Here's what I've got:

a HP Apollo 400 series machine, I'm fairly sure the model is a 424e.  

The monitor label has A2094A on it, if that means anything specific.

There are two disks in it, both are C2235's (400MB or so).  One has HP/UX
9.03 on it, the other is fair game for getting this to work.

I'm trying to get these things to boot, using the makedisk utility with a
custom made disk label.  I think I computed things properly, but here's
the actual label file I'm using:

#
# Prototype disklabel - Modify to suit your disk.
# NOTE:  The number of partitions is the `index' of the last partition
# letter, according to the alphabet.
# For example, if your last partition is `e', then you have 5 partitions.
#
# General info:
#	`type' will be HP-IB or SCSI
#	`label' is an arbitrary 16-character name
#	`disk' is a 16-character model number, if you will
#	`bytes/sector' should always be 512
#	partition sizes and offsets are expresses in sectors
#
#	ALWAYS make a partition begin/end on a cylinder boundary
#	(i.e. size and offset evenly divide by sectors/cylinder)
#
# You only really need to fill out:
#	type, disk, label, sectors/track, tracks/cylinder,
#	sectors/cylinder, cylinders, rmp, and the partition
#	table.
#
# Remember, your `a' partition *must* be at least 30744 sectors
# in size, and offset *exactly* one cylinder (value of sectors/cylinder).
# Also, partition `c' *must* be marked `boot'.
#
type: SCSI
disk: C2235
label: INSTALL-1_0
flags:
bytes/sector: 512 
sectors/track: 60
tracks/cylinder: 9
sectors/cylinder: 540
cylinders: 1527
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0		# milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0	# milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

7 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:    61560      540    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16 	# (Cyl.    1 - 114)
  b:    70200    62100      swap                    	# (Cyl.  115 - 244)
  c:   824580        0      boot                    	# (Cyl.    0 - end)
  e:   692280   132300    4.2BSD     1024  4096    16 	# (Cyl.  245 - 1526)



The /etc/disktab file reports this:

##################################################################
#  DISK GEOMETRY AND PARTITION LAYOUT TABLES.                    #
#  Key:                                                          #
#       (Leading field is name -- can be any string)             #
#       ty       Information about the disk (informational only) #
#       ns       number of 1k sectors/track                      #
#       nt       number of tracks/cylinder                       #
#       nc       number of cylinders/disk                        #
#       s0       size of file system in 1k blocks                #
#       b0       block size in bytes                             #
#                        (only 8192 or 4096 supported)           #
#       f0       fragment sizes in bytes                         #
#                     (1K, 2K, or 4K are supported)              #
#       se       #bytes/physical sector     (informational only) #
#       rm       rpm (rotational speed of platters)              #
##################################################################


and this:

###############################################################################
# HP Wolverine 400 ZBR
# Set rotdelay = 0 ms for optimal file system perf (see tunefs(1M))
# Notch 0: 444 (+10 reserved) cylinders at 72 sectors per track
# Notch 1: 567 ( +9 reserved) cylinders at 60 sectors per track
# Notch 2: 535 ( +9 reserved) cylinders at 48 sectors per track
#
hpC2235_noreserve|HP_C2235_noreserve:\
        :No swap or boot:ns#30:nt#9:nc#1527:\
        :s0#412290:b0#8192:f0#1024:\
        :se#512:rm#3600:

Thus, the ns is the number of 1k sectors per track, or 30.  I want 512byte
sectors, so it should be 60 sectors/track, right?

So I write this to the disk with makedisk and boot, choose the boot option
reflecting this disk and all I get is a blank screen.  Does this mean the
video card isn't supported?  Did I screw up royally somewhere?  Is there
any way to boot this thing off the network, instead?  I can't seem to find
any net boot option on the machine.

What more information can I find out to make helping me easier?  Like
finding out more information on what's actually in my machine?

When it boots, I see this:

(hp copyright stuff)

BOOTROM  Rev. 3.11   19 NOV 91
MD11 REV 3.21 1992/02/20.15:57:25
Bit Mapped Video
MC68040 Processor
Configuration EEPROM
Utility chip at 41
HP-HIL.Keyboard
DMA-C0
RAM 16776874 bytes
Digital Audio at 8
HP PARALLEL at 12
HP98265 (SCSI S 32) at 14
HP98643 (LAN) at 21, AUI, 08000917866D
EVRX at SGC slot 0 (Console)

that's basically it... 

Any help would be appreciated.




	Paul
	Intermix/bigdog admin

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