15 Mar
2000
15 Mar
'00
8:04 a.m.
Hi Mike;
please see my replies below:
Mike Ford wrote:
Finally I just got to play with one of my Apollo workstations. Good news,
it boots up, well sort of, and my 1097C monitor works fine. The sort of
boots up is where I am stuck, looks like maybe the second SCSI drive is
flakey (it didn't spin up until I pressed the TOC button on the front of
the console and a boot device search started), or HP-UX is missing or
damaged.
It could be that there is no primary or alternate boot path
defined. It won't spin up a drive unless it needs to.
It tries to run something called 9000/700 and fails.
Yes, it looks like hpux is busted.
Info on the system is
80 MB ram, 2 SCSI drives (size unknown?), and from running the ODE a little
it tells me I have a 203H processor. Its an Apollo 735, and the prompt is
IPL>.
I have four more to play with, but if anybody has some quick hints on how
to procede, show drive sizes, run drive diagnostics etc. email me.
What are the model numbers on the drives?
If you type the ESC key while it is searching for a bootable device,
it will present you several options; choose the boot administration
mode (option "a"). Once there, type "help" to get a list
of available commands. Among other things, you can ask/set the
fastboot flag, and the primary/alternate boot devices. Typing
"info" you give you a summary of harware info.
When you get it up and running, the following will be useful links:
All sorts of precompiled software for HPUX
http://hpux.cae.wisc.edu/
HPUX manuals
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/index.html
Where to get info on Y2K patches:
http://www.hp.com/visualize/programs/y2k/y2k_menu/y2k_upgr/oskit.html
http://www.software.hp.com/products/Y2K/index.html
and over here, you can actually order CD's with the latest Y2K patches
over the web, no cost. They used to distribute the core OS installer
for HPUX 10.20 too , but now the kit only comes with the patches.
http://www.software.hp.com/products/Y2K/cd_info.html
Hardware compatibility guides at
http://puffin.external.hp.com/docs/980723.pdf (9MB) and
http://puffin.external.hp.com/docs/980723ng.pdf (1.1MB)
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Carlos Murillo-Sanchez email: cem14(a)cornell.edu
428 Phillips Hall, Electrical Engineering Department
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853