From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 17 May 2004 16:56:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from uswgco35.uswest.com ([IPv6:::ffff:199.168.32.124]:52464 "EHLO uswgco35.uswest.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 17 May 2004 16:56:00 +0100 Received: from egate-co2.uswc.uswest.com (egate-co2.uswc.uswest.com [151.119.214.10]) by uswgco35.uswest.com (8/8) with ESMTP id i4HFtvfB009879 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 09:55:58 -0600 (MDT) Received: from wopr.qwest.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by egate-co2.uswc.uswest.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4HFtuOR025432 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 09:55:56 -0600 (MDT) Received: from cyberMalex.com (igate.qwest.net [10.8.16.41]) by wopr.qwest.net (8.11.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id i4HFttH22496 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 11:55:56 -0400 Message-ID: <40A8E08B.7070203@cyberMalex.com> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 11:55:55 -0400 From: Alexander Markley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031009 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: SGI O2 MIPS R5000 bootp problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 5047 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: alex@cyberMalex.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Hi. I just get an SGI O2 with a MIPS R5000 chip in it, and I'd love to run linux on it. The machine seems to be in working order, and has been known to boot into IRIX in the recent past. I have gotten the debian tftp boot images and things, and have properly set up dhcp and tftp, but I cannot make this machine boot! ... > boot f bootp():r5000_boot.img Setting $netaddr to 192.168.1.235 (from server ) Obtaining r5000_boot.img from server 7536 Cannot load bootp():r5000_boot.img. Range check failure: text start 0x88802000, size 0x1d70. Text section would overwrite an already loaded program.Unable to execute bootp():r5000_boot.img: not enough space Unable to load bootp():r5000_boot.img: not enough space > ... I'm not sure why this doesn't work for me when it works for everyone else... Is it because my machine only has 64 MB of ram? Another strange bit is that this kernel does load and boot fine: http://www.linux-mips.org/~glaurung/O2/linux-2.6.1/kernel/vmlinux64 Of course, it can't finish booting since I didn't provide a root FS, but I wonder why the PROM doesn't want to jump to the debian image? I'll keep trying different things, and keep you guys posted. In the meantime, and input would be much appriciated. Also, I haven't joined the list, so CCing me would also be appriciated. ttyl --Alex