hello folks ...

i got a "old" hppa 712/60 from a friend. theres even a hp-ux on it - but
somehow ... fucked up - it doensnt even boot. now ... i thought about
installing a BSD or gnu/linux on it. i already tried tons of install cds
(openbsd, netbsd, debian, gentoo) - but it turned out that not a single
one would boot with the toshiba external scsi cddrive i use. entering the
BOOT_ADMIN prompt i did a Search scsi which listed scsi.6.0 - the internal
scsi hdd with the borken hpux on it and scsi.5.0, the scsi cd driver ...
doing a Boot scsi.5.0 results in the box showing the "graphical" boot logo
and falling back in the BOOT_ADMIN prompt without saying anything.

whats wrong here? somehow - even after 2 hours of work - i cannot sort it
out :/

would be really nice if someone could help me :/

Dario Ernst wrote:

> hello folks ...
>
> i got a "old" hppa 712/60 from a friend. theres even a hp-ux on it - but
> somehow ... fucked up - it doensnt even boot. now ... i thought about
> installing a BSD or gnu/linux on it. i already tried tons of install cds
> (openbsd, netbsd, debian, gentoo) - but it turned out that not a single
> one would boot with the toshiba external scsi cddrive i use. entering the
> BOOT_ADMIN prompt i did a Search scsi which listed scsi.6.0 - the internal
> scsi hdd with the borken hpux on it and scsi.5.0, the scsi cd driver ...
> doing a Boot scsi.5.0 results in the box showing the "graphical" boot logo
> and falling back in the BOOT_ADMIN prompt without saying anything.
>
> whats wrong here? somehow - even after 2 hours of work - i cannot sort it
> out :/
>
> would be really nice if someone could help me :/


Start reading at http://www.openpa.net/systems/712.html.

afaik, there can be something in setting the blocksize of the cdrom player. If
it does not work at 512 bytes, set it at 2 KBytes or reverse.

Then, recently I booted with the same image from an bootp/dhcp/tftp server,
provided the image you boot can be used as a network boot image:
- the mentioned rom-update was successfull, I found info on this with an other
install (...bsd I think).
- the netboot-image from hppa-debian ended up in a successfull install.


Success,

CBee