Now that worked! My firmware is up to date!
Disk has to "raw" unpartitioned. Thanks Grant! I'll now write that FAQ for booting firmware I promised!
BTW. I found an old Syquest Ezdrive to use as a scratch disk, works pretty well since its scsi.
At 10:45 AM 1/3/2002 -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:
Bill Ferguson wrote: > I know this has been asked a zillion times but bear with me. I'm pretty > new to Linux, but familar with many other operating systems. > > I've got debian 0.9.3 installed on a 715/100. Seems to work pretty well. > > My question relates to getting the firmware to a "scratch disk" which > Grant speaks of in the archives (in my case sda1 set to type F0). sdb1, > sdb2, sdb3, sdb4 are the disks where the Linux install resides.
"scratch disk" means the whole *disk*. PDC loader doesn't know anything about partitions. ie if /dev/sda is "scratch", then use dd if=c7x50016.frm of=/dev/sda bs=2k
(Note: bs parameter doesn't do anything since the disk is 512 sectors no matter what we specify....just a good reminder in case we use different media)
> I've tried booting from bootp, cdrom, tape, and now scratch disk and I > can't get the LIF image to work.
*sigh*. bootp, tape, and disk definitely work - I've done all three. Are you *sure* it's a LIF image you are playing with? "lifls C7X50016.frm" under HPUX will display the LIF contents.
Can you compare md5sum output? grundler <511>md5sum *.frm 4d7dc913c507eda18c34e8af29352086 C7X50016.frm
(This is from ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/kernels/715/C7X50016.frm)
grant
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