howto boot test kernel

I have on old 712, I would like to make a try to linux kernel. What did I need and how to setup things for booting the kernel, and maybe giving some help on developpment.( I have other stations/server under HPUX 10.20 where I can put a developement env?)

Thanks in advance.

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I've tried it successfully on my 715/33 using a bootp server. Just use the cvs-linux tree, install gcc-2.8.1 or whatever with binutils and GNU make.
For make menuconfig you have to install ncurses too. Just type make dep boot and copy linux/arch/parisc/boot/Image to the path specified in bootptab and thats it.

Ingo

P.S. dd if=Image of=/dev/rdsk/blafasel works too, but the first
solution is more useful :-)

Ingo Matthaes
HP-UX Net und Linux Support
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Here is how I did it:

1) Uncomment tftp in /etc/inetd.conf

2) Grab the kernel image and put it in /tftpboot

3) Set up a bootp server that also specifes the name of the kernel image to boot. To do this, I used dhcpd and used the dynamic-bootp modifier in the config file.

I also had to re-build dhcpd. It would not work on my system running the 2.3.10 kernel.

But it worked ;)

--Matt