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 QAA17635 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 16:35:24 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id QAA13185 for linux-list; Sat, 1 May 1999 16:33:08 -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 QAA02867 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 16:33:06 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (jcoffin@sv.usweb.com) Received: from sv.usweb.com (null-client16.sf.usweb.com [207.138.177.16] (may be forged)) 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 TAA03720 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 19:33:05 -0400 (EDT) mail_from (jcoffin@sv.usweb.com) Received: (qmail 16255 invoked by uid 500); 1 May 1999 23:40:55 -0000 To: ulfc@thepuffingroup.com CC: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: RE: Yet Closer From: Jeff Coffin Date: 01 May 1999 16:40:54 -0700 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk > Don't you see anything at all, or does it hang after freeing PROM > memory? There was a problem with the PROM memory freeing on newer > PROM's, which Thomas recently solved. I don't think he has uploaded > a new kernel since then.. > I can probably upload a new one if this is your problem. I think it's something else. Here's what I get (this is from ralf's suggestion, didn't quite work for me) : >> boot vmlinux root=/dev/sdb1 init=/bin/sh 115360+19584+3136+334528+42744d+4248+6368 entry: 0x8bfa8850 ARCH: SGI-IP22 PROMLIB: SGI ARCS firmware Version 1 Revision 10 PROMLIB: Total free ram 65839104 bytes (64296K,62MB) CPU: MIPS-R5000 FPU ICACHE DCACHE SCACHE Loading R4000 MMU routines. CPU revision is: 00002310 Primary instruction cache 32kb, linesize 32 bytes) Primary data cache 32kb, linesize 32 bytes) Linux version 2.2.1 (tsbogend@james.franken.de) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #519 Mon 9 MC: SGI memory controller Revision 3 R4600/R5000 SCACHE size 512K, linesize 32 bytes. calculating r4koff... 000dbd55(900437) zs0: console input Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530) Calibrating delay loop... 179.81 BogoMIPS Memory: 60908k/196140k available (1172k kernel code, 2208k data) Checking for 'wait' instruction... available. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP Starting kswapd v 1.5 initialize_kbd: Keyboard reset failed, no ACK SGI Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.00 Keyboard timeout[2] Keyboard timeout[2] tty00 at 0xbfbd9830 (irq = 21) is a Zilog8530 tty01 at 0xbfbd9838 (irq = 21) is a Zilog8530 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured DS1286 Real Time Clock Driver v1.0 streamable misc devices registered (keyb:150, gfx:148) RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size wd33c93-0: chip=WD33c93B/13 no_sync=0xff no_dma=0 debug_flags=0x00 setup_args=,,,,,,,,, Version 1.25 - 09/Jul/1997, Compiled Mar 29 1999 at 01:13:15 scsi0 : SGI WD93 scsi : 1 host. sending SDTR 0103013f0csync_xfer=2c Vendor: SGI Model: IBM DORS-32160 D Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 sending SDTR 0103013f0csync_xfer=2c Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST31055N 2 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total. SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4197405 [2049 MB] [2.0 GB] SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2069860 [1010 MB] [1.0 GB] sgiseeq.c: David S. Miller (dm@engr.sgi.com) eth0: SGI Seeq8003 08:00:69:0a:43:7c Sending BOOTP requests.... OK IP-Config: Got BOOTP answer from 192.168.254.20, my address is 192.168.254.30 Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing prom memory: 0k freed Freeing unused kernel memory: 52k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console. --jeff