200mhz indy

200mhz indy

[Eric Melville]

i have an r4400 revision 6 200mhz indy. i tried to get linux working at
about the time the 2.2.1 kernel was released, but it wouldn't go. any
chance i'd have better luck now?

-E

Re: 200mhz indy

[Ralf Baechle]

On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 10:33:29AM -0700, Eric Melville wrote:

> i have an r4400 revision 6 200mhz indy. i tried to get linux working at
> about the time the 2.2.1 kernel was released, but it wouldn't go. any
> chance i'd have better luck now?

Yes, we've fixed a bug freeing memory used by the PROMs and I'm almost
certain that this bug caused your 6.0 machine to freeze.

Iff that still doesn't help, could you do some experiment for me?  I want
to know if the problem is really related to the CPU version 6.0 and you
seem to have multiple Indys.  Could just try and put the R4400 6.0 module
into the Indy which seems to be fine with Linux and report your findings?

(Swapping a CPU module is easy with Indys, SGI did nice work on that.)

  Ralf

Re: 200mhz indy

[Eric Melville]

ok, this morning i successfully booted my r4400 rev. 6.0 indy! thanks
for the help... but now i've got a problem installing it. i'm a little
low on disk space for the whole hardhat archive. i was thinking i could
dump the rpms to a cd and then hook me external scsi cdrom to the indy,
however the root fs for hardhat setup seems to be missing mount, plus i
don't know if the redhat installer can be "tricked" like that (i have NO
redhat experience).

-E

> > i have an r4400 revision 6 200mhz indy. i tried to get linux working at
> > about the time the 2.2.1 kernel was released, but it wouldn't go. any
> > chance i'd have better luck now?
> 
> Yes, we've fixed a bug freeing memory used by the PROMs and I'm almost
> certain that this bug caused your 6.0 machine to freeze.
> 
> Iff that still doesn't help, could you do some experiment for me?  I want
> to know if the problem is really related to the CPU version 6.0 and you
> seem to have multiple Indys.  Could just try and put the R4400 6.0 module
> into the Indy which seems to be fine with Linux and report your findings?

Re: 200mhz indy

[Edwin Hakkennes]

Hi Eric,

> 
> ok, this morning i successfully booted my r4400 rev. 6.0 indy! thanks
> for the help... but now i've got a problem installing it. i'm a little
> low on disk space for the whole hardhat archive. i was thinking i could
> dump the rpms to a cd and then hook me external scsi cdrom to the indy,
> however the root fs for hardhat setup seems to be missing mount, plus i
> don't know if the redhat installer can be "tricked" like that (i have NO
> redhat experience).
> 

I didn't try this, but it should work. At least it works with
redhat-alpha.

If you can get the kernel loaded and recognising the CD, it should be
do-able. Just boot the kernel with vmlinux root=/dev/scd0 

You can't just dump the RPMS to the CD. The whole install image should
be on the CD, it should be mountable as a rootfs.

Beware that there are quite some absolute symlinks. They could pose
problems. Make sure that mkisofs picks the right contents in this case.
(e.g. sbin/init instead of /sbin/init)


BTW: I'm trying to come up with recompiled rpm for the updates relative to
HardHat. Is anyone interested in these?

Greetings and good luck,

Edwin Hakkennes

Re: 200mhz indy

[Edwin Hakkennes]

Hi Eric,

> 
> ok, this morning i successfully booted my r4400 rev. 6.0 indy! thanks
> for the help... but now i've got a problem installing it. i'm a little
> low on disk space for the whole hardhat archive. i was thinking i could
> dump the rpms to a cd and then hook me external scsi cdrom to the indy,
> however the root fs for hardhat setup seems to be missing mount, plus i
> don't know if the redhat installer can be "tricked" like that (i have NO
> redhat experience).
> 

I didn't try this, but it should work. At least it works with
redhat-alpha.

If you can get the kernel loaded and recognising the CD, it should be
do-able. Just boot the kernel with vmlinux root=/dev/scd0 

You can't just dump the RPMS to the CD. The whole install image should
be on the CD, it should be mountable as a rootfs.

Beware that there are quite some absolute symlinks. They could pose
problems. Make sure that mkisofs picks the right contents in this case.
(e.g. sbin/init instead of /sbin/init)


BTW: I'm trying to come up with recompiled rpm for the updates relative to
HardHat. Is anyone interested in these?

Greetings and good luck,

Edwin Hakkennes

Re: 200mhz indy

[Ralf Baechle]

On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 03:30:53PM +0200, Edwin Hakkennes wrote:

> BTW: I'm trying to come up with recompiled rpm for the updates relative to
> HardHat. Is anyone interested in these?

The update will be huge.  I've compiled about 80% of the Redhat 6.0
packages for MIPS and work on the rest.  It's basically more like a
Rought Cuts II than an update.  So I'd appreciate if somebody could
tackle the installer such that all in all we end up with a RH 6.0
based distribution.

  Ralf

Re: 200mhz indy

[Alex deVries]

I'm working on the installer from 6.0 as we speak...

- A

-- 
Alex deVries, puffin on LinuxNet.
Linux on HP PA RISC. The final frontier.

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 03:30:53PM +0200, Edwin Hakkennes wrote:
> 
> > BTW: I'm trying to come up with recompiled rpm for the updates relative to
> > HardHat. Is anyone interested in these?
> 
> The update will be huge.  I've compiled about 80% of the Redhat 6.0
> packages for MIPS and work on the rest.  It's basically more like a
> Rought Cuts II than an update.  So I'd appreciate if somebody could
> tackle the installer such that all in all we end up with a RH 6.0
> based distribution.
> 
>   Ralf
> 

Re: 200mhz indy

[Ralf Baechle]

On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 06:17:14PM -0400, Alex deVries wrote:

> I'm working on the installer from 6.0 as we speak...

I should have reached 80% of the RH 6.0 packages.  The Indy is still
compiling, a 180MHz R5k is annoyingly slow for building 300 packages ...

  Ralf