The output below is from the RS-232 console of my Prisma 40 showing the Linux boot sequence. Some points to note are:
>>>netboot -i OSI Version 4 bootstrap Valid Network Address: 0000E90007B2 Enter the name of the file to load: /tmp/p40lin.bin Enter the boot host NSAP address: Enter the boot host 12-digit MAC address if ES-IS protocol is not supported: Enter this Prisma's NSAP address: Auto-execute? (y/n): n OSI device,MAC <0000e90007b2> Booting from 49000102608c0d317500 lsdlt: ccb (80d520) ccb->dest_ccb = NULL, ppi = (nm), port = (down) boot failed >>>video off >>>go 7800800 ABCGHIJ Linux version 2.2.17 (georgeh@hppav) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #48 Sat Jun 30 22:52: 32 BST 2001 setup_arch: num_mem=1, addr0=00000000, size0=00800000 BRD_ID: Prisma 40 model 700 p40_req_irq: irq=28, name=timer Calibrating delay loop... 16.59 BogoMIPS Memory: 7260k/8192k available (584k kernel code, 300k data, 48k init) Dentry hash table entries: 1024 (order 1, 8k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order 3, 32k) Page cache hash table entries: 2048 (order 1, 8k) kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - filp POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - skbuff_head_cache NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - tcp_tw_bucket TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 8192 bhash 8192) Starting kswapd v 1.5 M68K Serial driver version 1.01 ttyS0 at 0x00000001: Prisma 40 IOP p40_req_irq: irq=27, name=Prisma IOP eth0: 82596 at 0x1000000, 00 00 E9 00 07 B2 IRQ 29. 82596.c $Revision: 1.2 $ eth0: lp at 0x00810000 (2260 bytes), lp->scb at 0x00810014 eth0: i596_open() irq 29. p40_req_irq: irq=29, name=i82596 init_rx_bufs: base=008108e0, end=008162e0, num=16 eth0: init_tx_bufs 16. init_tx_buf: base=008162e0, end=0081bce0, num=16 eth0: starting i82596. init_596_mem: cacheflush returned 0 eth0: i82596 initialization successful eth0: queuing CmdConfigure eth0: queuing CmdSASetup eth0: queuing CmdTDR eth0: Issuing RX_START eth0: link ok. eth0: Receive unit started OK Sending DHCP requests .. OK IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 10.0.1.15 IP-Config: Complete: device=eth0, addr=10.0.1.16, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=255.255.255.255, host=10.0.1.16, domain=dial.pipex.com, nis-domain=(none), bootserver=10.0.1.15, rootserver=10.0.1.17, rootpath= Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 10.0.1.17 Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 10.0.1.17 VFS: Mounted root (NFS filesystem) readonly. INIT: version 2.74 booting Activating swap partitions hostname: prisma40.dial.pipex.com Checking root filesystems. Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97) fsck: fsck.nfs: not found fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.nfs for hppav:/usr/local2/p40-root Turning on user and group quotas for root filesystem Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode. Checking filesystems. Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97) Checking all file systems. ---------------------------------- Mounting local filesystems. Turning on user and group quotas for local filesystems Setting clock: Can't open /dev/tty1. open() errno = Operation not supported by device (19). open() failed to open /dev/tty1, errno = Operation not supported by device (19). Fri Jul 28 06:24:26 BST 1995 Enabling swap space. Initializing random number generator... INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 Starting kerneld services: kerneld Starting kerneld, version 2.1.85 (pid 63) Mounting remote filesystems. Starting system loggers: syslogd klogd Starting cron daemon: crond Starting portmapper: portmap Starting INET services: inetd Starting NFS services: rpc.mountd rpc.nfsd Red Hat Linux release 5.1 (Manhattan) Kernel 2.2.17 on a m68k prisma40 login: