[parisc-linux] problem with booting after installation

[Grant Grundler]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 06:34:00PM -0700, Perry Cui wrote:
> Grant,
> Thank you for your reply.

You're welcome. Please keep the mailing list cc'd.

> The ISO image file I used is: debian-31r3-hppa-netinst.iso
> I did a search and the boot path for my machine is:
> IDE, FWSCSI.6.0 and SCSI.6.0

Ok. IIRC, On C3000 "SCSI" is the external SE SCSI port.
Is that correct?

> 1. when i try to boot from FWSCSI, it boots into vmunix (there is not much i
> can do here)

Can stop the boot and interact with "ISL"?
I want to know if ISL is still intact on the FWSCSI.6.0 disk.

> 2. when i try and boot to SCSI, it says ENTRY_INIT failed, status = -7

That basically means palo wasn't installed.
Sounds like this is the disk you wanted to install linux on.

> 3. when I boot from IDE, it boots into palo ipl 1.5.

That's the CD-ROM drive.

> I have already run palo and choose the option "boot with this command line"
> which installed everything.
> 
> I am not sure what you are talking about when you say "mount
> the '/' (and '/boot' if it's different) , chroot to that
> and then re-run palo by hand"

This is probably asking too much given your current experience...
don't worry about it (yet) unless we can't get anything else to work.


> What am I doing wrong here???

I doubt you did something wrong since the installer is pretty straight
forward. Sounds like a problem with the installer but it's not obvious
to me what.

If the C3000 has internet access and you have time, it would be worth
trying the "netinst CD" for Debian "testing" installer images from here:
	http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

hth,
grant