26 Aug
2002
26 Aug
'02
9:56 p.m.
Can you stop the boot process when it is searching for a boot device and
then manually select the boot device and add the ISL option? If you can get
to an ISL prompt then you should be able to boot in single user mode. I
have no idea if older HP 9000 systems have an ISL prompt, my experience is
limited to 9000/700 series systems.
From: "Rumi Szabolcs"
<rumi_ml(a)rtfm.hu>
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Subject: reviving a HP 9000/310
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 01:53:48 +0100
Hello!
I'm currently trying to make an old HP 9000/310 machine work.
Some information about the machine and the status of the
"project" can be found out at:
http://paranoia.rulez.org/~rumi/hp310.html
What I currently need is either a way to crack into the
HP-UX that is already installed on the box, or a floppy
set (== images which can be written to floppies) of HP-UX
that would run on this machine which sports a Motorola
68010/10MHz CPU, 2MB RAM, and a HP9153C 40MB HP-IB hard
disk drive / 3.5" floppy drive combo.
If you have such floppy images, or could help me with any
software, documentation, or information regarding this system,
please don't hesitate to contact me via email.
If I succeed, I'm planning to put a nice webpage together
about the system, with pics, history, infos, etc.
Thanks,
Szabolcs Rumi
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26 Aug
26 Aug
11:26 p.m.
At 07:56 PM 8/26/02 -0700, you wrote:
Can you stop the boot process when it is searching for
a boot device and
then manually select the boot device and add the ISL option? If you can get
to an ISL prompt then you should be able to boot in single user mode. I
have no idea if older HP 9000 systems have an ISL prompt, my experience is
limited to 9000/700 series systems.
Not the hp310, I think; at least not the version of bootloader/secondary
loader and hpux that the hp310 might have supported.
hp310s are about the earliest 300 series models. They didn;t usually
have more than one or two megs of RAM, and I think they maxed out
at about 6MB. Thus, BASIC or other such systems were preferred.
carlos.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org
27 Aug
27 Aug
7:40 a.m.
At 12:24 AM 8/27/02 -0400, you wrote:
At 07:56 PM 8/26/02 -0700, you wrote:
I can't say for certain the the 310 has an ISL mode but I KNOW that all the
earlier 200 series did and all of the 300 series that I'be tried have it so I'm
fairly certain that the 310 does too.
Can you stop the boot process when it is searching
for a boot device and
then manually select the boot device and add the ISL option? If you can get
to an ISL prompt then you should be able to boot in single user mode. I
have no idea if older HP 9000 systems have an ISL prompt, my experience is
limited to 9000/700 series systems.
Not the hp310, I think; at least not the version of bootloader/secondary
loader and hpux that the hp310 might have supported.
hp310s are about the earliest 300 series models. They didn;t usually
have more than one or two megs of RAM, and I think they maxed out
at about 6MB. Thus, BASIC or other such systems were preferred.
The HP 9000 series 200 machines maxed out at seven Mb so the 310 should be able to
handle at least that much. Memory cards are tricky to configure in the HPs. The memory
has to be installed starting at the highest addresses first and then working downward. The
switches on the memory cards set the starting (high) address and use negative logic
(0=true).
Joe
7:40 a.m.
At 07:56 PM 8/26/02 -0700, you wrote:
Can you stop the boot process when it is searching for
a boot device and
then manually select the boot device and add the ISL option?
Yes you can. Press the space bar during the memory test or while it's looking for
and testing the I/O cards and it will display a list of operating Systems on the right
hand side of the screen and will halt awaiting operator input. Each OS will have a one or
two character code immediately to the left of the OS name. You press the two character
code to boot that OS. if you go to the URL that Rumi showed, there is a picture there that
shows a screen just prior to it listing the OSs. The HP-UX systems usually show 1H and 1D
(and often other choices as well). The 1D seems to be a Debugging mode.
Joe
If you can get
to an ISL prompt then you should be able to boot in
single user mode. I
have no idea if older HP 9000 systems have an ISL prompt, my experience is
limited to 9000/700 series systems.
From: "Rumi Szabolcs"
<rumi_ml(a)rtfm.hu>
Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: reviving a HP 9000/310
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 01:53:48 +0100
Hello!
I'm currently trying to make an old HP 9000/310 machine work.
Some information about the machine and the status of the
"project" can be found out at:
http://paranoia.rulez.org/~rumi/hp310.html
What I currently need is either a way to crack into the
HP-UX that is already installed on the box, or a floppy
set (== images which can be written to floppies) of HP-UX
that would run on this machine which sports a Motorola
68010/10MHz CPU, 2MB RAM, and a HP9153C 40MB HP-IB hard
disk drive / 3.5" floppy drive combo.
If you have such floppy images, or could help me with any
software, documentation, or information regarding this system,
please don't hesitate to contact me via email.
If I succeed, I'm planning to put a nice webpage together
about the system, with pics, history, infos, etc.
Thanks,
Szabolcs Rumi
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