On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:11:05 -0700
Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com> wrote:

> Now, part of the reason why I am working on this machine is to make it
> actually work with HP-UX (funny how that works), so I tried to boot it
> into single user mode (via some HP instructions) and it booted, but I
> could not type anything once the # prompt came. I assume some terminal
> setting problem, but strange that the bios (or firmware) worked fine,
> just not the HP os in single user mode?
Maybe HP-UX needs some hardware handshaking. In that case you should use
"loop back hardware handshaking". Make sure that you have a wiring like
this:
3 ------------- 2		TXD / RXD
2 ------------- 3		RXD / TXD
5 ------------- 5		GND

7 -+         +- 7		RTS
8 -+         +- 8		CTS

6 -+         +- 6		DSR
1 -+         +- 1		DCD
4 -+         +- 4		DTR

i.e. connect pin 2 of one connector to pin 3 on the other and vice
versa. Connect pin 5 of one connector to pin 5 on the other. Shorten
pins 7 to 8 and 6 to 1 to 4. (If you want real hardware handshaking
connect pin 7 of one connector to pin 8 on the other and vice versa.)

> Anyway, working on cross building a current kernel on the
> NetBSD/sparc64 machine for hp700 (there's a combination for you) and
> then booting it off the net from the NetBSD/sparc64 machine.
You can not build hp700 on LP64 machines due to bugs in GCC. You will
get internal compiler errors.
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