think this is a compatibility issue with the ide to Sata board I purchased so have ordered a different type from Amazon. Hopefully I will have a working piano when that arrives!

Sion

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