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Re: Boot problems with SGI Indy red ligth flashing



On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:41:05PM +0200, Soeren Laursen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have triede several kernels 2.2.14 2.4.0 and 2.4.3 in ecoff and elf
> binary format.
> 
> However I have not been able go on beyon download the kernel and start the
> booting.
> 
> it either:
> 
> 1) Get it's ip-address and start the downloading and the stops and ofter
> 2-3 minutes it begins to flash the red ligth. It is suppose to be a memory
> failer and I have tried to change the memory. For fun I added the mem=64m
> to see if it had any effect it had. Now the kernel panic. The 2.4.x kernel 
> start flashing the red ligth and panics if I add the mem=XXm.
> 
> 2) The kernel just panic this always happens with the 2.2.14 kernels.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Soeren 
> 
> Got 4 indy's and a challenge SMP server (That is not supported).

Did you read the indigo2-howto on http://oss.sgi.com/mips/howtos.html

and

http://www.stafwag.f2s.com/indy/?lang=eng&top=indy&try=1?

By the way I am working on the bootfloppies, but actually my job take hardly all my time.

-- 


Henning



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