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 (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id QAA23072 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:07:21 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id QAA29143 for linux-list; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:06:44 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id QAA72932 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:06:41 -0800 (PST) mail_from (m_thrope@rigelfore.com) Received: from slug.rigelfore.com (c69494-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.2.21.88]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via SMTP id QAA00165 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:06:41 -0800 (PST) mail_from (m_thrope@rigelfore.com) Received: (qmail 5840 invoked from network); 15 Feb 1999 00:14:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rigelfore.com) (192.168.42.2) by 192.168.42.1 with SMTP; 15 Feb 1999 00:14:45 -0000 Message-ID: <36C76479.62B097D2@rigelfore.com> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:04:09 -0800 From: Eric Melville Organization: iLL X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: problem booting sgi linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk ok, i fixed my problem with /dev/console ... but now it stops just a few lines after that. this is printed to the screen: Adv: done running setup() Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed page fault from irq handler: 0000 $0: blah blah blah $4: blah blah blah $8: blah blah blah $12: blah blah blah $16: blah blah blah $20: blah blah blah $24: blah blah blah epc: 880e3e47 Status: 1004fc02 Cause: 00000008 Aiee, killing interrupt handler Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! In swapper task: not syncing then it's stuck... i could write down the "blah blah blah" numbers if they would be helpfull. any ideas? -E