From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA01137 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:48:16 -0600 Message-ID: <19990928144846.10298.rocketmail@send205.yahoomail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 07:48:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Ulrich Strelow To: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [parisc-linux] Booting from tape List-ID: I know that this is extremely low priority but... I have tried to boot the linux kernel from a SCSI DDS tape (copied via dd if=Image of=/dev/rmt/0m bs=512). The same kernel (cvs tree from today) boots sucessfully via rbootd on my 715/33. Here is the console log: (c) Copyright Hewlett-Packard Company, 1991, 1992 Portions of this code are (c) Copyright Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, 91, 92 PDC ROM rev. 1.4 IODC ROM rev. 1.2 48 MB of memory have been configured. Selecting a system to boot. To stop selection process, press and hold the ESCAPE key. Selection process stopped. Searching for Potential Boot Devices. To terminate search, press and hold the ESCAPE key. Device Selection Device Path Device Type ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- P0 scsi.6.0 HP C3324A P1 scsi.3.0 HP C2490AM P2 scsi.0.0 HP HP35480A b) Boot from specified device s) Search for bootable devices a) Enter Boot Administration mode x) Exit and continue boot sequence ?) Help Select from menu: b p2 Trying scsi.0.0 Boot path initialized. Attempting to load IPL. Failed I/O operation with scsi.0.0 ENTRY_IO status = -10 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004F04 000000FF FF0009BF 00000000 800100DC 00000000 0025F000 00000400 98080000 00000000 00008C60 00000000 000000FF 00000000 00000000 00000000 Searching for Potential Boot Devices. Should this work or is this a current limitation ? Ulrich __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com