Boot-up challenges on a 715/75

To all who took the time to reply, thank you
Progress to date:
1. Set jumper to 512 k sector on the TEAC. 715/75 recognized it as a different model.
2. It spun the disk upon issuing the "bo P2" command, however, i still got the
ENTRY_INIT =-4 message

I will try to do a net boot next

if that fails, I will try to copy onto the boot 715/75 hard drive the necessary files. Which leads me to my next question, which files(s) would be necessary for the 715/75 to boot

Would "lifimage" be enough or should i place "rescue.bin", "linux.bin" and "drivers.gz" on the hard drive

Thanks in advance for your remarkable response.

jack dunn

very good - I'm amazed I hadn't heard about the 512 vs 2k sectors before. But it's been 8 years since I seriously poked at SCSI devices.

The PA I/O Architecture Control Document (aka IO ACD) describes the ENTRY_INIT returns codes. See "Documentation" on www.parisc-linux.org.

Only the lifimage.
You will need two hard disks.
dd the lifimage you get from ftp.parisc-linux.org onto one harddisk and
then boot the parisc machine from that disk. Install on the other disk.

It would be useful to check (via the "execute a shell" option) if the CD is readable by the OS. If so, it can be used as an install source. It's possible the CD is still readable but not bootable because the CD burning SW used might have mangled the .ISO data.

hth,
grant

sorry - it's called "iodc.pdf" on
http://www.parisc-linux.org/documentation/index.html

-4 Unrecoverable hardware error
A hardware error on the module or device prevented the call from completing correctly.
CONDITIONAL. Must be used if hardware errors are isolated.

Sounds like either a problem with the CD or the CD-ROM drive.

grant