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 OAA71810 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:57:32 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id OAA18698 for linux-list; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:56:30 -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 OAA52898 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:56:29 -0800 (PST) mail_from (sgi.com!rachael.franken.de!hub-fue!alpha.franken.de!tsbogend) Received: from rachael.franken.de (rachael.franken.de [193.175.24.38]) 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 RAA02028 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 17:56:26 -0500 (EST) mail_from (rachael.franken.de!hub-fue!alpha.franken.de!tsbogend) Received: from hub-fue by rachael.franken.de via rmail with uucp id for cthulhu.engr.sgi.com!linux; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 23:56:58 +0100 (MET) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #4 built DST-Sep-8) Received: by hub-fue.franken.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #35) id m10O8Bd-002Oo8C; Fri, 19 Mar 99 23:56 MET Received: (from tsbogend@localhost) by alpha.franken.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id WAA02545; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 22:26:18 +0100 Message-ID: <19990319222618.A2527@alpha.franken.de> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 22:26:18 +0100 From: Thomas Bogendoerfer To: Greg Moeller Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Strange bootp behavior. References: <19990318225705.A3281@alpha.franken.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 In-Reply-To: ; from Greg Moeller on Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 05:20:16PM -0600 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 05:20:16PM -0600, Greg Moeller wrote: > Broke printenv: > SystemPartition=bootp():/ > OSLoader=vmlinux this one didn't work for me at all, I had to change it to SystemPartition=bootp(). With this it works without problems. I see in your boot messages, that on your machine the freed prom memory is higher than on my machine. Ulf Carlson needed to disable the prom memory freeing to get his kernel working. So I'm pretty sure, there something wrong with it. I've disabled this feature in the current CVS version. Please try it (the updated file is arch/mips/arc/memory.c). Thomas. -- This device has completely bogus header. Compaq scores again :-| It's a host bridge, but it should be called ghost bridge instead ;^) [Martin `MJ' Mares on linux-kernel]