[parisc-linux] HP R390 boots ok, log inside

[parisc-linux] HP R390 boots ok, log inside

[Claudiu Carter]

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Tara and i have managed to boot both an R390 and D270, here's the log
for the R390.

Claudiu Carter.

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Firmware Version  38.39

Duplex Console IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 0

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   (c) Copyright 1995-1998, Hewlett-Packard Company, All rights reserved
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Processor   Speed            State           Coprocessor State  Cache Size
  ---------  --------   ---------------------  -----------------  ----------
      0       240 MHz   Active                 Functional            2 MB
      1       240 MHz   Idle                   Functional            2 MB

  Central Bus Speed (in MHz)  :        120

  Model: R390/2

  Available memory (bytes)    : 1610612736
  Good memory required (bytes):    8847360

  Primary boot path:    8/16/5.6   (dec)
  Alternate boot path:  8/16/5.5   (dec)
  Console path:         10/12.0   (dec)
  Keyboard path:        8/16/7.0   (dec)

Processor is booting from first available device.

To discontinue, press any key within 10 seconds.

Boot terminated.


------- Main Menu -------------------------------------------------------------

        Command                         Description
        -------                         -----------
        BOot [PRI|ALT|<path>]           Boot from specified path
        PAth [PRI|ALT|CON|KEY] [<path>] Display or modify a path
        SEArch [DIsplay|IPL] [<path>]   Search for boot devices

        COnfiguration [<command>]       Access Configuration menu/commands
        INformation [<command>]         Access Information menu/commands
        SERvice [<command>]             Access Service menu/commands

        DIsplay                         Redisplay the current menu
        HElp [<menu>|<command>]         Display help for menu or command
        RESET                           Restart the system
-------
Main Menu: Enter command > Search

Searching for potential boot device(s)...
This may take several minutes.

To discontinue search, press any key (termination may not be immediate).


   Path Number        Device Path (dec)        Device Type
   -----------        -----------------        -----------
   P0                 8/16/5.6                 Random access media
   P1                 8/16/5.5                 Random access media
   P2                 8/16/5.1                 Random access media
   P3                 8/16/6.0                 LAN Module


Main Menu: Enter command > bo P2
Interact with IPL (Y, N, or Cancel)?> N

Booting...
Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 1


HARD Booted.
palo ipl bame@noam Fri Aug  4 18:36:35 MDT 2000
0/vmlinux 2349352 bytes @ 0x6f6000
0/palo-cmdline '0/vmlinux TERM=linux HOME=/ root=/dev/scd0'
Kernel: partition 0 file /vmlinux
ELF32 executable

Entry 00100000 first 00100000 n 4
Segment 0 load 00100000 size 1511580 mediaptr 0x1000
Segment 1 load 00272000 size 132368 mediaptr 0x173000
Segment 2 load 00294000 size 86880 mediaptr 0x194000
Segment 3 load 002ac000 size 8192 mediaptr 0x1aa000
branching to kernel entry point 0x00100000
pdc_cons registered !
The Kernel has started...
Free memory starts at: 0xc02dc000
PALO command line: 'TERM=linux HOME=/ root=/dev/scd0'
PALO initrd 0-0
FP CCR was 0x0, will be set to 0xc0
model   00005ba0 00000491 00000000 00000002 77f03bdf 100000f0 00000008 000000b22vers    00000501
cpuid   000001d7
CPUID vers 14 rev 23
CPU(s): 1 x PA8200 at 240.000000 MHz
Searching for devices in PDC firmware... a newer box...
Found devices:
1. UL 550 Lasi Core BA (11) at 0xffd00000, versions 0x2f, 0x0, 0x81, 0x0, 0x0
2. UL 550 Lasi Core RS-232 (10) at 0xffd05000, versions 0x2f, 0x0, 0x8c, 0x0, 003. UL 550 Core SCSI (10) at 0xffd06000, versions 0x2f, 0x0, 0x82, 0x0, 0x80
4. UL 350 Core LAN (802.3) (10) at 0xffd07000, versions 0x2f, 0x0, 0x8a, 0x0, 005. UL 550 Core Centronics (10) at 0xffd02000, versions 0x2f, 0x0, 0x74, 0x0, 0x06. UL 550 Core PC Keyboard (10) at 0xffd08000, versions 0x2f, 0x0, 0x84, 0x0, 007. UL 550 Core PC Keyboard (10) at 0xffd08100, versions 0x2f, 0x0, 0x84, 0x0, 008. UL 550 Core Wax BA (11) at 0xffe00000, versions 0x31, 0x0, 0x8e, 0x0, 0x0
9. UL 550 Wax EISA BA (11) at 0xfc000000, versions 0x31, 0x0, 0x90, 0x0, 0x0
10. UL 550 Wax Core RS-232 (10) at 0xffe02000, versions 0x31, 0x0, 0x8c, 0x0, 0011. Raven Opt. 2D Graphics (Goat) (10) at 0xf6000000, versions 0x12, 0x0, 0x77,0That's a total of 11 devices.
Linux version 2.3.99-pre8 (bame@noam) (gcc version 2.96 20000707 (experimental)0initrd: 00000000-00000000
pagetable_init
On node 0 totalpages: 32768
zone(0): 16384 pages.
zone(1): 16384 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
trap_init
Calibrating delay loop... 374.37 BogoMIPS
Memory: 125696k available
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
kmem_create: Poisoning requested, but con given - bdev_cache
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
kmem_create: Poisoning requested, but con given - inode_cache
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Lasi version 0 at 0xffd00000 found.
request_irq(258, c01ec76c, 0x0, lasi, c7ff9080)
Wax at 0xffe00000 found.
request_irq(263, c01ec76c, 0x0, wax, c7ff9140)
request_irq(797, c01ec994, 0x0, wax_hil_nmi, 00000000)
Wax: HIL Keyboard-NMI registered.
parport0: PC-style at 0xffd02800, irq 536 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
request_irq(536, c01ecac8, 0x0, parport0, c7ffcc00)
Found i82596 at 0xffd07000, IRQ 535
early initialization of device eth0 is deferred
Initializing lasi keyboard port at 0xffd08000...
request_irq(517, c01ae2fc, 0x0, GSC PS/2, ffd08000)
Initializing lasi mouse port at 0xffd08100...
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.3
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
kmem_create: Poisoning requested, but con given - skbuff_head_cache
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
Starting kswapd v1.6
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
sim700: Couldn't get consistent shared memory
sim700: Configuring 53c710 (SCSI-ID 7) at ffd06100, IRQ 534
scsi0: Revision 0x2
Post test1, istat 01, sstat0 00, dstat 84
sim700: WARNING IRQ probe failed, (returned 0)
scsi0: WARNING: target data areas are not dma coherent!
scsi0: test 1 completed ok.
request_irq(534, c01da868, 0x20000000, sim700, c7f8d260)
scsi0: sim700_intr_handle() called with no interrupt
scsi0 : LASI/Simple 53c700
scsi : 1 host.
  Vendor: PIONEER   Model: DVD-ROM DVD-303   Rev: 1.04
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST39173N          Rev: HP11
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST39173N          Rev: HP11
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total.
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.08
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17773524 [8678 MB] [8.7 GB]
Partition check:
 sda: unknown partition table
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17773524 [8678 MB] [8.7 GB]
 sdb: unknown partition table
82596: 6 0 0 at c028cc10
82596: 6 ffd07000 217 at c7ffca00
eth0: 82596 at 0xffd07000, 08 00 09 FD 7A AB IRQ 535.
82596.c $Revision: 1.9 $
Serial driver version 4.93 (2000-03-20) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI end
Found serial #0 at 0xffd05000, IRQ 538
ttyS00 at iomem 0xffd05800 (irq = 538) is a 16550A
Found serial #1 at 0xffe02000, IRQ 793
ttyS01 at iomem 0xffe02800 (irq = 793) is a 16550A
pdc_cons die !!
kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - nfs_fh
VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0)
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
VFS: Mounted root (iso9660 filesystem) readonly.
request_irq(538, c019e908, 0x4000000, serial, c02c976c)
execve /sbin/init c0272008 c0272030
Fri Aug  4 01:33:00 /home/bame/xc/hppa 2000
dd: /dev/zero: Bad address
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
mke2fs 1.19-WIP, 7-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev.
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
1024 inodes, 4096 blocks
0 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
1 block group
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
1024 inodes per group

Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

                Welcome to PA/Linux release 0.1
            (release 0.1 means don't expect much from it!)

In addition to the bootable image, this CD contains cross compilers,
source code, and documentation.  You can initialize a bootable PA-RISC
hard disk from this CD too.  Read /README to find out more.

Since progress never stops, by the time you boot this it'll be out of
date, so check out http://www.thepuffingroup.com/parisc/ for the latest.

Login as a superuser     login: root password: root
   or as a normal user   login: demo password: demo



(none) login: root
Password:


Most of the programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are
freely redistributable; the exact distribution terms for each program
are described in the individual files in /usr/doc/*/copyright

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
# pwd
/root
# cd /
# ls -la
total 213
dr-xr-xr-x   18 root     root         4096 Aug  4  2000 .
dr-xr-xr-x   18 root     root         4096 Aug  4  2000 ..
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         1962 Aug  4  2000 README
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         3678 Aug  4  2000 README.INSTALL
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug  4 00:35 bin
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Aug  3 19:19 boot
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root       163840 Aug  4  2000 dev
dr-xr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Aug  4  2000 etc
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Jun 15 00:10 home
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Aug  3 16:50 include
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Jun 15 00:10 lib
dr-xr-xr-x    9 root     root         2048 Aug  5  2000 mirror
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Jun 15 00:10 mnt
dr-xr-xr-x   17 root     root            0 Aug 29  2000 proc
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Jun 15 00:10 root
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         8192 Aug  3 23:04 sbin
dr-xr-xr-x    4 root     root         2048 Jul 31 16:27 share
drwxrwxrwx    3 root     root         1024 Aug  4 01:33 tmp
dr-xr-xr-x   15 root     root         2048 Aug  3 23:04 usr
dr-xr-xr-x   10 root     root         2048 Aug  4  2000 var
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
cpu family      : PA-RISC <NULL>
cpu             : PA8200
cpu MHz         : 240.000000
model           :
model name      : UL 2w U+/240 (350/550)
hversion        : 0x00005ba0
sversion        : 0x00000491
I-cache         : 2048 KB
D-cache         : 2048 KB (WB)
ITLB entries    : 120
DTLB entries    : 120 - shared with ITLB
BTLB            : not supported
bogomips        : 374.37
# shutdown now -h
Why?
shutdown: halted by ghost:
Couldn't umount pipe: on none: No such file or directory
Unmounting any remaining filesystems...
shutdown: Cannot open /etc/mtab.

Now you can turnSystem halted.
 off the power..gsc.c:gsc_mach cmd 2
.

Re: [parisc-linux] HP R390 boots ok, log inside

[Grant Grundler]

Claudiu Carter wrote:

> Tara and i have managed to boot both an R390 and D270, here's the log
> for the R390.

Tara, Claudia,

Just FYI. I wanted to point out the only things that work under the
R390/D270 (and similar boxes) are sim700 and serial port - bare minimum
to boot. What's missing from the CD is U2/Uturn support. Bob Pflederer
was able to get U2 support working some time after the CD image was burned.

sim700 DMA happens to work since Richard Hirst made sim700 work
on boxes which are not I/O coherent (eg 715/33) by adding explicit
cache flushing code where needed.

serial doesn't do DMA and thus isn't affected.
But LAN and other GSC/PCI add-on are affected.

grant

Grant Grundler
Unix Systems Enablement Lab
+1.408.447.7253

[parisc-linux] still cannot boot.

[Andrew Park]

I must be missing something...
I got a bootable HP-UX installation CD today, so I popped it in my CDROM
and on the BOOT_ADMIN> prompt I typed, boot lan isl.  It still gets
stuck, then I changed the path, so that cdrom is primary and the LAN is
secondary, then typed  boot pri isl, and it comes right back to the
BOOT_ADMIN> prompt.  Am I missing something obvious?


Andrew Park
           
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Re: [parisc-linux] still cannot boot.

[Matt Taggart]

Andrew Park writes...

> I must be missing something...
> I got a bootable HP-UX installation CD today, so I popped it in my CDROM
> and on the BOOT_ADMIN> prompt I typed, boot lan isl.  It still gets
> stuck, then I changed the path, so that cdrom is primary and the LAN is
> secondary, then typed  boot pri isl, and it comes right back to the
> BOOT_ADMIN> prompt.  Am I missing something obvious?

Are you sure that the CDROM is bootable? What type of CDROM drive are you 
using? I'm not positive that just any drive will work. Can you see the cdrom 
when you do a "sea scsi"? If not then either the CDROM isn't bootable or the 
drive isn't working.

Why don't you try to use the uxbootlf that I posted? I know you're having 
problems with bootp/tftp but you'll need to get them working if you want to 
use newer kernels.

In my experience bootp/tftp are a pain for everyone and just require 
persistance to get working. Send me errors if you can't get it working.

-- 
Matt Taggart
taggart@fc.hp.com

Re: [parisc-linux] still cannot boot.

[Andrew Park]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Matt Taggart wrote:

> 
> Andrew Park writes...
> 
> > I must be missing something...
> > I got a bootable HP-UX installation CD today, so I popped it in my CDROM
> > and on the BOOT_ADMIN> prompt I typed, boot lan isl.  It still gets
> > stuck, then I changed the path, so that cdrom is primary and the LAN is
> > secondary, then typed  boot pri isl, and it comes right back to the
> > BOOT_ADMIN> prompt.  Am I missing something obvious?
> 
> Are you sure that the CDROM is bootable? What type of CDROM drive are you 
> using? I'm not positive that just any drive will work. Can you see the cdrom 
> when you do a "sea scsi"? If not then either the CDROM isn't bootable or the 
> drive isn't working.

The CDROM is a 4 speed NEC.  search at BOOT_ADMIN> prompt returns

	NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:501

so it is finding it.

> Why don't you try to use the uxbootlf that I posted? I know you're having 
> problems with bootp/tftp but you'll need to get them working if you want to 
> use newer kernels.
> 
> In my experience bootp/tftp are a pain for everyone and just require 
> persistance to get working. Send me errors if you can't get it working.

We can narrow it down to tftp.  bootp sees the request and replies to
it, but somehow tftp just doesn't transfer uxbootlf.  But it likes
vmlinux (coming from building palo) in which case it transfers the kernel
and gets stuck only at pdc_cons die !!  This is bizarre...
With uxbootlf, I did a strace on one of the in.tftpd process and got

recv(0, 0x804b380, 516, 0)              = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
send(0, "\0\3\0\200\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 516, 0) = 516
alarm(5)                                = 0
recv(0, 0x804b380, 516, 0)              = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
send(0, "\0\3\0\200\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 516, 0) = 516
alarm(5)                                = 0
recv(0, 0x804b380, 516, 0)              = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
_exit(1)                                = ?

While the client is trying to download the image, the server always
has four in.tftpd instances.  Older process times out, then a fresh one
comes a board.  Unfortunately, log file doesn't say much, it only
has

	trying to get file: /tftpboot/uxbootlf

which comes from

	int validate_access (char,int)

of tftpd.c.  I put some debugging message to it and verified that
the function did not return an error.
So any ideas now?  With the same set up (with an exception of boot image
file name) vmlinux (resulting image of doing make palo under linux-2.3
directory) pretty much works, but with uxbootlf it doesn't go anywhere
so far - very odd.
Let me know, Thanks.


Andrew Park
           
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Re: [parisc-linux] still cannot boot.

[Kirk Bresniker]

| 
| > 
| > Andrew Park writes...
| > 
| > > I must be missing something...
| > > I got a bootable HP-UX installation CD today, so I popped it in my CDROM
| > > and on the BOOT_ADMIN> prompt I typed, boot lan isl.  It still gets
| > > stuck, then I changed the path, so that cdrom is primary and the LAN is
| > > secondary, then typed  boot pri isl, and it comes right back to the
| > > BOOT_ADMIN> prompt.  Am I missing something obvious?
| > 

Em, if you're trying to boot from your CD-ROM, why are you typing
a command to attempt a lan boot?  Don't you want to do the following:

BOOT_ADMIN> boot scsi[some address stuff] isl ?

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Re: [parisc-linux] still cannot boot.

[Andrew Park]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Kirk Bresniker wrote:

> | 
> | > 
> | > Andrew Park writes...
> | > 
> | > > I must be missing something...
> | > > I got a bootable HP-UX installation CD today, so I popped it in my CDROM
> | > > and on the BOOT_ADMIN> prompt I typed, boot lan isl.  It still gets
> | > > stuck, then I changed the path, so that cdrom is primary and the LAN is
> | > > secondary, then typed  boot pri isl, and it comes right back to the
> | > > BOOT_ADMIN> prompt.  Am I missing something obvious?
> | > 
> 
> Em, if you're trying to boot from your CD-ROM, why are you typing
> a command to attempt a lan boot?  Don't you want to do the following:
> 
> BOOT_ADMIN> boot scsi[some address stuff] isl ?

I mentioned that I tried

	boot pri isl

After making CD-ROM as primary boot.  It would not take me anywhere.
I just tried all combination of things when everything failed.
Thanks


Andrew Park
           
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Re: [parisc-linux] still cannot boot.

[Paul Bame]

= 
= I mentioned that I tried
= 
= 	boot pri isl
= 
= After making CD-ROM as primary boot.  It would not take me anywhere.
= I just tried all combination of things when everything failed.
= Thanks

Not enough information to help -- no specific error messages, no
specific commands you typed with numbers (LAN IDs or SCSI addresses)
in them.  Please send the output of:

    sea scsi
    path

And the error when you do 'boot pri isl' and it fails.

	-P

Re: [parisc-linux] still cannot boot.

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:58:21AM -0600, Paul Bame wrote:
> Not enough information to help -- no specific error messages, no
> specific commands you typed with numbers (LAN IDs or SCSI addresses)
> in them.  Please send the output of:
> 
>     sea scsi
>     path
> 
> And the error when you do 'boot pri isl' and it fails.

i'm wondering if the problem is that the scsi cdrom he has won't support
512-byte sector mode, only 2048-byte sectors.  iirc, HPs won't boot off
all CD-ROM rives for this reason.

-- 
Revolutions do not require corporate support.

Re: [parisc-linux] still cannot boot.

[Andrew Park]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:58:21AM -0600, Paul Bame wrote:
> > Not enough information to help -- no specific error messages, no
> > specific commands you typed with numbers (LAN IDs or SCSI addresses)
> > in them.  Please send the output of:
> > 
> >     sea scsi
> >     path
> > 
> > And the error when you do 'boot pri isl' and it fails.
> 
> i'm wondering if the problem is that the scsi cdrom he has won't support
> 512-byte sector mode, only 2048-byte sectors.  iirc, HPs won't boot off
> all CD-ROM rives for this reason.

hmm... I should find out.  I do not have the manual to confirm, but
I probably should be able to get a spec from the web.
Thanks for the hint.


Andrew Park
           
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[parisc-linux] getting kernel to load so far...

[Andrew Park]

Just wanted to report my progress publicly.
Last posting to the list was about my SCSI CD-ROM not booting the 
HP-UX INSTALL CD.  Well, it turns out that NECs are in 2048 byte sector
mode whereas HP requires 512 byte mode.  SUNs and SGIs also require 512
byte sector mode.  So I just borrowed a SUN external CD-ROM and issued

	boot pri isl

at BOOT_ADMIN> prompt and it took me right into the ISL prompt.  There
I changed the conspath to serial console.  I did not have null modem
cable (9 to 9 female), but I had a DB25 male to DB25 male cable and
a couple of DB25 male to DB9 female converters.  So I patched them up
and wired two boxes.  I fired up minicom then parisc box, and minicom
just wouldn't show a thing.  After wasting two days on it, I went out
and bought *real* DB9 female to DB9 female serial cable.  I hooked
THAT up and minicom began showing things.

But now I have bigger (I think) problem.  The kernel loading still
gets stuck at pdc_cons die!!  This is displayed on the serial console.
Anybody out there running i386 linux box as NFSROOT and serial console
server, also running bootp with combination of tftp?  Could you please
let me know what the syslog says from the booting of parisc box to
its shell?
Thanks



Andrew Park
           
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Re: [parisc-linux] still cannot boot.

[Andrew Park]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Paul Bame wrote:

> Not enough information to help -- no specific error messages, no
> specific commands you typed with numbers (LAN IDs or SCSI addresses)
> in them.  Please send the output of:
> 
>     sea scsi
>     path
> 
> And the error when you do 'boot pri isl' and it fails.

search scsi yields

	scsi.5.0	NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:501
	scsi.3.0	MAXTOR LXT-2135 SUN0207

I change 'path' around a bit (when I did 'boot pri isl', primary
boot path was set at scsi.5.0), but at the moment it's

	Primary boot path:	lan.000000-000000.0.0
	Alternate boot path:	scsi.5.0

There are no error messages produced.  It just comes right back to
BOOT_ADMIN> prompt.
Thanks


Andrew Park
           
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