From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.oplnk.net (unknown [216.90.3.140]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518D1482A for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:21:01 -0600 (MDT) Received: from deskbean (216-90-3-162.dsl.oplnk.net [216.90.3.162]) by mail.oplnk.net (Postfix) with SMTP id AF5964E00C for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:41:06 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <003401c0ce96$88726af0$a2035ad8@3beans.com> Reply-To: "Peter Weatherall" From: "Peter Weatherall" To: References: Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HP 710 and miscellaneous questions ... Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:19:09 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" List-ID: I have a C160. When I boot it , I see the following message - >>>> Dino version 2.1 (bridge mode) found at 0xf1600000 The GSCtoPCI (Dino hrev 1) bus converter found may exhibit data corruption. See Service Note Numbers: A4190A-01, A4191A-01. Systems shipped after Aug 20, 1997 will not exhibit this problem. Models affected: C180, C160, C160L, B160L, and B132L workstations. dino_bridge_init: IO_ADDR_EN hasn't been configured. kernel BUG at dino.c:795! >>>>> How can I determine if my c160 is affected ? what's this kernel bug at dino.c all about and is there some Dino documentation available ? Thanks Peter Where can I learn more about ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Stewart" To: "Jeremy C. Reed" ; Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HP 710 and miscellaneous questions ... > You will find the HP710 is not going to work for you at this moment. The 710 > has a ASP bus that has some problems with the interrupt controller (that is > the suspicion of the pa-risc linux group). I have been unsuccessful in > getting it to run. The network card stops working at boot and the scsi > driver will not detect any scsi devices. > > I went one step further and created a large ramdisk (8-9 meg) and tried to > boot and run entirely in the ram disk. Init fails as soon as the kernel > passes control to it. I would recommend using mklinux for the time being, > there is a lot of interest in that machine but the documentation that is > needed to resolve the interrupt problem is not in the hands of the right > people. I would like to be optimistic and say in 6 months or so the pa-risc > linux gurus out there will have a fix. > > mklinux: > ftp://ftp.cirr.com/pub/hppa/mklinux/ > basically you d/l a disk image and the usr.tar, var.tar files and dd the > image to a hard drive on a second machine. > > I hope this helps > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeremy C. Reed" > To: > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 4:27 PM > Subject: [parisc-linux] HP 710 and miscellaneous questions ... > > > > I see "[t]his mailing list exists to serve the developers." Where is > > the appropriate forum to discuss basic usage? > > > > I have an HP 700 Series Apollo Model 710. As far as I can tell it has no > > usable operating system (no HPUX). I can turn it on and connect to a > > series of (CMOS?/BIOS?) prompts and menus via a serial cable. It does not > > have a CD drive. I do not have HPUX to do any cross-compiles. (I have > > installed a variety of flavours of BSD and Linux hundreds of times, but > > always on i386 architectures.) > > > > I want to use Linux (or BSD) on it. The PA-RISC webpages have links for > > documentation, but none appear to explain a basic install. Where is the > > documentation for installing Linux on a hard drive? > > > > The software page (http://www.parisc-linux.org/software/) says "nfsroot" > > is the easiest way; but the instructions say "you have to build on > > HP/UX." > > > > Is there simply a filesystem image (with kernel and userspace) that I can > > dd to a harddrive that I can then use to boot my HP 710)? If so, where is > > it? (And where is this documented?) > > > > Also, I see an ISO image at > > ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/cd-images/; is there any > > (easy) way to convert this ISO image to an image that I can dd on to my > > hardrive (to use to boot)? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jeremy C. Reed > > http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > parisc-linux mailing list > > parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org > > http://lists.parisc-linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux > > > > > _______________________________________________ > parisc-linux mailing list > parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org > http://lists.parisc-linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux >