MCP750 and CPX2000 System

MCP750 and CPX2000 System

[Jim Somerville]

Hi All,

I just wanted to tell the community that I have successfully netbooted an
MCP750, as part of a CPX2000 system.  It's a rescue kernel, and I had to work
around the fact that I did not have residual data.  Thanks to Eric Valette,
and transitive thanks to all the developers that he thanked...  now I just
have to figure out how to get a full blown installation happening to disk.

Problems so far:
It finds the NCR scsi controller chip, but ends up timing out on some scsi
command.  I don't know what the command is yet.  With this problem, I can't
get at the disk and the cdrom.

It finds two IDE controllers as expected.  No problem here.

It finds the 21140 ethernet chip, and programs it for MII.  I use ifconfig
to configure it, however RX seems to work but not TX.  Weird.

If anyone can provide help, I'm at somer@nortel.ca.  Hopefully this is not
related to not having residual data....

Cheers,

-Jim




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