[rescue] OT: RS/6000s

[Steve Sandau]

I have the pinout for the strange serial console cable (tested and
working) if anyone would like...

Phil Schilling wrote:
> 
> Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> >
> > > Second box, a 7011/250 with no floppy, and a pasted-in SCSI drive can
> > > only load an OS over the network. The ethernet works. I can ping a host
> > > on the local net. I downloaded a couple of files that *might* be boot
> > > images. I set them up on a tftp server, but can't get the thing to look
> > > at a tftp server to boot. Ends with the same question as above. Though I
> > > just noticed that it seems to have a SCSI problem. Maybe it wants a
> > > special SCSI drive?
> > >
> > You are saying the 7011-250 will not load the OS from a SCSI CS-ROM??
> >
> > Or are you saying you could not get it to boot from the CD-ROM??
> >
> > I have a pair of these and would like to load AIX on them.
> >
> > Mike N
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> Mike,
>         I loaded my 250 via 512k block cdrom, no different than any sun box.
> The 250's use a little strange console serial cable but otherwise no
> weird problems.  I even pulled the ibm drive and upped to 4gb standard
> seagate with no problems.  If you have any trouble let me know,
> documented my setup.
> 
> Phil
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