No big deal. Your friend can probably legally come out of the woods. MPE
boxes are ALWAYS configured with a 2-user HP-UX licence. The reason for this
is that the Support Tape, a bootable set of off-line diagnostics and
utilities occasionally used by trained HP personnel, runs on an HP-UX
kernel.

The reverse is not true. HP-UX boxes (i.e. 9000s) can't boot MPE. They just
don't need to.

Or, to put it another way, the vast superiority of the 3000 vs. the 9000 is
that it can sucessfully boot the OTHER operating system as well as its own.

Christian Lheureux
Responsable du Département Systèmes et Réseaux / Head of Systems and
Networks Department
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]De la
> part de John Clogg
> Envoyé : jeudi 21 février 2002 20:36
> À : [log in to unmask]
> Objet : Re: [HP3000-L] Linux and HP3000 model 937RX
>
>
> As I understand it, MPE won't run on a 9000, simply because
> it has code in
> it to prevent that.  It looks at the identifying info in
> nonvolatile memory
> and chokes.  I doubt that Linux would be sabotaged in that
> way.  I have a
> friend (who shall forever remain nameless) who successfully
> loaded HPUX on a
> 3000.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne R. Boyer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 10:44 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Linux and HP3000 model 937RX
>
>
> In a message dated 2/21/02 10:09:00 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> > the mfio card or the 'personality' firmware
> >
>
> Depending upon how the MFIO card software works, it may not
> matter.  This
> should work like any other HPPB interface.  I'm told that
> MPE/iX is 'dumb'
> in
> that it cannot handle more than one interface on a single
> card while HPUX
> can
> deal with this.  This is why the SE-SCSI interface has that 'other'
> connector
> on it.  somehow HP made MPE/iX work with HP-3000 specific
> interfaces and
> HPUX
> work with their specific interfaces.  They all plug into the
> same backplane
> though.
>
> PARISC Linux must deal with the HP-9000 firmware in some
> maner.  If they can
> do that then the changes to handle the HP-3000 firmware
> shouldn't be major.
> The future of MPE without HP requires knowledge of this
> firmware data.  I'm
> curious to know what this Linux group is doing and I have
> signed myself up
> with their list server.
>
> Wayne
>
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