[parisc-linux] Booting to ISL with Linux installed

Björn Bylander bjorn.bylander@telia.com
Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:05:06 +0100


Ok, is there no way to do the equivalent of "conspath" under Linux, through /dev/nvram perhaps?
If not, is there any way I can get the "uxbootlf" image without buying a license for the appropriate HPUX version?

Best regards,
Björn
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Christoph
> Plattner
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 5:17 PM
> To: Björn Bylander
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> Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Booting to ISL with Linux installed
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 

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