Re: I have a heavy problem on O2(r5k) 180Mhz

[Crow Lim <whitecrw@netopia.snu.ac.kr>]

I made some good job on my O2.

using kernel 2.5.5 (64bit) of http://www.linux-mips.org/~glaurung

I boot up linux on my O2, using bootp(): and nfs root fs.

rootfs was
ftp://bolugftp.uni-bonn.de/pub/mips-linux/rootfs/experimental/debian-mips-rootfs-20010905.tar.gz

I see bash on my O2. ^^ ( == :) in S.Korea)

now, How can i install debian system?


2003-03-17 월 23:54, Frank Loeffler이(가) 씀:
> Hi,
> 
> Crow Lim wrote:
> > I tried to install debian-mips on my SGI O2(r5k).
> 
> I tried the same a few weeks ago, I did not succeed, but I also did not 
> give up yet.
> 
> > first of all, i tried boot from cdrom. but it doesn't work. :(
> Right.
> 
> > I read some articles on internet. I got SGI O2 can boot only irix cdrom.
> Or a specially build CD-image _maybe_, but I did not try this.
> 
> > so i tried to bootp(). with kernel of
> > http://www.linux-mips.org/~glaurung
> > and i successed to boot with nfs root.
> 
> Please tell us the kernel you used. For me only the 64bit version for 
> r5k with version 2.5.47 worked. The 32bit version booted, but had 
> problems while mounting root via nfs.
> 
> > but i had no root image(root is /sgifs on nfs). so i uncompressed
> > /cdrom/dists/woody/main/disks-mips/current/root.tar.gz to /sgifs
> 
> I did the same (besides the directory name). It is using that image and 
> startes the installer. After several kernel panics, hangs and so on 
> (also randomly sometimes) I could partition and format the harddisc and 
> load the basic system from the web. Then I got stuck with
> a) even more kernel panics
> b) readonly target partition in the middle of the install (probably
>     because of errors, but since there are no logfiles...)
> c) a dependency problem (I think it was 'awk', which it claimed to
>     be missing).
> So I decided to crosscompile a 2.4.20 for mips64 and try this. At the 
> moment I am still learning how to set up and use a crosscompiler, so 
> there is no further step from my side here.
> 
> > root(nfs) mount successful, but nothing on works.
> Please describe more what is happening. Did you try multiple times? 
> (Because in my case the very same procedure sometimes succeeded and 
> sometimes simply hung forever.)
> 
>  > How can I install debian on my O2? is there anything that i
> did wrong?
> 
> Well, according to all I have read, O2 is still unsupported, but with 
> patience, a little bit (more?) work and maybe luck you can do that by 
> hand somehow.
> 
> If you (or someone else) knows more about this, I will be happy to hear it.
> 
> Frank Loeffler
>