Re: HPPA support for IGNITE-UX install discs

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Cc'ing the HPPA team.

On 9/20/20 9:42 PM, Keith Monahan via wrote:
> HI there,
> 
> In QEMU 5.1.50 (also tried 4.2.1) built from source, I have a particular
> IGNITE-UX disk associated with an HP Logic Analyzer 16700A that I'm
> trying to boot and install. It's based on HP-UX 10.20. The regular LA
> hardware shows up via uname as "HP-UX no_hostn B.10.20 C 9000/779
> 2008038539 32-user license" I've seen reference to 9000/779/rock. This
> should be fairly similar to the B132L/B160L.
> 
> While SeaBIOS identifies the attached virtual drive, and the specified
> CDROM boots, the install init script fails to find any IO devices, and
> so no installation can occur.
> 
> Other HP-UX 10.20 Ignite-UX disks work without issue in the same qemu
> environment with the same command line options.
> 
> A successful run has the "Scanning system for IO devices..." take a few
> seconds, followed by a "Querying disk device" message for each of the
> devices it sees. That whole process takes 30 seconds or so in emulation.
> 
> A bad run immediately goes from "Scanning system..." to "There were no
> disk devices found during the scan."
> 
> I have noticed that the "install/init" Revision on one that works is a
> 10.3, but the failing one is 10.124. Not sure if this telltale or not.
> 
> Anyone super familiar with this type of install disk? Or how the boot
> process works with HP-UX CDs in general? What gets loaded first? How can
> I find this script and/or executable that's evaluating the readiness of
> the drives? My thoughts are that I could "update" via editing the ISO,
> which both mount easily in Linux.
> 
> But I'm open to thoughts, including redirection to a different more
> appropriate mailing list! :)
> 
> Thanks for any general advice.
> Keith
> 
> 
> I'm invoking like this:
> 
> ./qemu-system-hppa -boot d -serial mon:stdio -drive
> if=scsi,bus=0,index=6,file=./hpux.img,format=raw -D /tmp/foo -nographic
> -m 512 -d nochain -cdrom ./HP16700_cdrom.iso -net nic,model=tulip  -net tap
> 
> and see this:
> 
>   Primary boot path:    FWSCSI.6.0
>   Alternate boot path:  FWSCSI.2.0
>   Console path:         SERIAL_1.9600.8.none
>   Keyboard path:        PS2
> 
> Available boot devices:
> 1. DVD/CD [lsi 00:00.0 2:0 Drive QEMU QEMU CD-ROM 2.5+]
> 2. lsi 00:00.0 6:0 Drive QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 2.5+
> 
> Booting from DVD/CD [lsi 00:00.0 2:0 Drive QEMU QEMU CD-ROM 2.5+]
> 
> Booting...
> Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 153
> 
> HARD Booted.
> 
> ISL Revision A.00.38  OCT 26, 1994
> 
> ISL booting  hpux (;0):INSTALL
> 
> Boot
> : disc(8/0/0/0.2.0;0):INSTALL
> 4999156 + 446464 + 361504 start 0x184268
> No BTLB entries found for processor 0
> vuseg=1a5a000
> 
>     System Console is on the Built-In Serial Interface
> Networking memory for fragment reassembly is restricted to 49061888 bytes
>     Swap device table:  (start & size given in 512-byte blocks)
>         entry 0 - auto-configured on root device; ignored - no room
> WARNING: No dump device configured.  Dump is disabled.
> Starting the STREAMS daemons.
>     9245XB HP-UX (B.10.20) #1: Sun Jun  9 06:31:19 PDT 1996
> 
> Memory Information:
>     physical page size = 4096 bytes, logical page size = 4096 bytes
>     Physical: 524288 Kbytes, lockable: 404768 Kbytes, available: 465588
> Kbytes
> 
> =======  09/19/20 16:01:14 EDT  HP-UX Installation Initialization. (Sat
> Sep 19
>          16:01:14 EDT 2020)
>          @(#) Ignite-UX Revision 1.32
>          @(#) install/init (opt) $Revision: 10.124 $
>        * EISA configuration has completed.  Following the completion of a
>          successful HP-UX installation, please check the
> "/etc/eisa/config.err"
>          file for any EISA configuration messages.
>        * Scanning system for IO devices...
> NOTE:    There were no disk devices found during the scan.  Make sure
> that the
>          destination disks are connected and powered on.  You may choose to
>          scan for more disk drives from next menu on the console.
> WARNING: Could not verify access to LAN interface: 8/0/1/0
> ERROR:   could not find source device 8/0/0/0 in ioscan output
> Would you like to switch source to network? (y/[n]): y
> 
> 
> Hardware Summary:         System Model: 9000/778/B160L
>   +---------------------+----------------+-------------------+ [ Scan
> Again  ]
>   | Disks: 0  (  0.0GB) |  Floppies: 0   | LAN cards:   1    |
>   | CDs:   0            |  Tapes:    0   | Memory:    512Mb  |
>   | Graphics Ports: 0   |  IO Buses: 1   |                   | [ H/W
> Details ]
>   +---------------------+----------------+-------------------+
>