[parisc-linux] almost booted a K420...

[Andrew Gaylard]

On 4/12/07, Paul (NCC/CS). <pts at bom.gov.au> wrote:
>
>
> thought i'd have another go at my HP sitting in the corner,
> with the new CD debian-40r0-hppa-netinst.iso .
>
> It seemed to boot the kernel but eventually I got:
> >>>
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 328k freed
>
> FLT  0000Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel Fault
> >>>
>
> It's a HP9000/869 K420 with PA7200 cpu's.
>
> The debian info seems to suggest this should boot
> with a serial console.
>
> Can anyone offer me a direction in which to go to
> from here?
>

Hi Paul,

I'm using a K370 with great success. I'm not sure whether
the Debian install CD will work on a multi-CPU box.  You can
try unplugging all but the first CPU and see if that makes a
difference.  Also, you may have to add "console=ttyB0" or
somesuch to PALO's boot line -- the K classes (and perhaps
a few other boxes) have very different serial hardware.  Oh
wait, I see you have it already.

Sorry this  is a bit vague; I run Gentoo and it was very simple
to boot the install CD.  So if you hit a dead-end, you might
give it a try.

Good luck,
Andrew
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