[parisc-linux] Getting a 750 to boot

[MichaelS.Zick]

Hi folks,
I also have an old box and no network available.
What I have done in the past...
Taking a tip from the very, very old days of pa-risc...
was use a 100mb, external, scsi interface, removable media disk drive...
(Some of us network poor folks also don't have CD burners)
Plug it into i386 box, copy <whatever> to it, plug it into back of hppa box...

Mike


On Saturday 25 May 2002 02:54 pm, Stacy Olivas wrote:
> Hello,
> I recently acquired an Apollo 9000/750 system and would like to load up
> PALINUX on it.  Unfortunately, I do not have anything other than the system
> (with a serial console).  No documentation, etc.
>
> 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>
>
> I've attempted to hookup a SCSI cd-rom drive to the system, and it briefly
> looks at it before going to the screen above.
>
> 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).
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
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