On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 05:46:27PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > Setting the SystemPartition to > scsi(0)cdrom(6)rdisk(0)partition(8) and typeing "ls" shows the > only file "linux" which is the tftpboot.img in the usual boot-floppies > directory. > > Booting the file with "linux" on the prompt gives an: > > >> setenv SystemPartition scsi(0)cdrom(6)rdisk(0)partition(8) > >> ls > scsi(0)cdrom(6)rdisk(0)partition(8)/: > linux > >> linux > 2027520error on vh read > > Cannot load scsi(0)cdrom(6)rdisk(0)partition(8)/linux > Error reading text section: start 0x880020000, size 0x1ef000. > Unable to execute linux > >> Ok - This really seems to be a read error - I just retried with a created CD-RW (Once i got a working Blank CD-RW media and a CD-Rom capable of reading CD-RWs - Mine were to old) and it works without a problem. The kernel comes up as expected and i tried to start installing - A little shock appeared as it seems the default kernel does not include scsi cdrom support. It might be necessary to set the "retry" count in the device section to something >0 - I dont know if this has any effect on this. So - we will have booting iso cdroms for debian-mips/sgi - Now we have to think about teaching arcboot to read an iso9660 filesystem or to just put the different IPx version kernels+ram-disks into the volume header. Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 Nine nineth on september the 9th Welcome to the new billenium
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