From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 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 HAA14863 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:06:19 -0700 Sender: rbrad@mailserv2.iuinc.com Message-ID: <3A266BE1.5DA1C812@uswest.net> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:01:53 -0800 From: Ryan Bradetich MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jorge L. deLyra" CC: Steve Moret , parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com, assirati@socrates.if.usp.br Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HP 9000/735-125 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-ID: "Jorge L. deLyra" wrote: > > I have a 735-125 and am able to net-boot it on a custom configured kernel as > > long as I disable the ASP parallel ports. It works quite well using an NFS > > root as I cannot get the SCSI hard drives to mkfs. I was going to try and > > debug it but have yet to find the free time. I can e-mail you my working > > .config for the kernel, or build kernels (tested on my own 735) for people > > if they need them. > > Well, looks like the problem is known, good! But we have a queer little > problem with our machines here, we are unable to boot from the network. I > think we did everything right, in fact, we are trying to use a server here > other machines boot from, it has dhcp, boopt, tftp, rarp, the works. We > set it all up, put the kernel on the tftpboot area, tested all that we > could by other means but, when we try to net boot the HPs, we are faced > with complete silence on the network. No logs on the server, nothing. > > A little explanation might be needed: these are not really native 735-125 > models, they were upgraded from older 720-50 models by card swapping. I am > not sure whether all cards were changed, maybe some aspects of the machine > are still old. The syntax of the net boot procedure in them is strange, > you have to put in the hardware address of the server, which is unusual. > > I _suspect_ that this bios does not use tcp/ip for the net boot, but some > HP proprietary protocol relating to that clustering software they have or > used to have for these machines, in which you ran several stations out of > the disks of a single one. In any case, a listing of what happens on the > console on a net-boot trial goes below. We had a tail -f on the system log > of the server, we had tcpdump listening, but nothing at all shows up... I believe the 735/755 type machines require rbootd to boot from the network. rbootd is available at: ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/tgz/rbootd-2.0-2.tar.gz - Ryan