FW: Debain Mips (base.2_2.2.tgz) What kernels are best ?
As per Staf's suggestion to post to debian-mips@lists.debian.org
I found only ONE debian base system on the NET.
ftp://ftp.uni-mainz.de/pub/Linux/debian-local/mips/
Does any one know of any more current ones.
I am new to debian & mips but so far find it extremely good.
I have installed it on an indigo2 by unconventional means but seems to be
booting fine.
I just added mtab, fstab, uncommented ttyS0 line in inittab, & renamed
/sbin/unconfigured.sh
& mkswap /dev/sda2.
The latest kernel posted on debian ftp sites ...
Linux version 2.4.16 (root@nocontrol) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian
prerelease)) #1 Sun Dec 16 16:38:44 CET 2001
... seems to work on very basic commands (so far) :)/
Does any one know of any more current base root systems ?
PS ... The Boot log is attached at end of message.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: staf wagemakers [SMTP:staf.wagemakers@advalvas.be]
> Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2002 6:22 am
> To: Salisbury, Roger G
> Subject: Re: Debain Mips (base.2_2.2.tgz) What kernels are best ?
>
> Hi Roger,
>
> My howto is a bit outdated I didn't had the time to keep it up to date or
> to
> play with my Indy... so i don't know which kernel is best to install.
>
> Therefor I suggest to post your questions to debian-mips mailinglist,
> I'm sure the more experienced users are willing to help you.
>
> kind regards,
>
> --
> staf
>
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:18:54PM +1100, Salisbury, Roger G wrote:
> > Staf
> >
> > Thanks for your howto. http://stafwag.f2g.net/indy/
> >
> > The documentation at
> >
> >
> http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-mips/current/do
> c/
> >
> > is very vague.
> >
> > So I am impressed by yours.
> >
> > The "base.tar.gz" was only alerted to me by the trying what seemed
> > appropriate from my view point.
> >
> > Heres how it went ..........
> >
> > 1/ Downloaded root.tar.gz ; Down load "linux (kernel)" from the above
> site.
> > 2/ mkfs /dev/sdb1
> > 3/ mkdir /sdb1
> > 4/ mount /dev/sdb1 /sdb1 ; cp root.tar.gz /sdb1; cd /sdb1
> > 5/ gunzip root.tar ; tar xvf root.tar
> > 6/ cd debian-mips-root ; tar cvf root_no1st_dir.tar *
> > 7/ cp tar cvf root_no1st_dir.tar /sdb1
> > 8/ cd /sdb1; tar xvf root_no1st_dir.tar ;cd / ;umount /sdb1
> > 9/ ./dvhtool -d /dev/sda --unix-to-vh linuxkernel lindeb
> > 10/ sync; halt
> > 11/ 5 > Prom
> > 12/ boot -f lindeb root=/dev/sdb1 console=ttyS0
> >
> > An "inittab BusyBox" installation program will automatically run with
> > many options.
> >
> > ONE option is to install the base.tar.gz program.
> >
> > NOW I have finally found it. Yours !!! base system & howto after much
> > searching ...
> >
> > Questions from: http://stafwag.f2g.net/indy/
> >
> > tar xzvf kernel-image-2.4.0-test9-ip22-r4k.tgz &
> > tar xzvf /path/base.2_2.2.tgz are mentioned in your Howto.
> > But the more recent kernels were not.
> > Which is the best kernel to run? _______________These 3 I also loaded
> from
> > your site.
> > Can these be run with the 2_2.2 base installed?
> > 2,010,572 kernel-image-2_4_16-ip22-r4k.gz
> > 1,763,858 kernel-image-2_4_2-ip22-r4k.gz
> > 1,809,323 kernel-image-2_4_3-ip22-r4k.gz
> > Regards Roger
> > Australia
>
>> boot -f linux root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0
ARCH: SGI-IP22
PROMLIB: ARC firmware Version 1 Revision 10
CPU: MIPS-R4000 FPU<MIPS-R4000FPC> ICACHE DCACHE SCACHE
CPU revision is: 00000430
FPU revision is: 00000500
Primary instruction cache 8kb, linesize 16 bytes.
Primary data cache 8kb, linesize 16 bytes.
Secondary cache sized at 1024K linesize 128 bytes.
TLB has 48 entries.
Linux version 2.4.16 (root@nocontrol) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian
prerelease)) #1 Sun Dec 16 16:38:44 CET 2001
MC: SGI memory controller Revision 3
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 00001000 @ 00000000 (reserved)
memory: 00001000 @ 00001000 (reserved)
memory: 00207000 @ 08002000 (reserved)
memory: 00537000 @ 08209000 (usable)
memory: 000c0000 @ 08740000 (ROM data)
memory: 03800000 @ 08800000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 49152
zone(0): 49152 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0) root=/dev/sda1
console=ttyS0
Calibrating system timer... 500000 [100.00 MHz CPU]
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
zs0: console input
Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530), 9600 baud
Calibrating delay loop... 49.86 BogoMIPS
Memory: 59564k/62684k available (1732k kernel code, 3120k reserved, 157k
data, 84k init)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
initialize_kbd: Keyboard failed self test
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed)
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4)
DS1286 Real Time Clock Driver v1.0
streamable misc devices registered (keyb:150, gfx:148)
block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
sgiseeq.c: David S. Miller (dm@engr.sgi.com)
eth0: SGI Seeq8003 08:00:69:07:bf:50
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
wd33c93-0: chip=WD33c93B/13 no_sync=0xff no_dma=0 debug_flags=0x00
setup_args=,,,,,,,,,
Version 1.25 - 09/Jul/1997, Compiled Dec 16 2001 at 16:56:27
wd33c93-1: chip=WD33c93B/13 no_sync=0xff no_dma=0 debug_flags=0x00
setup_args=,,,,,,,,,
Version 1.25 - 09/Jul/1997, Compiled Dec 16 2001 at 16:56:27
scsi0 : SGI WD93
scsi1 : SGI WD93
sending SDTR 0103013f0csync_xfer=2c Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15150N
Rev: 0023
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sending SDTR 0103013f0csync_xfer=2c Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15150N
Rev: 0023
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sending SDTR -REJ- Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-3401TA Rev: 0283
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 8388315 512-byte hdwr sectors (4295 MB)
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5
SCSI device sdb: 8388315 512-byte hdwr sectors (4295 MB)
sdb: sdb1 < sdb5 >
SGI Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.00
tty00 at 0xbfbd9830 (irq = 29) is a Zilog8530
tty01 at 0xbfbd9838 (irq = 29) is a Zilog8530
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing prom memory: 768kb freed
Freeing unused kernel memory: 84k freed
Adding Swap: 524276k swap-space (priority -1)
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deb4indy login: root
Last login: Wed Jan 9 03:23:53 2002 on ttyS0
Linux deb4indy 2.4.16 #1 Sun Dec 16 16:38:44 CET 2001 mips unknown
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