From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rhirst.linuxcare.com (pc2-hems4-0-cust95.bre.cable.ntl.com [213.107.176.95]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78BD5482A for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 02:58:32 -0600 (MDT) Received: by rhirst.linuxcare.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id BDA22B007; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:54:13 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:54:13 +0100 From: Richard Hirst To: Matteo Boschini Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] problem installing on HP735 Message-ID: <20010613095413.A16532@linuxcare.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from boschini@cilea.it on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:29:15AM +0200 List-ID: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:29:15AM +0200, Matteo Boschini wrote: > > Hi all, > I read the FAQs and browsed the mailing list, but wasn't able to find > anything similar... > > I have an HP/735, with an external SE SCSI CD-ROM and serial console. > I downloaded palinux-0.9-32serial.iso and burnt my own CD (well 2 of them, > just in case..) and I can not even boot from CD, getting > > bad IPL checksum > > the CD i have is a Toshiba XM 3301TA. > > Any help ? Can you read the CD on other systems? If you can, I'd suspect that the firmware dowsn't like your CD drive, or there is some cable or otehr h/w problem. You could boot the system over the network, and see if linux can then install from the CD. Richard