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 QAA40146 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id QAA25589 for linux-list; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:48:39 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.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 QAA93035 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:48:35 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (jcoffin@lil.sv.usweb.com) Received: from lil.sv.usweb.com ([207.44.155.155]) by sgi.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 QAA07214 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:48:32 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (jcoffin@lil.sv.usweb.com) Received: (qmail 10806 invoked by uid 500); 15 Oct 1998 23:46:33 -0000 To: Ulf Carlsson , linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Partial Success Report References: <19981016001717.B2072@zigzegv.ml.org> From: Jeff Coffin Date: 15 Oct 1998 16:46:29 -0700 In-Reply-To: Ulf Carlsson's message of Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:17:17 +0200 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Ulf Carlsson writes: > It *should* find an initial console if you have mounted the root > filesystem from the hardhat CD correctly. Maybe that's the problem, it all *looks* right. Is this the case for the harthat kernel as well as the 2.1.116 and 2.1.121 versions off the FTP server? Let's see if I have this straight: from the PROM, it I do boot bootp():/vmlinux and NFS is configured properly (more or less as per the HowTo) on the i386 box, the kernel will boot and find the NFS root filesystem as configured in exports or do I need to pass the kernel the nfsroot param to get it to properly mount the install root? > It would probably not make much difference, "Warning: unable to open > an initial console" isn't caused by a gfx board neither an old > kernel, but from an incorrect /dev/console. That's what I thought. I was speculating that the hardware trouble was causing the kerel hangs. > I'm currently running hardhat diskless, I'm only using the IRIX > harddrive when I boot (the bootp command is loaded from the > harddrive). Not from the PROM? How does that work? (I'm new to SGI's and getting IRIX up at all from just a CD and a new hard drive was a "learning experience") I'll play with it some more tonight or tomorrow when i have the time. Thanks for the suggestions. --jeff