On Sep 3, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Jawahar Panchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sep 3, 2014, at 6:24 AM, Thomas Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>> It's old, but most likely not worn-off. >> >> I mostly meant the drive of Jawahar Panchal, of which we >> do not yet know the model name. >> > > Hello again - thanks to everyone for their time and help! This has been great > reading/learning for myself. I will try and get the model name of the drive > this weekend, and will also try with a DVD-RW disc to see if that works. > Hello - apologies for the long turnarounds on this question, weekends is really the only time I get to try/test! :) I did verify that both the C8000 and J6750 have DVD drives (DVD-RW in the former, DVD-ROM in the latter). On the C8000, the SEARCH command in the PROM give the following model numbers: POTENTIAL BOOT DEVICES Path# Device Path Device Type ----- ----------------- ------------------------- P0 scsiA.6 HP 73.4GST373454LW P1 ide.0 HL-DT-STDVDRRW GWA-4161B I can’t really get to the old HP-UX install on the machine, so I don’t have more info on the drive itself - please let me know if more info on this model number is needed! I did check to try and boot with no disc in the DVD-RW drive, and I did get an expected failure from the drive trying to boot - I am assuming the below is expected: Main Menu: Enter command or menu > boot ide Interact with IPL (Y, N, or Cancel)?> N Booting... Failed to initialize with ENTRY_INIT Status = -7 fffffff9 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 0 454e4841 0 0 454e4841 0 1b 51 20 3 51 20 3 .... FAILED. I burned the NETINST image to a DVD-RW (4x Memorex disk, burned at the lowest 2.4x speed), however still no booting on the C8000 - same error on LIF magic. I then realized that the following needs to be followed on OSX for those who have tried to burn a bootable ISO for installation: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5132196 - I also verified that this was not the issue previously, and DVD media is needed. So now I have a successful Debian HPPA boot! Thanks to everyone for their help. Now, right after the kernel finishes boot and it seems debian-installer is launched, the content on the serial console is all garbled! I am using the standard serial console settings suggested for the C8000 (9600 8n1) via the following GNU screen command line on OSX for an HP usb-serial dongle: screen /dev/cu.usbserial-FTBAWB7G 9600,cs8,-parenb,-cstopb,-hupcl Thoughts? Again - thanks to everyone for the time and help - have gotten this far, hopefully the debian-installer piece is straightforward! :) Jay >> Ok. I retract "worn-off" and replace by "age-wise challenged". :)) >> >> >>> root@lsXX:/mnt# xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -list_profiles >>> ... >>> Media current: is not recognizable >>> Media status : is not recognizable >>> ... >>> Media summary: 1 session, 57583 data blocks, 112m data, 0 free >> >> Not being a MMC drive, it might be not suitable for libburn. >> >> >>> So, maybe firmware just checks the "Media status" as above and then fails >>> because it's not "recognizable" ? >> >> "not recognizable" is a misperception of libburn and xorriso, >> probably because SCSI command GET CONFIGURATION is not supported >> by the drive. >> Other commands like READ DISC INFORMATION, READ TRACK INFORMATION, >> or READ TOC/PMA/ATIP seem to work. >> >> One would have to run >> >> xorriso -scsi_log on -outdev /dev/sr0 -list_profiles \ >> 2>&1 | tee -i /tmp/xorriso.log >> >> in order to learn which particular commands do not work. >> I am quite astonished to see a DVD drive with such >> handicaps. So technically it would be of interest for me >> to get such a /tmp/xorriso.log in private. >> (It will hardly help this thread, though.) >> >> >>> root@lsXX:/mnt# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2 count=1 | od -c >>> ... >>> 0000000 200 \0 >> >> Grmpf. At least the problem is not easily reproducible. >> Maybe the firmware complains about bad magic for more >> mismatches than only the first LIF bytes. >> >> The fact that your DVD+RW booted, shows that the firmware >> does not demand a real LIF System Block as of >> http://www.hp9845.net/9845/projects/hpdir/. >> We store the address of the 32-bit kernel file where LIF >> has "Directory Start". >> >> A checkread of full image size from CD-RW might show that >> some other blocks (of 2048 bytes) are bad. >> Or maybe the DVD drive needs some heating by reading DVD+RW >> before it is willing to read CD-RW. >> >> >> Have a nice day :) >> >> Thomas >> > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
