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 (970903.SGI.8.8.7/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id PAA130708 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:30:37 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id PAA27620 for linux-list; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:29:26 -0700 Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id PAA27606 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:29:24 -0700 Received: from multi11.netcomi.com (multi11.netcomi.com [204.58.155.211]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/970507) via ESMTP id PAA16489 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:29:23 -0700 env-from (mgix@nothingreal.com) Received: from void (lax-ca62-01.ix.netcom.com [207.93.37.97]) by multi11.netcomi.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA29324 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 17:29:20 -0500 Message-ID: <344E7DB2.167E@nothingreal.com> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:26:58 -0700 From: Emmanuel Mogenet Organization: Nothing Real, LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Step by step of my experience Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hi guys, I've tried to boot Linux on my old clunky R5k this morning, and I thought I'd share the step by step with the list. Basically, I've tried to boot off an EFS filesystem (d4), and here's how I went about it: 1. /d4 is my third scsi disk, with EFS (/dev/sdc under linux) 2. My irix kernel is in /unix on first disk (/dev/sda), which is XFS. Which is OK, since only the kernel is on XFS and the loader can handle it. 3. mkdir /d4/lsgi 4. Put ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/test/vmlinux-970916-efs.gz in /d4/lsgi 5. Put ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com:/pub/mips-linux/root-be-0.00.cpio.gz in /d4/lsgi 6. Extract root-be-0.00.cpio.gz in /d4: cd /d4 gzip -dc lsgi/root-be-0.00.cpio.gz | cpio -icvd 7. Install kernel on / cd /d4/lsgi gzip -d vmlinux-970916-efs.gz cp vmlinux-970916-efs /vmlinux 8. Reboot, go to maintenance mode, launch sash and type: scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)/vmlinux root=/dev/sdc1 7. The kernel booted, said a great many (good) things and froze with the following messages: VFS: mounted root (efs filesystem) readonly EFS: inode 0x30301 has >EFS_MAX_EXTENTS (43) EFS: <6> attempt to access beyond end of device 08:21 rw=0 want=1190802192, limit=4191574 Conclusion: Wait for Ralf to finish the EFS driver ! This is the exact bug he was talking about. Also: I read a few mails about typing, under sash, the following: boot /vmlinux root=/dev/sdc1 Well, it doesn't work. First, the syntax for the sash boot command in my PROM is: boot -f -n Second, when I did boot -f /vmlinux -n root=/dev/sdc1, it just loaded the kernel, but didn't jump into it. It just told me: the entry address is . When I did go , it ran linux, but tried to boot off tftp. Obviously it ignored the args. I'm just wondering: is there many different versions of sash out there ? I'm off trying to boot off tftpd. I'll keep the list posted. Ciao, - Mgix -- ________________________________________________________________________________ Emmanuel Mogenet PGP Key on Request