On 5 Mar, 12:04, Baz <boogy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to install SCO Openserver 5.0.7 onto a new HP DL380G5
> sever.
>
> I am using a USB floppy disk drive that has a disk containing HP's
> latest EFS. for the Smartstart P400 SAS array.
>
> At the boot: I use defbootstr link=hpsas hd=Sdsk Sdsk=hpsas(0,0,0,0)
> Srom=wd(0,0,0)
> as per the HP instructions, and it appears to be going OK. It asks for
> and loads the drivers whilst still on the "boot" screen, it then
> continues after loading the drivers until it reaches the "Press ENTER
> to begin installation" message.
>
> A few seconds after this, a message appears as follows
> "usb_msto: please disconnect and re-attach the device to try again.
> T.584-usb_msto0 0200 2 <drvr16>: Initialization failure. Please
> reattach the device to retry."
>
> Needless to say, reattaching it doesn't work.
>
> I have done a lot of searching about and tried things like adding
> Sflp=usb_msto(0,0,0) to the bootstrap, but that doesn't work.
>
> I am puzzled as to why it first appears to load the drivers, then
> doesn't.
>
> Any ideas greatly received :-)
>
> Thanks.

Don't bother. Since OpenServer was written years ago, and is basically
obsolete, and the vendor is bankruptcy, simply virtualize it with
VMware on your contemporary hardware and forget about all the hardware
compatibility issues. Leave resolvoing those to a contemporary OS: I
use RHEL 5 for this.