Subject: HP400s can't boot from HPIB drives?
To: None <port-hp300@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Michael Wolfson <mbw@fatmac.ee.cornell.edu>
List: port-hp300
Date: 07/26/1997 17:57:53
I just inherited an HP400s, and I'm trying to run NetBSD on it.  I've got
a fully configured and working system on a 7959B drive from my 360 system.

I can see the HPIB drives from HPUX, it finds the drives when searching
for a bootable system, and it can load the kernal from a HPIB drive.

But that's as far as it gets.  During the autoconfiguration, it sees the
SCSI drives and various other bits of hardware, but not my HPIB disk and
tape drives.  Thus it can't continue booting. 

This is using a 1.2E kernal and latest bootblocks.

Is there any way for me to get my new system up and running without having
to resort to a net install of 1.2.1 and upgrade?  How do I get it to use
my HPIB drives?

Thanks,
  -- MW