[parisc-linux] Booting to ISL with Linux installed

[Christoph Plattner]

The problem you have, is that you may have activated the `autoboot'
mode.
Try to interrupt the autoboot mode by pressing <ESC>. Then you can
disable
autoboot.

But this is not your major problem. The "ISL" prompt after booting a
LIF-IMAGE was a tool inside the LIF-IMAGE. The boot load PALO works
in a different way. PALO together with a recovery kernel is also in
a LIF-IMAGE but there are no tools, as you know from HP-UX to boot
a HP-UX kernel with the command "hpux" or "boot" and there are also
not tools like "IODC" or whatever they were called (I am no HP 
specialist, but I want to learn more and more ...).

So you need to have a LIF-IMAGE stored on a different place or
loaded from net including those HP-UX basic tools. Such a LIF
image canbe found on the HP-UX itself, called "uxbootlf" (AFAIK).

By the way: I am also interetsed in setting my 712/60 to serial 
console. But I heard, it is a problem to setup wrong values here,
as no device may fanctioning then. What have I to do, to restore
the machine to let's say "factory setups" ?

With friendly regards
Christoph


Björn Bylander wrote:
>
> Hello,
> 
> I recently acquired a HP 712/80 system. I've installed PA-RISC Linux 0.9.3 on it and it runs fine.
> I've got one problem though. I don't know how to get to ISL after I installed Linux.
> The reason I want to use ISL is that I want to (try) to make the machine use a serial console.
> Before I installed Linux the machine booted into ISL automatically as the HD was wiped (or at least not bootable) but if I try to boot to ISL now with 'boot pri isl' (from BOOT_ADMIN) I only get to the 'configuration mode' of PALO where you can enter the kernel and other boot stuff.
> 
> All in all, how can I get to the ISL> prompt so that I can use 'conspath 2/0/4.0x283'?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Björn Bylander
> 
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