From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 27 May 2004 19:33:55 +0100 (BST) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([IPv6:::ffff:204.127.198.35]:65229 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 May 2004 19:33:43 +0100 Received: from gentoo.org (pcp04939029pcs.waldrf01.md.comcast.net[68.48.72.58]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004052718333201300ffoh0e> (Authid: kumba12345); Thu, 27 May 2004 18:33:34 +0000 Message-ID: <40B63518.3020509@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 14:36:08 -0400 From: Kumba Reply-To: kumba@gentoo.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: help needed : cannot install linux on SGI O2 R5000 References: <200405271333.04712.maksik@gmx.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200405271333.04712.maksik@gmx.co.uk> 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: 5206 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: kumba@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Max Zaitsev wrote: > Hi List, > > couple of days ago I've acquired an oldish O2 box with 180MHz R5k CPU, 256MB > ram and ~10GB HD space. Since then I'm trying to get linux installed on that > thing, but apparently with no success. I've managed to connect it to a linux > box and get bootp() and NFS to work. However, I cannot find a working kernel/ > rootfs combination to proceed. > > As it follows from the mailing list postings I've read I shall try installing > gentoo distribution. However, the binary kernel for net-install from > http://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/mips/netboot/ip32/ does not seem to boot and > hangs straight after the download. The same applies to the older kernel image > located in the same place. > > What I found to work was the 64 bit binary kernel from glaurung > (http://www.linux-mips.org/~glaurung/). It boots nicely, but I have no root > partition to go on with. I've tried to use the contents of the initrd image > for gentoo netinstall, but it hangs in the busybox after diplaying one line > with version information. > > I would like to avoid installing the complete crosscompilation toolchain on my > linux box in order to get the recent CVS version of the kernel compiled. > Another point is that I have no idea what would be to configuration options > to get it to work on my O2. Apparently, it's not straitforward. Can somebody > point me a location of the working binary kernel for gentoo install or are > there better (or just other) solutions? The IP32 Netboot I have requires you to setup an NFS-exportable root for it to work properly, and it's advised you run off of serial console (if you aren't already). There should be an initrd link in the ip32 directory -- use that for NFS root, and pass at minimum 'root=/dev/nfs console=ttyS0,' (where is the speed your running serial console at) after 'bootp(): ', and you should see some data. If you are using serial console, double check to make sure the kb/mouse/monitor is unplugged, and the prom var 'console' is set to 'd1'. See if that gets you anywheres. --Kumba -- "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond