On Aug 25, 2014, at 10:06 AM, Helge Deller <del...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi Jawahr, > >> Hi - I’m in the process of resurrecting some old PA-RISC hardware for fun, > > Great! Both C8000 and J6750 do work, e.g. we use such machines as debian > buildd servers: http://unstable.buildd.net/index-hppa.html > >> and was happy to see ISO images from debian-ports for installation. > > I assume you mean: http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hppa/ >
Yep. >> I tried the discs (burned to cd-rw) on both a C8000 and a J6750 - in both >> cases I get a ‘Bad LIF Image’ error upon attempting to boot from CD via prom. > > Which iso image did you tried? debian-7.0-hppa-CD-1.iso or > debian-7.0-hppa-NETINST-1.iso ? > Are you sure you burned the iso image correctly, I mean how did you burned > it, with which tool? > Maybe the cd-drives don't accept cd-rw discs ? Maybe you could try standard > CDs instead? > > Alternatively, if you have the possibility to boot via network (tftp image: > http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hppa/lifimage) it is the easiest > solution. > I used both the netinst and the full iso images - no dice on either. I burned the images on CD-RW discs, using an intel mac mini and the built in ‘burn to disc’ functionality in osx. I was thinking of trying a CD-R - and possibly resort to TFTP if that also fails - will report back positive/negative results this weekend when I get a chance to hack on this some more. >> I don’t have the full error message on me right now - but wanted to ask if >> anyone had tried these images successfully > > I just tried again the NETINST iso image > (http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hppa/debian-7.0-hppa-NETINST-1.iso) by > booting it from hard disc (not from CD!). > This is what I did: > - wget > http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hppa/debian-7.0-hppa-NETINST-1.iso > - put in a SCSI hard disc which is not used (you can do that on any Linux > box, it does not need to be the PARISC machine) > - dd if=debian-7.0-hppa-NETINST-1.iso.2 of=/dev/sdc > - reboot the PA-RISC machine and on the firmware prompt instruct it to boot > from this disc: > > Main Menu: Enter command > bo fwscsi.5 > Interact with IPL (Y, N, Q)?> y > Booting... > Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 0 > > HARD Booted. > palo ipl 1.95 root@mkhppa3 Thu Apr 17 20:15:17 UTC 2014 > Boot image contains: > 0/vmlinux32 3215722(0) bytes @ 0xbf000 > 0/vmlinux64 4137134(0) bytes @ 0x3d0800 > 0/ramdisk 6363642 bytes @ 0x7c3000 > ... > This worked. > Hrmm… Didn’t try and copy to disc - there is an existing HP-UX install on there that I am going to be nuking, will try this and see what happens as well. >> and what I should be looking for to provide info for debugging. > > I assume you get the "Bad LIF Image" error because firmware failed to load > from the CD drive. > Does it times out? > I believe so as well - it does not seem to time out iirc - it tries to boot from CD and immediately fails to IPL - I will try and get the text of the error back to the list this weekend, it might provide some color. >> Both installs were via serial console per the parisc-linux wiki page. > > as here: https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Debian_Ports_Installation > > Helge Thanks for the response/help! Cheers, J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hppa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2ce228bf-7409-49fb-82f1-b80bb474b...@global-macro.org
