[parisc-linux] HP 9000 Visualize C180 Workstation display does not appear.

[parisc-linux] HP 9000 Visualize C180 Workstation display does not appear.

[Prakash Shenoy]

Hi!

I recently bought a HP 9000 Visualize C180 workstation from a vendor on eBay
and EVC to VGA Video Adapter Cable from another vendor. Both claim that Non
DOA on arrival.

The workstation appears to boot properly but no display appears. Has any one
come across this situation.

Please help.

Best Regards
pms

[parisc-linux] HP 9000 Visualize C180 Workstation display does not appear.

[Prakash Shenoy]

Hi!

I recently bought a HP 9000 Visualize C180 workstation from a vendor on eBay
and EVC to VGA Video Adapter Cable from another vendor. Both claim that Non
DOA on arrival.

The workstation appears to boot properly but no display appears. Has any one
come across this situation.

Please help.

Best Regards
pms

Re: [parisc-linux] HP 9000 Visualize C180 Workstation display does not appear.

[James Morrison]

"Prakash Shenoy" <mpshenoy@vsnl.com> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> I recently bought a HP 9000 Visualize C180 workstation from a vendor on eBay
> and EVC to VGA Video Adapter Cable from another vendor. Both claim that Non
> DOA on arrival.
> 
> The workstation appears to boot properly but no display appears. Has any one
> come across this situation.
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Best Regards
> pms

 Do you have a keyboard plugged in?

Jim

Re: [parisc-linux] HP 9000 Visualize C180 Workstation display does not appear.

[Grant Grundler]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:06:35PM -0500, Prakash Shenoy wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I recently bought a HP 9000 Visualize C180 workstation from a vendor on eBay
> and EVC to VGA Video Adapter Cable from another vendor. Both claim that Non
> DOA on arrival.
> 
> The workstation appears to boot properly but no display appears. Has any one
> come across this situation.

Have you tried hitting <tab> key at power up?
That should let you cycle through the various supported
graphics modes.

Have you tried with a serial console?
disconnect the keyboard before doing this.

This is a FAQ but it's not in the parisc-linux FAQ.
If someone has a moment to submit a patch against
cvs.parisc-linux.org's web/src/faq/index.x I'll be
happy to edit/submit it.

thanks,
grant

Re: [parisc-linux] HP 9000 Visualize C180 Workstation display does not appear.

[mpshenoy]

Yes. I have PS/2 keyboard and a mouse plugged in.



----- Original Message -----
From: James Morrison <ja2morri@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:20 pm
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HP 9000 Visualize C180 Workstation display does not appear.

> 
> "Prakash Shenoy" <mpshenoy@vsnl.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I recently bought a HP 9000 Visualize C180 workstation from a 
> vendor on eBay
> > and EVC to VGA Video Adapter Cable from another vendor. Both 
> claim that Non
> > DOA on arrival.
> > 
> > The workstation appears to boot properly but no display appears. 
> Has any one
> > come across this situation.
> > 
> > Please help.
> > 
> > Best Regards
> > pms
> 
> Do you have a keyboard plugged in?
> 
> Jim
> 
> 

[parisc-linux] HP 9000 Visualize C180 Workstation display does not appear.

[Prakash Shenoy]

Thanks. Using tab key I could sucessfully bring the display up.
I also installed Debian 2.4 using net-iso
(palinux-2.4.21-pa6-20030718-netinst.iso).
The installation gets completed without any problem but the system does not
come up after
reboot.

I have two SCSI hard disks on the workstation and debian installed on drive
0. The system
stops at ISL prompt.

Please help.

Prakash


On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:06:35PM -0500, Prakash Shenoy wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I recently bought a HP 9000 Visualize C180 workstation from a vendor on
eBay
> and EVC to VGA Video Adapter Cable from another vendor. Both claim that
Non
> DOA on arrival.
>
> The workstation appears to boot properly but no display appears. Has any
one
> come across this situation.

Have you tried hitting <tab> key at power up?
That should let you cycle through the various supported
graphics modes.

Have you tried with a serial console?
disconnect the keyboard before doing this.

This is a FAQ but it's not in the parisc-linux FAQ.
If someone has a moment to submit a patch against
cvs.parisc-linux.org's web/src/faq/index.x I'll be
happy to edit/submit it.

thanks,
grant

Re: [parisc-linux] HP 9000 Visualize C180 Workstation display does not appear.

[Grant Grundler]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:47:59PM -0500, Prakash Shenoy wrote:
> I have two SCSI hard disks on the workstation and debian installed on drive
> 0. The system stops at ISL prompt.

If it stops at the ISL prompt, it means the system is autobooting
the "HPUX" disk. Reset the box,  interrupt the autoboot, then
set the primary boot path to "drive 0" (use the proper HW path).
And then boot from that same path (eg "bo fwscsi.0")

grant

RE: [parisc-linux] HP 9000 Visualize C180 Workstation display does not appear.

[Prakash Shenoy]

Hi!

Thanks for all the help. Sorry to bother you again.
I tried

	bo fwscsi.6.0.

I get this error message:

ISL booting hp/ux.

exec failed: cannot find /stand/vmunix or /vmunix.

Please note that I have formatted both the hard disks and installed debian
on fwscsi.6.0.
What may be wrong here?

Prakash




-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Grundler [mailto:grundler@parisc-linux.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:52 PM
To: Prakash Shenoy
Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HP 9000 Visualize C180 Workstation display
does not appear.


On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:47:59PM -0500, Prakash Shenoy wrote:
> I have two SCSI hard disks on the workstation and debian installed on
drive
> 0. The system stops at ISL prompt.

If it stops at the ISL prompt, it means the system is autobooting
the "HPUX" disk. Reset the box,  interrupt the autoboot, then
set the primary boot path to "drive 0" (use the proper HW path).
And then boot from that same path (eg "bo fwscsi.0")

grant

Re: [parisc-linux] HP 9000 Visualize C180 Workstation display does not appear.

[Grant Grundler]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:37:22PM -0500, Prakash Shenoy wrote:
> Thanks for all the help. Sorry to bother you again.

np

> I tried
> 
> 	bo fwscsi.6.0.
> 
> I get this error message:
> 
> ISL booting hp/ux.
> 
> exec failed: cannot find /stand/vmunix or /vmunix.

If ISL is still present, it means the boot blocks from HPUX are
still intact. palo should normally overwrite those.

> Please note that I have formatted both the hard disks and 

Low level SCSI format?
I don't think so.

> installed debian on fwscsi.6.0.
> What may be wrong here?

palo was probably invoked against the wrong disk or not invoked at all.
>From the Debian 3.0 install menu, you did "Make System bootable" step?

If you have both fwscsi.5.0 and fwscsi.6.0 present, linux
will find fwscsi.5.0 first and "name" it /dev/sda.
/dev/sdb will be fwscsi.6.0.

HPUX finds fwscsi.6.0 first and name it something like /dev/dsk/c0t6d0.
And thus until told otherwise, firmware will attempt to boot the HPUX disk
by default.

grant