On Sunday 22 May 2005 00:55, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 08:03:50AM -0700, Michael Wolfson wrote:
> > >I don't know much about making CD boot images, and even less about CD
> > >boot
> > >for HP boxes, so can someone else look into that?
> >
> > If it's anything like hp300, then dumping that LIF image to CD should
> > "just work".  AFAICT, they didn't have any provisions for booting from
> > CD-ROM in the BootROM, so they just treated CDs as any other SCSI HD.
> > At least, that's what the HPUKES 9.10 CDs looked like to me.
>
> ah, cool.
>
> could someone please try this out?  it looks like it should work,
> the openbsd cdboot appears to be the normal bootloader code with
> the non-CD bits removed.

This didn't work for me on a hp715/50 I've been given

              (c) Copyright Hewlett-Packard Company, 1991, 1992
Portions of this code are (c) Copyright Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, 91, 92

PDC ROM rev. 1.3
IODC ROM rev. 1.1
192 MB of memory have been configured.


Selecting a system to boot.
To stop selection process, press and hold the ESCAPE key.

Selection process stopped.

Searching for Potential Boot Devices.
To terminate search, press and hold the ESCAPE key.

Device Selection      Device Path              Device Type
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

P0                    scsi.6.0                 IBM     DNES-309170
P1                    scsi.4.0                 TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5401TA
P2                    scsi.1.0                 HP      C2247-300
P3                    scsi.0.0                 TEAC    FC-1     HF   07
P4                    lan.00a024-3822ae.0.0    nthcliff



b)    Boot from specified device
s)    Search for bootable devices
a)    Enter Boot Administration mode
x)    Exit and continue boot sequence
?)    Help

Select from menu: b
Enter boot selection, (h)elp, or e(x)it: P1

Trying scsi.4.0
Failed to initialize scsi.4.0
ENTRY_INIT status = -4

80000007 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00003509 0000003B FF0009BF 84000007 801000DC 00000000 0025F000 00000400
98080000 00000000 0000A0E0 00000000 00000002 00000002 00000004 00000001


Searching for Potential Boot Devices.
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