Re: OpenBSD 3.5 on HP PA-RISC

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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:36:17 -0400

Hugo,

As you were the only one to reply, I figured I'd just email you, I hope
you don't mind.

It turns out that the dhcpd was running on an older (FreeBSD 2.2.5)
release from circa 1996. By updating to a modern release of FreeBSD for
dhcpd and tftp, all was well, and booting the 712 was not a problem. I'm
just now burning a release cd with the OpenBSD contents, and hope to get
through an install in the next day or so ...

Again, thanks for your reply ..

Cheers,
Rob Sciuk.

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Hugo Villeneuve wrote:

> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 03:23:46 GMT
> From: Hugo Villeneuve <hugo@EINTR.net>
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
> Subject: Re: OpenBSD 3.5 on HP PA-RISC
>
> spam@controlq.com wrote:
> > The last time I installed OpenBSD, was 2.8 on an intel box. As I have an
> > HP9000 712/60 (Bootrom version 2.0 (BOOT_ADMIN>)), I figured it was high
> > time that I put a fresh version on the box, and tried it out again. I'm a
> > little confused, however.
> >
> > While the install doc has info for net-booting, I've had little success
> > (either with rbootd or dhcpd/bootp). The dhcpd sees the request, and
>
> My understanding is that rbootd is for those machine that don't have the
> BOOT_ADMIN prompt. So you can't use it.
>
> So you have to use bootp/dhcpd.
>
> > grants an IP address, but there seems to be a tftpd glitch, and no attempt
> > to boot the lif35.fs is made. Hmmm ... I've configured the host machine
> > to serve up tftpd, and the lif35.fs is available so that should work.
>
> You must provide the filename via dhcp too. This is how my hppa
> dhcpd.conf entry looks like:
>
> host hp712 {
> filename "lif35.fs";
> next-server 192.168.12.1;
> fixed-address 192.168.12.5;
> hardware ethernet 0:60:b0:20:82:1e;
> }
>
> next-server is needed because my dhcpd server is not my tftpd server.
> the filename doesn't have a path because I run tftpd with the "-s
> /tftpboot" arguments (because of my sparcs).
>
> Use tcpdump to see the tftp request. It might help you see why it fails.
>
> lif35.fs contains a compressed bsd.rd. So installation should be similar
> to what you know.
>
> >
> > Be that as it may, I'd prefer to boot from a cd. In the distro, I see the
> > xxboot file, which mkisofs refuses to put into a boot image (wrong size
>
> Those -b -c flags are i386 centric. Creating bootable media for other
> arch is not so easy. See the ${CDROM} target in:
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/distrib/hppa/ramdisk/Makefile?rev=1.5&content-type=text/plain
>
> > for a floppy I guess). Now in browsing the main ftp site, I see a file
> > (cd35.iso) with no information. The FreeBSD file command identifies it as
> > a .lif file. Is that the cd boot segment for creating/burning an install
> > .iso? Is it possible to create a PA-RISC boot cd in OpenBSD 3.5??
> >
>
> LIF is a HP special archive format that can contain multiple member. The
> boot rom expect to find the beginning of a lif archive at block 0 of the
> boot disk (scsi or network).
>
> So it's not abnormal that xxboot, lif35.fs and cd35.iso have .lif file
> signature since they need to be hppa bootable.
>
> I never tried cd35.iso but it should work. Just burn it with your
> favorite cd burning software. I don't know if it require a
> 512bytes/block CD-ROM to be bootable.
>
> > Sorry to trouble the group with this, but I'm not exactly a beginner, and
> > yet I seem to be having more grief than I should. Any pointers would be
> > appreciated!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rob.
>

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