[HPADM] Re: 9000/715 firmware boot syntax

Corne Beerse wrote:
stan wrote:
We are trying to recover a 715/100, and it has been a long time. I have put
the install CD in the CD drive, and it shows up in a search from the boot
firmware as scsi.2.0. I was thinking thta "boot scsi.2.0" should boot this.
But maybe I am wrong.

Anyone know what the syntax here is?

Open Source rules: Start at http://www.openpa.net/ (that came from deep inside my memory ;-) and find your way in the collected documentation: http://www.openpa.net/systems/hp-9000_715.html has a pointer to the reference manual at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/lpv37699/lpv37699.pdf which in turn has a lot of information. There, chapter 3 (around page 3-20) is some boot information listed. You might need to configure your disks/cdrom and put the scsi-addresses in the right position, specially if you use an alternate device.
Sorry, better look at chapter 4, page 4-13 and 4-14. That is what you are looking for!


Come to think of it, not every pa-risk machine can boot from every scsi-cdrom, I recall by head (and from far away) scsi-settings like blocksize that must be altered between 0.5 and 2 KB block sizes.


Succes

CBee



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