Re: "No hard drives found" on HP-UX 712/60 (debian_3.0_r0_hppa)
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:31:35PM -0500, bill hendrickson wrote:
> 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?
you might try the debian-hppa list.
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dannf@dannf.org
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