On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, bill hendrickson wrote: > I'm a regular redhat/ix86 user, and i'm vaguely aware of HP-UX, but i'd like > to give debian i try (i hear good things!). > > i have an HP-UX 712/60 that i want to install debian on, b/c linux rox and > deb seems to be the best way to get linux on it. I have a Seagate ST345X > (4GB) SCSI hard drive and a SCSI Plextor 2x CD-ROM attached to the HP's > on-board SCSI controller. The HP originally had a 2GB SCSI hard drive, but i > removed it to preserve the HP-UX 10.0 OS. The new 4GB drive is detected, b/c > i can see it at boot time from the admin menu, with 'sea'. This command > lists both the hard drive and the cdrom. So i 'boot scsi.2.0' to boot off > cdrom, and debian install starts cranking. w00t! i get to the point after > keyboard config, and it says "no hard drives were detected blah blah blah". > wtf? i scoured some debian boards on the net and found a few similar > messages. the solutions were to try booting with "vanilla" (no idea what > this would do) or "bf24" (which i guess boots the 2.4 kernel which i guess > might support my 4GB drive? and why would 2.2 be the default kernel, and not > 2.4?). is one of these right for my situation? i'd just try one of these to > see if they would work, but i don't know how - how do i call the install > w/these parameters? after i do 'boot scsi2.0', the install takes right off. The only 2.4 kernel in bootfloppies is bf24, and there's a good chance it's the only one that works.
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