cold installing 11.0 on a 712/60 refuses to boot from cd

[Rubin]

Hi people,

I'm having a problem booting the 11.0 install cd on a 712/60;

as soon as the graphics come up, I press escape and end up in the firmware (rev 1.6).
i do a search and find:

scsi.6.0 (my harddrive)
scsi.2.0 (my cdrom containing the install cd)

so, I do a "boot scsi.2.0" and it rattles a little, and without any message, it scrolls back the firmware menu! ?!?!!?
I really don't know what happens here; I've succesfully installed this cd on a 827 and the cd says "for series 700 & 800 machines" so it _should_ boot right? at least a message of some sort?
since I'm pretty new to hp stuff, I guess I'm looking over something, so PLEASE help me out!
Maybe an alternatve way of getting into the installation program? any help would be greatly appreciated.

Grtz,

Rubin.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi:

Your 712 is listed as a supported platform for 32-bit 11.0; however, your firmaware is quite old. I suspect that you need to update your firmware.

Regards, Clay