On Mon, 15 Apr 96 15:29:37 EDT 
 jth@spl2.c3sys.army.mil wrote:

 >    I have been unable to get SYS_INST to boot.
 > 
 >    I have Rev C ROMs, 9144 tape drives, SCSI and HP-IB disks
 >    and 370 machines with 16 MB of RAM.
 > 
 >    SYS_INST.gz is 26489 bytes, 
 > 
 >    No matter where I put SYS_INST the system loader doesn't see it.

Where have you tried to put it?  I'm not really sure how HP-UX installs 
boot blocks on disk.  You should be able to gunzip it and dd it to the 
very beginning of a tape...  It is not intended to reside in the filesystem.

 >    Is it a boot program ?,  Do I have to boot over the network ?

Yes, it is a boot program; that is, it is loaded by the ROM like a boot 
program, and loads the kernel from the miniroot when it's done.

I was only able to test netbooting SYS_INST when I wrote it, though I'm 
told that you can load it off of tape.

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