From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from puffin.external.hp.com (puffin.external.hp.com [192.25.206.4]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C934A19 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 02:54:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA04355 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 02:49:23 -0700 Received: from pc117-bre9.cable.ntl.com (HELO rhirst.linuxcare.com) (213.105.88.117) by mailserv2.iuinc.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2001 09:54:13 -0000 Received: by rhirst.linuxcare.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 1886EB007; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:54:35 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:54:35 +0000 From: Richard Hirst To: Chris Moore Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Another 735 hums to life Message-ID: <20010301095435.G2686@linuxcare.com> References: <1010228143459.ZM5008@cancun.rose.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1010228143459.ZM5008@cancun.rose.hp.com>; from cmoore@cancun.rose.hp.com on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 02:34:59PM -0800 List-ID: On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 02:34:59PM -0800, Chris Moore wrote: > After a lot of struggling I finally got my 735/99 up and running. > After even more struggling I got it to boot standalone off its > own internal SCSI disk and make it all the way to runlevel 2. > > I am still having a few problems though. I tried using dpkg > to install something and the process just seemed to hang. I > saw the same thing when trying to compile something - don't > remember what. Does tar hang also? If so it's probably the pthreads problem that is affecting older machines (my 715/75, for example). In theory a new glibc should fix this, but when I tried things seemed to get even worse - wouldn't even boot any more. Havn't tried for a couple of weeks though. Richard