"No hard drives found" on HP-UX 712/60 (debian_3.0_r0_hppa)
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.
can anyone help?
- b:||
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