[parisc-linux] Booting the kernel

Matthew Wilcox Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com
Fri, 2 Jul 1999 00:56:13 +0200


On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 03:41:40PM -0700, Davin Petersen wrote:
> After downloading the goodies available from the FTP site I gather that
> rbootd is the way to spit the linux kernel to a HP box.  Am I wrong?  Is
> there no way of using the ISL?  I tried using the ISL (on my H60), got
> an error message and was dumped back to the ISL prompt.

rbootd is the way for older machines like my 715.  Later models like
the A180 tftp their kernel, I think you need bootparamd set up as well.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
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