[parisc-linux] Trouble booting 712/80

[Matthew Earley]

"Dighe, Rajiv (R.) [EXCHANGE:CANOI:IO47]" wrote:

>     HP newbie here. I just acquired a 712/80 with 96mb ram & 1gb hdd. I am
> looking forward to helping with linux port effort as soon as I can get HP/UX
> 10.20 installed on this darn machine. so far it refuses t o boot from
> cd-rom. cd-rom is seen as a result of search command issued at boot-admin
> prompt but 'boot scsi.5' just returns me back to boot_admin promt after
> about 5 seconds. boot rom version is 1.6. All I know is that this machine
> was set for netbooting. any ideas?

Is the CD-ROM drive external?  If so, try connecting another device
between the CD-ROM and the scsi port.  I remember something squirelly
about the 712 and the external scsi.

Matt