Re: HELP: Problem booting Etch 4.0R1 on K250 ... (fwd)

[Rob Sciuk <rob@controlq.com>]

Ooops, make that an HPPA K200 (K200: Kittyhawk - 9000/819) ... I looked a 
little closer at the box, and it says K200 on the back of the door on the 
front panel ... so I guess 32bits was a good guess 8-), still having the 
boot glitch though ... help??

> Booting 4.0R1 on HPPA K250, I get a boot (albeit a 32bit kernel by default), 
> and boot messages end at:
>
> 	Freeing unused kernel memory: 328K freed.
>
> And the rest is ... silence.
>
> Should I be interacting with the IPL, and asking for a different boot 
> command? I'm a relative NOOB with Debian, as I primarily run 'BSD, but I've 
> got a few Ubuntu systems up and running, and would like to run Etch on this 
> (could be) very useful box.  This behaviour is similar to the 4.0R0 release, 
> and I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong ??
>
> Oh, btw:  the Gentoo release boots up to a user prompt, and seems to work, 
> but I don't have the time/resolve to go that route, if I can get Debian 
> working ...
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.