[parisc-linux] Getting a 750 to boot

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 12:54:23PM -0700, Stacy Olivas wrote:
> When I boot the system up it has the following:
> 
> (c) Copyright.  Hewlett-Packard Company.  1991.
> All rights reserved
> 
> PDC ROM rev. 1.2
> IODC ROM rev. 1.0
> 128 MB of memory configured and tested.
> 
> 
> Selecting a system to boot.
> 
> Hard booted.
> 
> ISL Revision A.00.38 OCT 26, 1994
> 
> ISL booting  hpux
> Exec failed: Cannot find /stand/vmunix or /vmunix.
> 
> ISL> 
> 
> 
> How can I get this beast to boot?  It has 2 HD's in it and a tape
> backup/floppy unit on it as well.  It also has a network card in it,
> (a TPT 92 series 802.3 10BASE-T Transciever with Lanview hooked into
> the AUI port on the back).

Probably easiest to netboot it.  When it says `Selecting a system to
boot', press the escape key.  You can then `sea' to find bootable devices.
Note that the 750 is old enough that it uses the rboot protocol rather
than bootp.  Of course, you can try a CD-ROM at this point too.

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