booting

[jim bidebo]

have an old 715/100 workstation that i now want to use as a testmashine. But ive forgotten how to interuppt the boot sequence so i can chose to boot from cd instead.

anyone remember how?

[Pete Randall]

It should be the same as more current machines. You get the "10 seconds - press any key message" and do so. I just got rid of my last 715 so I can't test this for certain but that's how I recall it.

Pete

[Donald Kok]

Yep,
- on the 10 seconds command, hit a key
- type SEA to find the boot devices,
- type boot P3 (f.i.) to start from the found boot device.

Good luck
Donald

Be sure to have enough memory (>=128Mb) if you load ux11, otherwise it will be deadslow. 10.20 can run with 32 Mb.

[jim bidebo]

hmm.. dont get that menu... (or if i do get it its before i get the 8 yellow boxes in the lower left corner?) ive also replaced the original hdd with a pretty new ultrawide seagate 9GB disk?

[harry d brown jr]

I thought on workstations that to interupt the boot you hit the escape key?

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harry

[jim bidebo]

ive tried to use the esc key aswell.. without any results.

[harry d brown jr]

How about a hammer?

kicking it?

I win, read this thread:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xd3cc35067c18d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html


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harry

[Pete Randall]

8 yellow boxes?? I don't remember yellow boxes. What are you using for a monitor? If I remember correctly, my 715/100 (that I had up until a few months ago) was connected to a monitor that would start up in power-save mode - the screen would stay dark until after the "10 second" message had gone by, so I used to just continuously press the esc key every two or three seconds until I got the menu.

Does that help any?

Pete

[harry d brown jr]

Jim,

How about TAKING acre of this:
This member has assigned points to 21 of 160 responses to his/her questions.


You can find your previous posts here:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/TopSolutions/1,,BR188753!1!questions,00.html

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harry

[jim bidebo]

hmm.. could it be that my ordinary pcmonitor cant handle the resolution? i only have a gray screen before i get the yellow boxes (most of them are empty, but a few got text in them, i belive they are reprecented by the functionkeys F1 -F8)

[jim bidebo]

(sorry but konqueror doesnt seam to support the pointsystem... have assigned and submited points but nothing happens, and konqueror is the only browser that works on this system, lindows)