[parisc-linux] LAN booting

[parisc-linux] LAN booting

[Christian Weerts]

Hi,

is there anyone who has a running 715/80? I want to build a kernel for this
machine discribed in the nfsroot howto from Martin Petersen, but i don't
have HP-UX anywhere.
If i had a kernel perhaps i could boot the machine over LAN.

Gruss,
	Christian

-- 
http://oldenburg.linux.de

Re: [parisc-linux] LAN booting

[Grant Grundler]

Christian Weerts wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there anyone who has a running 715/80? I want to build a kernel for this
> machine discribed in the nfsroot howto from Martin Petersen, but i don't
> have HP-UX anywhere.

You don't need to have HPUX - note the date of Martin's HOW-TO.
It was posted when we were still using SOM binaries and the linker only
ran under HPUX. You should be able to install from the 0.92 ISO
and build kernels natively.

Or build kernels on x86-linux using the XC toolchain built by Matt Taggart
and posted to the puffin.external.hp.com ftp site. Search parisc-linux
mail archives since May 2001 if you want the full URL.

> If i had a kernel perhaps i could boot the machine over LAN.

Could you mount the 0.92 ISO on an x86-linux box and steal that kernel?
(there are probably several but just try the 32-bit ones.)

grant

Grant Grundler
parisc-linux {PCI|IOMMU|SMP} hacker
+1.408.447.7253

Re: [parisc-linux] LAN booting

[Christian Weerts]

* Grant Grundler <grundler@puffin.external.hp.com> [010813 23:55]:
> Christian Weerts wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > is there anyone who has a running 715/80? I want to build a kernel for this
> > machine discribed in the nfsroot howto from Martin Petersen, but i don't
> > have HP-UX anywhere.
> 
> You don't need to have HPUX - note the date of Martin's HOW-TO.
> It was posted when we were still using SOM binaries and the linker only
> ran under HPUX. You should be able to install from the 0.92 ISO
> and build kernels natively.
I will try, but first i had to boot the machine over LAN, that's my problem
at the moment.
The RISC-Machine tells something like "Error: cannot load IPL, error
detected. Bootprocess failed..."
Perhaps you could help me, so i attach the bootptab and the dhcp-conf. Also
attached are the daemon.log and output from tcpdump. Btw., gorilla is the
server and mirage the client.
I don't know what's wrong. 
On the risc-machine i told him to boot from the lan.<hw-addr-server>.

> 
> Or build kernels on x86-linux using the XC toolchain built by Matt Taggart
> and posted to the puffin.external.hp.com ftp site. Search parisc-linux
> mail archives since May 2001 if you want the full URL.
Ack.

> 
> > If i had a kernel perhaps i could boot the machine over LAN.
> 
> Could you mount the 0.92 ISO on an x86-linux box and steal that kernel?
> (there are probably several but just try the 32-bit ones.)
I'll try. So, you mean i don't need the nfsroot-package named in Martin's
HOWTO?

Greets from northern germany

	Christian

-- 
http://oldenburg.linux.de

Re: [parisc-linux] LAN booting

[Carlos O'Donell Jr.]

> I will try, but first i had to boot the machine over LAN, that's my problem
> at the moment.
> The RISC-Machine tells something like "Error: cannot load IPL, error
> detected. Bootprocess failed..."
> Perhaps you could help me, so i attach the bootptab and the dhcp-conf. Also
> attached are the daemon.log and output from tcpdump. Btw., gorilla is the
> server and mirage the client.
> I don't know what's wrong. 
> On the risc-machine i told him to boot from the lan.<hw-addr-server>.
> 

There should be nothing wrong with booting over the lan.

I did not receive any attachments with this email?

> Ack.

Cross compiling is really not all that bad 8)

> > Could you mount the 0.92 ISO on an x86-linux box and steal that kernel?
> > (there are probably several but just try the 32-bit ones.)
> I'll try. So, you mean i don't need the nfsroot-package named in Martin's
> HOWTO?

You can use it.

If you handroll a kernel with nfs-root parameters 
and setup an nfs share for you root, you
can boot without a disk onto the nfs-root.

What do you put on your nfs-root?:

- The unpacked nfsroot tarball
- sid baseplus tarball (under the debian directories).
- nothing (You get to check if the setup is okay, 
  though the kernel will panic when it doesn't find /)

Cheers,
Carlos.