Re: New Indy kernel uploaded

Re: New Indy kernel uploaded

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 01:18:03PM -0500, Miles Lott wrote:
> Should I leave the detected partitions as is during the redhat install,
> and not repartition ext2 using diskdruid or fdisk?

don't touch the partitions (if they don't fit, use Irix to change them), but
make sure, that the installer creates a new filesystem.

Thomas.

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New Indy kernel uploaded

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

After killing a lot of SCSI bugs during the last weeks, I've made a new
kernel with all of the fixes in it. It also contains a workaround 
for the problem with hanging after "Freeing unused kernel memory".

Everyone, who had problems with older kernels, please test this kernel.

ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/test/vmlinux-indy-2.2.1-990329.gz

Thomas.

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   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]

New Indy kernel uploaded

[Tom Woelfel]

Thomas Bogendoerfer writes:
 > After killing a lot of SCSI bugs during the last weeks, I've made a new
 > kernel with all of the fixes in it. It also contains a workaround 
 > for the problem with hanging after "Freeing unused kernel memory".
 > 
 > Everyone, who had problems with older kernels, please test this kernel.

Yep, done. Works without problems - Linux is up and running. How do
you solve the problems with the ECOFF/ELF thing ? Is there some kind
of backwards-compatibility ? 

Thanx a lot :-)))

If you need testing support for some more kernels simply drop a note.

//Tom

Re: New Indy kernel uploaded

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 09:43:16AM +0200, Tom Woelfel wrote:
> Yep, done. Works without problems - Linux is up and running. How do
> you solve the problems with the ECOFF/ELF thing ? Is there some kind
> of backwards-compatibility ? 

yes, every newer PROM is also able to boot ECOFF kernels. So I just
uploaded an ECOFF kernel, which should work with every PROM.

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]

Re: New Indy kernel uploaded

[Miles Lott]

This is working for me, too - to a point.  I get stuck
just past the package selection and the message that a log
will be created.  It looks as if it is hanging trying to
mount the linux partition.  So, stupid question.  The 
install instructions say to begin by running fx and setting
up a root partition on the second disk from within IRIX.
So, am I supposed to format ext2 from within the Hardhat setup
program?  Or, rather, at what point is the partition formatted
suitably for the Hardhat install to begin unpacking files on it?
TIA

Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 09:43:16AM +0200, Tom Woelfel wrote:
> > Yep, done. Works without problems - Linux is up and running. How do
> > you solve the problems with the ECOFF/ELF thing ? Is there some kind
> > of backwards-compatibility ?
> 
> yes, every newer PROM is also able to boot ECOFF kernels. So I just
> uploaded an ECOFF kernel, which should work with every PROM.
> 
> 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]

Re: New Indy kernel uploaded

[Alex deVries]

Hardhat itself should format the partition for you; the ext2 on irix is
slightly broekn.

-- 
Alex deVries, puffin on LinuxNet.
Linux on HP PA RISC. The final frontier.

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Miles Lott wrote:

> This is working for me, too - to a point.  I get stuck
> just past the package selection and the message that a log
> will be created.  It looks as if it is hanging trying to
> mount the linux partition.  So, stupid question.  The 
> install instructions say to begin by running fx and setting
> up a root partition on the second disk from within IRIX.
> So, am I supposed to format ext2 from within the Hardhat setup
> program?  Or, rather, at what point is the partition formatted
> suitably for the Hardhat install to begin unpacking files on it?
> TIA
> 
> Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 09:43:16AM +0200, Tom Woelfel wrote:
> > > Yep, done. Works without problems - Linux is up and running. How do
> > > you solve the problems with the ECOFF/ELF thing ? Is there some kind
> > > of backwards-compatibility ?
> > 
> > yes, every newer PROM is also able to boot ECOFF kernels. So I just
> > uploaded an ECOFF kernel, which should work with every PROM.
> > 
> > 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]
>