[parisc-linux] Getting a 750 to boot

[parisc-linux] Getting a 750 to boot

[Stacy Olivas]

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.

Re: [parisc-linux] Getting a 750 to boot

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 12:54:23PM -0700, Stacy Olivas wrote:
> 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> 
> 
> 
> 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).

Probably easiest to netboot it.  When it says `Selecting a system to
boot', press the escape key.  You can then `sea' to find bootable devices.
Note that the 750 is old enough that it uses the rboot protocol rather
than bootp.  Of course, you can try a CD-ROM at this point too.

-- 
Revolutions do not require corporate support.

Re: [parisc-linux] Getting a 750 to boot

[Michael S.Zick]

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 <whatever> 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.
>
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Re: [parisc-linux] Getting a 750 to boot

[Thomas Marteau]

Hi all,

	I have a 750 in my lab. You can find some pictures there: 
http://hppa.tuxfamily.org/gal/index-750.html

I successfully install this box with 0.9.3 ISO. If you have any 
questions related to this box, mail me.

Thomas.

Re: [parisc-linux] Getting a 750 to boot

[Stacy Olivas]

I'm going to play with it a bit tomorrow and try the Network rboot method to load it (if that doesn't work, I might try the other suggestion of pre-loading the HD on another machine and popping it back into the 750)..

If I need any help I'll let you know..

Thanks for the offer and thanks to everyone who gave me tips on how to get the thing up and running.  I'd like to see what I can do with it. :)

-Stacy

--- Thomas Marteau <marteaut@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>	I have a 750 in my lab. You can find some pictures there: 
>http://hppa.tuxfamily.org/gal/index-750.html
>
>I successfully install this box with 0.9.3 ISO. If you have any 
>questions related to this box, mail me.
>
>Thomas.