hppa on a 742

2001-08-30 Thread Martin . Tuerk
Hello everyone, I know this is probably not supported and wont be in the future anyways, but... Well I have a 742 here trying to get linux running on it. I installed the iso image 0.9-32serial on a 1GB disk and the system is booting, if the filesystem is checked. (I can check it mounting the dis

Re: hppa on a 742

2001-08-30 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:47:04AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well I have a 742 here trying to get linux running on it. OK. The 742 is basically the VME version of the 715/Scorpio, 725/Spectra which are, or should be, minimally supported. So in theory, it should work. In practice, there

Request For Information

2001-08-30 Thread josh . winters
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Re: hppa on a 742

2001-08-30 Thread Grant Grundler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried to boot the 742 diskless. It only recognizes rboot protocol, so I > set up the 715 running HP-UX as the server. Now I'm really confused how the > boot sequence runs. HP-UX works as the rboot/bootp server. > I found a lifimage on the debian server which brings th

Re: hppa on a 742

2001-08-30 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 08:06:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Did that, what I'm missing here is where do you tell the diskless machine > that it needs to boot a kernel from a network server? At the PDC prompt, you need to hit escape to abort the autoboot and then get to the BOOT_ADMIN prom

Re: hppa on a 742

2001-08-30 Thread Martin . Tuerk
Thanks Matthew, but sorry my real question might be not specific enough. OK. The 742 is basically the VME version of the 715/Scorpio, >There's an rboot daemon available for Linux; if you run Debian, just apt-get >install it; if not there's one on the puffin.external.hp.com site somewhere. wi

Re: hppa on a 742

2001-08-30 Thread Martin . Tuerk
Hi, thanks, what I'm actually doing is, using the HP-UX box to answer the rboot request, transmitting a lifimage. I have two of those, one that crashes with an HPMC BUS ERROR and one which starts the debian installation, which looks promising, but is not really what I wnat to do. Another probl

Re: hppa on a 742

2001-08-30 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Martin > First of all, you need to specify the machine in the /etc/rbootd.conf file. > Looks like you have this working already, but here it is: > > 08:00:09:35:21:18 guernsey > > Then you need to set up bootp/dhcp. The dhcpd is capable of serving both; > I use bootp. Here's the stanza