kernel for indigo2

kernel for indigo2

[Florian Lohoff]

Hi,
i recently (a couple of days ago) got an Indigo2 Impact and i thought
of beginning to bootstrap debian-mips (I already have >900 Package for
debian-mipsel) but i cant even boot a kernel. The standard (and old)
kernel on oss.sgi.com simple halt the machine after tftp boot - When
building a kernel from the current CVS the machine
crashes with a UTLB Miss as mentioned in the MIPS-FAQ as the 
-N binutils bugs although there is no -N in the makefile.

Does anyone have a working kernel for the Indigo2 ?

Flo
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Florian Lohoff		flo@rfc822.org		      	+49-5241-470566
"Technology is a constant battle between manufacturers producing bigger and
more idiot-proof systems and nature producing bigger and better idiots."

Re: kernel for indigo2

[Richard]

Florian Lohoff wrote:

> Hi,
> i recently (a couple of days ago) got an Indigo2 Impact and i thought
> of beginning to bootstrap debian-mips (I already have >900 Package for
> debian-mipsel) but i cant even boot a kernel. The standard (and old)
> kernel on oss.sgi.com simple halt the machine after tftp boot - When
> building a kernel from the current CVS the machine
> crashes with a UTLB Miss as mentioned in the MIPS-FAQ as the
> -N binutils bugs although there is no -N in the makefile.
>
> Does anyone have a working kernel for the Indigo2 ?

I had this very same problem with the CVS tree on my indy r5k. If anyone knows
what the problem is, or when it will be fixed, i'd love to now, because
development is on a halt here right now.

Richard

Re: kernel for indigo2

[Florian Lohoff]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:21:21PM +0200, Richard wrote:
> Florian Lohoff wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > i recently (a couple of days ago) got an Indigo2 Impact and i thought
> > of beginning to bootstrap debian-mips (I already have >900 Package for
> > debian-mipsel) but i cant even boot a kernel. The standard (and old)
> > kernel on oss.sgi.com simple halt the machine after tftp boot - When
> > building a kernel from the current CVS the machine
> > crashes with a UTLB Miss as mentioned in the MIPS-FAQ as the
> > -N binutils bugs although there is no -N in the makefile.
> >
> > Does anyone have a working kernel for the Indigo2 ?
> 
> I had this very same problem with the CVS tree on my indy r5k. If anyone knows
> what the problem is, or when it will be fixed, i'd love to now, because
> development is on a halt here right now.

As you have a R5000 machine it cant be that CPU dependent as
i have a R4400 250Mhz machine.

The development is a little on hold here too as the Current Kernel CVS
doesnt run on ANY of my platforms - On Decstation it boots but i cant
login :( and on Indigo2 it simply crashes :( On decstation i am currently
running 2.3.21 which crashes for me twice a day or something while compiling.

System: IP22
Processor: 250Mhz R4400, with FPU
ICache: 16k
DCache: 16k
2ndLevel: 2Mbyte
Memory: 128Mb
GFX: Solid Impact

Flo
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Florian Lohoff		flo@rfc822.org		      	+49-5241-470566
"Technology is a constant battle between manufacturers producing bigger and
more idiot-proof systems and nature producing bigger and better idiots."

Re: kernel for indigo2

[Florian Lohoff]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:29:00PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:

> The development is a little on hold here too as the Current Kernel CVS
> doesnt run on ANY of my platforms - On Decstation it boots but i cant
> login :( and on Indigo2 it simply crashes :( On decstation i am currently
> running 2.3.21 which crashes for me twice a day or something while compiling.

Another one - If i disable the LX Video Driver for the Indy the kernel
does not crash but "hang" - Means - No ouput - Now i tried to set the console
and now i get nothing on the Video output and it seems my serial cables dont
work - How do i reset the prom ?

Flo
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Florian Lohoff		flo@rfc822.org		      	+49-5241-470566
"Technology is a constant battle between manufacturers producing bigger and
more idiot-proof systems and nature producing bigger and better idiots."

RE: kernel for indigo2

[Mike Hill]

Hi Florian,

Is the 2.2 CVS branch still accessible?  I had a measure of success with
2.2.13 and 2.3.21 cross-compiled circa December.  I'd have to test them
again to tell you which, but with at least one of them, I can boot into a
working system.  The tricky bit is by the time it's finished booting, the
serial console output is lost; at this point I'd like to be able to telnet
in, but my setup.rpm (from hardhat) lacks the necessary securettys.

I can send you something if you need it.

HTH,

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Florian Lohoff [SMTP:flo@rfc822.org]
> Sent:	March 31, 2000 12:45 PM
> To:	linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
> Subject:	kernel for indigo2
> 
> Hi,
> i recently (a couple of days ago) got an Indigo2 Impact and i thought
> of beginning to bootstrap debian-mips (I already have >900 Package for
> debian-mipsel) but i cant even boot a kernel. The standard (and old)
> kernel on oss.sgi.com simple halt the machine after tftp boot - When
> building a kernel from the current CVS the machine
> crashes with a UTLB Miss as mentioned in the MIPS-FAQ as the 
> -N binutils bugs although there is no -N in the makefile.
> 
> Does anyone have a working kernel for the Indigo2 ?
> 
> Flo
> -- 
> Florian Lohoff		flo@rfc822.org
> +49-5241-470566
> "Technology is a constant battle between manufacturers producing bigger
> and
> more idiot-proof systems and nature producing bigger and better idiots."

Re: kernel for indigo2

[Florian Lohoff]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:21:56PM -0500, Mike Hill wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> Is the 2.2 CVS branch still accessible?  I had a measure of success with
> 2.2.13 and 2.3.21 cross-compiled circa December.  I'd have to test them
> again to tell you which, but with at least one of them, I can boot into a
> working system.  The tricky bit is by the time it's finished booting, the
> serial console output is lost; at this point I'd like to be able to telnet
> in, but my setup.rpm (from hardhat) lacks the necessary securettys.
> 
> I can send you something if you need it.

If you have a binary kernel image with nfsroot that would be great - I could
begin installing this machine - You could dump it into
ftp://ftp.rfc822.org/incoming - Or otherwise a 2.3.21 source tree - I am 
not having much luck getting that relase/tag but this might be due to
my little experience with cvs ...

Flo
-- 
Florian Lohoff		flo@rfc822.org		      	+49-5241-470566
"Technology is a constant battle between manufacturers producing bigger and
more idiot-proof systems and nature producing bigger and better idiots."

Re: kernel for indigo2

[Richard]

Florian Lohoff wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:21:56PM -0500, Mike Hill wrote:
> > Hi Florian,
> >
> > Is the 2.2 CVS branch still accessible?  I had a measure of success with
> > 2.2.13 and 2.3.21 cross-compiled circa December.  I'd have to test them
> > again to tell you which, but with at least one of them, I can boot into a
> > working system.  The tricky bit is by the time it's finished booting, the
> > serial console output is lost; at this point I'd like to be able to telnet
> > in, but my setup.rpm (from hardhat) lacks the necessary securettys.
> >
> > I can send you something if you need it.
>

I changed the setup*-noarch.rpm once for installing on a challenge S, it should
be on the sgi.com archive somewhere.

Richard

Re: kernel for indigo2

[Michael Hill]

On Apr 1, 12:24am, Richard wrote:

> I changed the setup*-noarch.rpm once for installing on a challenge S, it
> should be on the sgi.com archive somewhere.

Hi Richard,

Thanks.  I can't wait to try this (tomorrow?).

Mike

Re: kernel for indigo2

[Ralf Baechle]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:21:56PM -0500, Mike Hill wrote:

> Is the 2.2 CVS branch still accessible?

Of course it is still accessible and maintained.  You can access it
by adding the option ``-r linux_2_2'' to your cvs command line.

  Ralf

Re: kernel for indigo2

[Andrew R. Baker]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> Hi,
> i recently (a couple of days ago) got an Indigo2 Impact and i thought
> of beginning to bootstrap debian-mips (I already have >900 Package for
> debian-mipsel) but i cant even boot a kernel. The standard (and old)
> kernel on oss.sgi.com simple halt the machine after tftp boot - When
> building a kernel from the current CVS the machine
> crashes with a UTLB Miss as mentioned in the MIPS-FAQ as the 
> -N binutils bugs although there is no -N in the makefile.
> 
> Does anyone have a working kernel for the Indigo2 ?

I have not gotten any of the recent 2.3 kernels to boot on my Indigo2.
The last one I know worked was 2.3.19.  I have not had a chance to sort
this out yet as I have been out of town for two weeks.  The 2.2 kernels do
work however.

-Andrew

Re: kernel for indigo2

[Florian Lohoff]

On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 01:40:51PM -0500, Andrew R. Baker wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> > Hi,
> > i recently (a couple of days ago) got an Indigo2 Impact and i thought
> > of beginning to bootstrap debian-mips (I already have >900 Package for
> > debian-mipsel) but i cant even boot a kernel. The standard (and old)
> > kernel on oss.sgi.com simple halt the machine after tftp boot - When
> > building a kernel from the current CVS the machine
> > crashes with a UTLB Miss as mentioned in the MIPS-FAQ as the 
> > -N binutils bugs although there is no -N in the makefile.
> > 
> > Does anyone have a working kernel for the Indigo2 ?
> 
> I have not gotten any of the recent 2.3 kernels to boot on my Indigo2.
> The last one I know worked was 2.3.19.  I have not had a chance to sort
> this out yet as I have been out of town for two weeks.  The 2.2 kernels do
> work however.

Could you dump one of the working 2.2. kernels into ftp.rfc822.org/incoming
as i would like to start beginning in userspace ....

Flo
-- 
Florian Lohoff		flo@rfc822.org		      	+49-5241-470566
"Technology is a constant battle between manufacturers producing bigger and
more idiot-proof systems and nature producing bigger and better idiots."

RE: kernel for indigo2

[Mike Hill]

Hi Florian,

I re-ran the Hardhat installer with setup-1.9.2.noarch.rpm in place of
1.9.1.  (The installer seemed to have a problem with the root password I
entered.)  I can now boot the Indigo2 with the 2.3.21 kernel (boot vmlinux
root=/dev/sdb1 console=ttyS0) and see the kernel boot-up messages in the
serial console.  The last messages visible are:


Freeing unused kernel memory: 48k freed
Unable to find swap-space signature [this message appears four times]


At this point, the hard drive is silent, and telnet from another machine
elicits this response:


Hard Hat Linux Hard Hat release 5.1 (Manhattan)
Kernel 2.3.21 on a mips

login:


My attempted root login is then declared invalid.  For my next trick I'll
try pre-loading installfs/etc/passwd with a valid account, then re-running
the installer.  Is there any reason this shouldn't work?

Thanks,

Mike

Re: kernel for indigo2

[Richard]

> Hard Hat Linux Hard Hat release 5.1 (Manhattan)
> Kernel 2.3.21 on a mips
>
> login:
>
> My attempted root login is then declared invalid.  For my next trick I'll
> try pre-loading installfs/etc/passwd with a valid account, then re-running
> the installer.  Is there any reason this shouldn't work?

The reason your root login is not validated, is because Redhat doesn't allow
root logins over a tellnet session by default, and because of some stupid
decission  made once, it doesn't allow you to make a user account during
installation.

That's why you've had to change the setup-noarch.rpm to add a secure tty, to
login as root over a telnet session.

your /etc/passwd trick would also work

Richard