From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.goquest.com (mail.goquest.com [63.172.73.8]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id B55274830 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 17:11:14 -0600 (MDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Michael S.Zick To: Stacy Olivas , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Getting a 750 to boot Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 18:10:24 -0500 References: <20020525195423.BE4A636F9@sitemail.everyone.net> In-Reply-To: <20020525195423.BE4A636F9@sitemail.everyone.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02052518102400.00752@localhost.localdomain> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi folks, I also have an old box and no network available. What I have done in the past... Taking a tip from the very, very old days of pa-risc... was use a 100mb, external, scsi interface, removable media disk drive... (Some of us network poor folks also don't have CD burners) Plug it into i386 box, copy to it, plug it into back of hppa box... Mike On Saturday 25 May 2002 02:54 pm, Stacy Olivas wrote: > Hello, > I recently acquired an Apollo 9000/750 system and would like to load up > PALINUX on it. Unfortunately, I do not have anything other than the system > (with a serial console). No documentation, etc. > > When I boot the system up it has the following: > > (c) Copyright. Hewlett-Packard Company. 1991. > All rights reserved > > PDC ROM rev. 1.2 > IODC ROM rev. 1.0 > 128 MB of memory configured and tested. > > > Selecting a system to boot. > > Hard booted. > > ISL Revision A.00.38 OCT 26, 1994 > > ISL booting hpux > Exec failed: Cannot find /stand/vmunix or /vmunix. > > ISL> > > I've attempted to hookup a SCSI cd-rom drive to the system, and it briefly > looks at it before going to the screen above. > > How can I get this beast to boot? It has 2 HD's in it and a tape > backup/floppy unit on it as well. It also has a network card in it, (a TPT > 92 series 802.3 10BASE-T Transciever with Lanview hooked into the AUI port > on the back). > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > _______________________________________________ > parisc-linux mailing list > parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org > http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux