On 06-Feb-98 Jorgen Pehrson wrote:
> Hi,
> I was just given an hp300/380 as it was about to be junked. 
> How can I install NetBSD on it? When I try to boot it it says this:
> 
> Copyright 1990,
> Hewlett-Packard Company.
> All Rights Reserved.
> 
> BOOTROM Rev. 2.0  29 NOV 90
> Bit Mapped Video
> MC68040 Processor
> Configuration EEPROM
> HP-HIL.Keyboard
> HP-IB
> DMA-C0
> RAM 16776900 Bytes
> HP98644 (RS-232) at 9
> HP98265 (SCSI S 32) at 14
> HP98643 (LAN) at 21, AUI, 08000907CE0B
> HP PARALLEL at 23

Jorgen, 
        The HP380 is on of the best hp300 in the line(IMHO). Its got SCSI &&
HP-IB, which is a big plus if you cant find any HP-IB disks. Nice quick
25mhz 040! The RAM is 'SIMM' like. We've found more at 'ancient-computer'
garage sales.

        One problem is they arent net-bootable (you need a BOOROM revision C
or later). So basically, you need a SCSI drive, hook it to a computer that
can write BSD disklables, and drop the miniroot into the swap partition.
Boot of the swap, and install away! (assuming your on a network where you
can ftp to one of the NetBSD mirror sites).]

        Good luck
        
        Nate
> 
> 
> Secondary Loader Revision 64.2 $
> Booting /hp-ux
> 
> [here the system reads (or try to read) the kernel from disk for about 4
> seconds, then it says this:]
> 
> UNEXPECTED USE OF FFFFFFC4
> 
> 
> So.. What do you think it could be? Hardware or software problem? Broken
> SCSI disk, bad memory or something completely different?
> 
> Can this beast netboot? I saw something about it needing at least rev C of
> the bootroms. It looks like I have rev 2.0? Will that rev allow me to
> netboot? 
> 
> I tried to see if it would boot the HPUX install CD, but it wouldn't
> recognize the CDROM. Can't the 300 boot from CDROM? 
> 
> Is there a HP300 faq somewhere that describes the console commands?
> 
> (I have NetBSD on my DECstation 5000/200 and on a MicroVAXII and would
> like to have it running on this HP300 if at all possible.)
> 
> --
> Jorgen Pehrson jp@spektr.ludvika.se
> http://spektr.ludvika.se/museum/

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E-Mail: Nathan Gelbard <gelbard@engr.orst.edu>
Date: 06-Feb-98
Time: 12:22:56

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