[parisc-linux] 755/125 problems

[parisc-linux] 755/125 problems

[Aaron Macks]

So I finally have a viable system in the form of a 755/125(384mb ram, 
internal FWscsi drive and 2 atm cards).  I can get it to boot under 
the HPUX still installed on the HD, and it seems to work(not root 
pw).  I tried booting it off the internal CD with the 0.92 disc and 
it seemed to freeze at the 'Branching to kernel address .....".
Three questions:
Is this common or an oddity with my system?
It currently only allows a net boot off of the ATM cards, either the 
EISA or the slider.  How can I force it to use the onboard 10 base 
T(AUI) or even 10 Base 2?
The other might be slightly off topic, but is there an easy way to 
reset the root pw on the HPUX install?(I believe I have HPUX install 
media somewhere but I'm probably wrong.)
Aaron
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Re: [parisc-linux] 755/125 problems

[Ryan Bradetich]

On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 09:11, Aaron Macks wrote:
> So I finally have a viable system in the form of a 755/125(384mb ram, 
> internal FWscsi drive and 2 atm cards).  I can get it to boot under 
> the HPUX still installed on the HD, and it seems to work(not root 
> pw).  I tried booting it off the internal CD with the 0.92 disc and 
> it seemed to freeze at the 'Branching to kernel address .....".

> Three questions:
> Is this common or an oddity with my system?
The 755 (and 735) are only partially supported at this time.  The
fast-wide disks are behind an outfield card which is not supported yet,
so you can not use the FW disks.  It has been a long time since I
installed the 0.9.2 iso, but I have tested tested the rc1 of the
upcoming 0.9.3 iso on the 755 and it installed fine :)

> It currently only allows a net boot off of the ATM cards, either the 
> EISA or the slider.  How can I force it to use the onboard 10 base 
> T(AUI) or even 10 Base 2?

I have not run into this one yet, and I did a network install of the 755
using the built-in 10 base-T. I will see if I can find an additional
EISA network card to add to the machine and see if I can duplicate your
problem.

> The other might be slightly off topic, but is there an easy way to 
> reset the root pw on the HPUX install?(I believe I have HPUX install 
> media somewhere but I'm probably wrong.)

yeah, boot into the hpux isl menu:
	boot pri isl

when in the isl menu
	hpux -is

will put you in single user mode where you can change the root passwd.

- Ryan

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Re: [parisc-linux] 755/125 problems

[Aaron Macks]

Ok, so the Root pw of HPUX has been fixed, thanks.  I was able to 
unconfigure the ATM card and remove it from the eisa cage, but the 
system still seems not to see the 10baseT AUI adaptor, no lights are 
lit, not even the power one.
As for SCSI, I have HPUX on a FW, but a N for Linux.  Will it be a 
problem to have the FW drive installed, or Linux just ignore it?
Aaron

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Re: [parisc-linux] 755/125 problems

[Ryan Bradetich]

On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 12:34, Aaron Macks wrote:
> Ok, so the Root pw of HPUX has been fixed, thanks.  I was able to 
Glad to hear it :)

> unconfigure the ATM card and remove it from the eisa cage, but the 
> system still seems not to see the 10baseT AUI adaptor, no lights are 
> lit, not even the power one.
Hm... that doesn't seem right.  Have you tried a different AUI adapter?
sounds like faulty hardware somewhere :(

> As for SCSI, I have HPUX on a FW, but a N for Linux.  Will it be a 
> problem to have the FW drive installed, or Linux just ignore it?
> Aaron

Linux will just detect the Outfield Card, but non of the scsi drivers/
disks below it will be probed/detected.  Linux will safely ignore it.

- Ryan

Re: [parisc-linux] 755/125 problems

[Aaron Macks]

>
>>  unconfigure the ATM card and remove it from the eisa cage, but the
>>  system still seems not to see the 10baseT AUI adaptor, no lights are
>>  lit, not even the power one.
>Hm... that doesn't seem right.  Have you tried a different AUI adapter?
>sounds like faulty hardware somewhere :(
I've just tried all of the dozen or so AUI connectors that I have. No 
reaction.  Do I have to configure something int the ISL menu to get 
it to use the AUI connector instead of the ATM or the 10B2?
Aaron

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Re: [parisc-linux] 755/125 problems

[Eric Schnoebelen]

Aaron Macks writes:
- >>  unconfigure the ATM card and remove it from the eisa cage, but the
- >>  system still seems not to see the 10baseT AUI adaptor, no lights are
- >>  lit, not even the power one.
- >
- >Hm... that doesn't seem right.  Have you tried a different AUI adapter?
- >sounds like faulty hardware somewhere :(
-
- I've just tried all of the dozen or so AUI connectors that I have. No 
- reaction.  Do I have to configure something int the ISL menu to get 
- it to use the AUI connector instead of the ATM or the 10B2?

	As I recall, there is a jumper block on the AUI/10B2
board that needs to be switched to change the usage from one to
the other.. It's about a 10x3 block (if memory is serving
correctly.)

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Re: [parisc-linux] 755/125 problems

[Richard Hirst]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 02:34:30PM -0500, Aaron Macks wrote:
> As for SCSI, I have HPUX on a FW, but a N for Linux.  Will it be a 
> problem to have the FW drive installed, or Linux just ignore it?

Should be ok, just be very sure that you know which disk is which
before you start partitioning.

Richard