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 WAA80386 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:48:07 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id WAA56322 for linux-list; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:46:34 -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 WAA95588 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:46:32 -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 WAA04560 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:46:32 -0800 (PST) mail_from (m_thrope@rigelfore.com) Received: (qmail 7876 invoked from network); 17 Feb 1999 06:56:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rigelfore.com) (192.168.42.2) by 192.168.42.1 with SMTP; 17 Feb 1999 06:56:28 -0000 Message-ID: <36CA652D.5A165E86@rigelfore.com> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:43:57 -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: Re: able to bootp/NFS-install/reboot R4400SC Indy References: <199902170627.WAA09135@kilimanjaro.engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk drats... that's the kernel (er, one of the kernels) that hangs on "freeing unused kernel memory" for me :( -E > So, I've had an old Indy in my office, waiting for me to try installing > Linux on in my spare time, and today I finally got around to it. Lucky > for me I didn't try before today, because the kernel that finally worked > was the very latest, vmlinux-indy-990212. > > After the one in the big hardhat tar.gz file didn't work (no R4400SC > support) I hit the mailing list archive, found the pointer to > vmlinux-2.1.131 (which didn't work because it didn't have NFS), noticed > also vmlinux-sc-indy-2.1.116 (also didn't work, probably also no NFS), > and tried a couple of others while going through the archive. > vmlinux-indy-990205 got a little farther, but complained it couldn't > make a device node in the ram disk or some such thing. > > Anyway, vmlinux-indy-990212 was the winner: it booted up into the > installer, I was able to do a complete install (ignoring swap, as web > page says), and it's up and running. I'm sending this out to let those > who've been having trouble with Indy/R4400SC know that it can be done > now!