Re: Trouble booting

On Jun 21, 2005, at 11:30 PM, der Mouse wrote:

> +----------------
> | Copyright 1985,
> | Hewlett-Packard Company.
> | All Rights Reserved.
> |
> | BOOTROM Rev. A
> | Bit Mapped Display
> | MC68020 Processor
> | MC68881 Coprocessor
> | Keyboard
> | HP-IB
> | HP98620B
> | HP98644 at 9
> | ID39 at 14

Yah, that is one of the valid IDs for the SCSI card.  See sys/arch/ 
hp300/dev/diodevs

> | HP98644 at 17
> | HP98644 at 18
> | HP98644 at 19
> | HP98643 at 21
> | 6291282 Bytes
> +----------------
>
> (This doesn't include the bottom two lines, one saying that it's
> searching for a system and RETURN to pause, the other suggesting
> RESET.)
>
> The card at ID 14 is the 98658A, and seeing it called ID39 rather than
> 98658A makes me suspect the bootroms don't recognize it and hence  
> can't
> boot from it - anyone know whether this is so?  (14 is indeed the
> number set on the card's DIP switches as its id.)

Man, you're really making me dig deep to remember this stuff :-)

That's certainly possible.  What model is your machine?  Rev A  
BOOTROM + 68020 ... is it a 320?

> Also, from years ago when I was playing with this, I seem to recall
> that there's a way to get into some kind of menu of bootable devices.
> I think it was something like control-return immedately upon its
> recognizing the keyboard.  I've tried various combinations, to no
> avail; I do know the keyboard is in at least minimally functional,
> because RETURN pauses and unpauses the "searching for system", and
> Reset does indeed reset the system and rerun the POST.  I did some web
> searches, and some grepping over my back mail, but couldn't find
> anything of use.

Only the later BOOTROMs had the boot device selection menu.  Any  
system that has a local/remote switch for the console as a piece of  
hardware (DIP switch) is not going to have the boot device selection  
menu (because that menu also contained the software version of the  
local/remote switch).

-- thorpej