From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:22:06 -0700 Received: from obelix.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de ([134.109.132.55]:40345 "EHLO obelix.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:21:56 -0700 Received: from sunnyboy.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de by obelix.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de with Local SMTP (PP); Mon, 19 Jun 2000 22:21:29 +0200 Received: from scotty.mgnet.de (sulu.csn.tu-chemnitz.de [134.109.96.105]) by sunnyboy.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA27036 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 22:21:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 28409 invoked from network); 19 Jun 2000 20:21:26 -0000 Received: from spock.mgnet.de (HELO scotty.mgnet.de) (192.168.1.4) by scotty.mgnet.de with SMTP; 19 Jun 2000 20:21:26 -0000 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 22:22:15 +0200 From: Klaus Naumann To: Paul Jakma Cc: Linux MIPS Subject: Re: linux/mips on cd? Message-ID: <20000619222215.A23089@spock> Reply-To: spock@mgnet.de References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: ; from paul@clubi.ie on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 21:39:16 +0200 X-Mailer: Balsa 0.8.0 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:39:16 Paul Jakma wrote: > i know, i know.. I've read parts of the archive, and have lurked on > the list for a few months. However, it seems to me the Indy (little > endian linux/mips, right?) does at least boot and run some userspace No, big endian ;) Yes, it boots and it's possible to run most of the usual stuffs ... Also X is working now (at snail speed but working) because Guido Guenter made a X server. > i'm here more for the fun factor. (i've run linux on x86, Alpha > and PPC. Love to see it just booting on MIPS :) ) If you just want to see it booting you might want to get a vmlinux-indy from oss.sgi.com and boot it up - it should work. > incidentally, i tried booting the 2.2.13 kernel from the website. It > appeared to work as the PROM downloaded it and didn't complain, but > it produced absolutely no output. and when i pressed a key it booted > back to PROM. This is not the default behaviour - The PROM should freeze after it boots up the kernel if you use serial console - otherwise you will see the newport console ... If there is a running distribution I could make a CD and send it to you ... so this is not the problem - but it's not worth it until we have a system which is running more stable ... Cu, Klaus -- Full Name : Klaus Naumann | (http://www.mgnet.de/) (Germany) Nickname : Spock | Org.: Mad Guys Network Phone / FAX : ++49/177/7862964 | E-Mail: (spock@mgnet.de) PGP Key : www.mgnet.de/keys/key_spock.txt