From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id DAA98023 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 03:30:29 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id DAA28880 for linux-list; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 03:29:42 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id DAA12817 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 03:29:41 -0800 (PST) mail_from (rjh@pixel.maths.monash.edu.au) Received: from pixel.maths.monash.edu.au (pixel.maths.monash.edu.au [130.194.160.20]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id DAA01967 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 03:29:38 -0800 (PST) mail_from (rjh@pixel.maths.monash.edu.au) Received: (from rjh@localhost) by pixel.maths.monash.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8-ajr) id WAA18917; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 22:29:30 +1100 (EDT) From: Robin Humble Message-Id: <199902271129.WAA18917@pixel.maths.monash.edu.au> Subject: Re: new to list - boot problem To: milos@insync.net Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 22:29:30 +1100 (EDT) Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <36D7D1F6.506C5421@insync.net> from "Miles Lott" at Feb 27, 99 11:07:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk >the "unable to open initial console" message( read: hang ). There are a few things that this can be, but the most obvious is to check that the dev/ directory in the HardHat distribution looks like: crw------- 1 root root 4, 0 Sep 14 19:39 console crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Sep 14 19:43 null brw-r----- 1 root disk 1, 1 Sep 14 19:43 ram crw------- 1 root root 4, 0 Sep 14 19:44 systty crw------- 1 root root 4, 1 Sep 14 19:44 tty1 crw------- 1 root root 4, 2 Sep 14 19:44 tty2 crw------- 1 root root 4, 3 Sep 14 19:44 tty3 crw------- 1 root root 4, 4 Sep 14 19:44 tty4 crw------- 1 root root 4, 5 Sep 14 19:44 tty5 If not, then nuke the devices and remake them with mknod, chown, chmod. Some tar programs (IRIX's in particular) screws these up. You can re-make these devices under Linux/x86 or IRIX - both work fine. If re-making from under IRIX then 'disk' gid = 6, and 'root' gid = 0 = sys under IRIX. Other possibilities are that you're running on hardware not well supported by HardHat (new kernels are available) or the nfsroot procedure isn't working well enough. I'm sure other people will have other failure modes to tell you as well :) cheers, robin + He'd found that even the people whose job of work was, so to speak, the Universe, didn't really believe in it and were actually quite proud of not knowing what it really was or even if it could theoretically exist. Robin Humble / http://www.maths.monash.edu.au/~rjh/