[kaigan]

I'm not exactly an old-timer, but I have done this process on my Onyx2 and it's very similar on the Chimera systems. The basic sequence is below, and if you have any questions, just let me know.

1. At the system's L1 prompt before powering the computer on, enter: debug 0x08. This will set the system to boot into Power-On Diagnostics (POD).
   
2. Power the system on, either via the front panel or from the L1 prompt with pwr u.
   
3. Once the system has booted to the POD> prompt, enter the command go cac to enter CAChed mode.
   
4. Type clearalllogs to clear the system's logged configuration state, including errors.
   
5. Type resetalllogs initalllogs to bring the logged configuration state back to the default.
   
6. Type flush to flush/empty the system buffers.
   
7. Return to the L1 prompt (CTRL-T) and enter debug 0x00 to reset the debug switches to their default state.
   
8. Enter reset at the L1 prompt to reset the system.
   
9. See how the boot sequence goes. Hopefully things will work better after this process.