[parisc-linux] HP PA 715/50 installation trouble

[Masliy Alex]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:41:04 +0200 (CEST)
Tim ter Laak <timl@scintilla.utwente.nl> wrote:

>> >> At first, I tried to install from CDROM. In the proccess of booting
>>the
>> >> following messages were printed:
>> >> ---------------
>> >> Trying to scsi.4.0
>> >> Failed to initialize scsi.4.0
>> >> ENTRY_INIT status = -13
>> RH> Hmm. Was this drive working with that box under HP-UX?
>>     Yes, of course. I was mounted the Debian Install Disk under HP-UX.
>>     But it is old device (August 1993). 
TTL> I have the exact same problem on this hardware. As long as I boot the
TTL> kernel from network, the whole linux system comes up fine. But the
TTL> BIOS won't load the PALO from disk. :-( Throw in the old UX disk, and
it
TTL> just boots.
      I could not exactly understand what does the last phrase mean.
Either I must stop my attempts to install Linux on this mashine or I must
take older distribution version or what?

TTL> I know there's a firmware update for the faster 715's (66MHz and
TTL> up). Could this be a firmware bug? 
       May be,  but how can I find out that thing?

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Маслий Алексей			mailto:masliy@kfti.knc.ru