[parisc-linux] Apollo 735/99 hangs after booting from CDROM

[Andrew Shugg]

Mike,

Do you have a serial terminal?  Or just a null modem cable and a
"borrowed" Windows PC, perhaps?  You could convert the ISO into the
serial-boot one using the sector0 file from the 0.9 release directory
and see if you can boot the box with your serial terminal or null modem
cable to a terminal emulator program on another workstation.

An easy way to test the original ISO image from which you burned the CD
is to mount the .iso file under Linux (any architecture) as a loopback
iso9660 filesystem.  There are also published checksums to compare
against the .iso file.  You can also check the md5sums of the kernel
images on your burnt CD against those within the mounted .iso file.

(Sorry I cannot be more helpful but I have not yet got the 0.9 iso file
burnt onto a CD yet.)

Andrew.

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