[parisc-linux] problem installing on HP735

[Richard Hirst]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:29:15AM +0200, Matteo Boschini wrote:
> 
> Hi all, 
> I read the FAQs and browsed the mailing list, but wasn't able to find
> anything similar...
> 
> I have an HP/735, with an external SE SCSI CD-ROM and serial console.
> I downloaded palinux-0.9-32serial.iso and burnt my own CD (well 2 of them,
> just in case..) and I can not even boot from CD, getting 
> 
> bad IPL checksum
> 
> the CD i have is a Toshiba XM 3301TA.
> 
> Any help ?

Can you read the CD on other systems?  If you can, I'd suspect that
the firmware dowsn't like your CD drive, or there is some cable or
otehr h/w problem.  You could boot the system over the network, and
see if linux can then install from the CD.

Richard