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 f7D4ppi29143 for linux-mips-outgoing; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:51:51 -0700 Received: from mail.foobazco.org (snowman.foobazco.org [198.144.194.230]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f7D4poj29140 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:51:50 -0700 Received: from galt.foobazco.org (galt.foobazco.org [198.144.194.227]) by mail.foobazco.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AF673E90; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:39:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by galt.foobazco.org (Postfix, from userid 1014) id F24E713FD0; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:46:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:46:15 -0700 From: Keith M Wesolowski To: Mark Nellemann Cc: linux-mips mail list Subject: Re: Is it possible to boot linux on an O2 r5k ? Message-ID: <20010812214615.B24560@foobazco.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B73A5D0.1050202@nellemann.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 11:13:52AM +0200, Mark Nellemann wrote: > I was told on irc a month ago, that someone had gotten an O2 to boot. You were not lied to. http://foobazco.org/~wesolows/o2.txt > Yesterday I tried to fire up my O2. The whole bootp, tftp setup was working > fine, but when I boot'ed the kernel (linux-2.4.3-ip22) the kernel said "Yee, > could not determine architecture type ". Is this because i'm using a > wrong kernel or isn't it possible to boot the O2 yet ? Certainly not with that kernel. You need a modified kernel that understands O2 (and a 64-bit kernel toolchain to build it). -- Keith M Wesolowski http://foobazco.org/~wesolows ------(( Project Foobazco Coordinator and Network Administrator ))------ "There is no such song as 'Acid Acid Acid' by 'The Acid Heads' but there might as well be." --jwz