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 (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id MAA2164467 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:11:15 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id MAA3103528 for linux-list; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:10:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id MAA1918947 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:10:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from dirtpan.npiww.com (dirtpan.networkprograms.com [207.113.23.2]) by sgi.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam) via SMTP id MAA07227 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:10:12 -0800 (PST) mail_from (dliu@npiww.com) Received: from mailhub.networkprograms.com [192.9.202.51] by dirtpan.npiww.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA01304 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:17:34 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:25:08 -0500 Message-Id: <199803272025.PAA16215@pluto.npiww.com> From: Dong Liu To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: new to sgi linux Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hello, I'm new to sgi linux, just got a spare Indy :=), can some one help me on this. According the linux sgi FAQ on http://www.linux.sgi.com, I download vmlinux-970916-efs and the small root fs. When I boot it using bootp, I get Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000000, epc == 800cbfdc, ra == 800cbfbc right after linux kernel displayed eth0: SGI Seeq8003 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx I also noticed that something unusual, the kernel printed out Memory: 60964/196604k avaialble (1020k kernel code, 2772k data) ^^^^^^ this is too big for 62M My machine is a Indy which has 62M memory, and PROMLIB detected it right. Another thing it didn't get the right capacity of scsi disk. I also tried the newer kernels from ftp.linux.sgi.com:/pub/test, but they immediately crashed. Thanks. Dong