From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f78GDmm21375 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 09:13:48 -0700 Received: from noose.gt.owl.de (postfix@noose.gt.owl.de [62.52.19.4]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f78GDiV21371 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 09:13:44 -0700 Received: by noose.gt.owl.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 6091810CF; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 18:13:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by paradigm.rfc822.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5E1D53F24; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 17:43:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 17:43:51 +0200 From: Florian Lohoff To: Ian Cc: Guido Guenther , Soeren Laursen , linux-mips Subject: Re: HELP can't boot Message-ID: <20010808174351.C17694@paradigm.rfc822.org> References: <20010808154246.A25205@gandalf.physik.uni-konstanz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from ian@WPI.EDU on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:46:24AM -0400 Organization: rfc822 - pure communication Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:46:24AM -0400, Ian wrote: > > > You simply need to recreate a sgi partition table which is no problem > > with a current fdisk. That's all you need to make linux bootable from > > harddisk. > > Right. But how to I get to that point? There is NO bootloader? I have > no Irix 6.x media available to restore those partitions. > tftp/nfs-root boot ? The prom is enough. > I was planning to use HardHat as a basis to build a custom LFS > (http://www.linuxfromscrtach.org) system from. It would be sufficient. Hardhat is VERY old and you will get really in trouble to get any current software integrated into the distribution. Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?