From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from deliverator.sgi.com (deliverator.sgi.com [204.94.214.10]) by lara.stud.fh-heilbronn.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA11929 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:32:44 +0200 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by deliverator.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id MAA05626; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 12:28:10 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id MAA74071 for linux-list; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 12:22:34 -0700 (PDT) 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 MAA76424 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 12:22:31 -0700 (PDT) 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 MAA05027 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 12:22:30 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (m_thrope@rigelfore.com) Received: (qmail 13651 invoked from network); 18 Jul 1999 19:35:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rigelfore.com) (192.168.42.2) by 192.168.42.1 with SMTP; 18 Jul 1999 19:35:29 -0000 Message-ID: <37922879.C3136AE3@rigelfore.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 12:18:17 -0700 From: Eric Melville Organization: iLL X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sgi Subject: Re: 200mhz indy References: <3773BD69.DF77FC27@rigelfore.com> <19990628131216.C735@uni-koblenz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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?