Re: install from CD on an Indy (and others)

[Simone Caronni <slaanesh@fastwebnet.it>]

Sorry, but I didn't think it could just be the tftpboot.img renamed; I 
supposed it could be used to boot all the SGI machines supported by 
Linux. I should have looked at the size. ;-)

Anyway, I made a cdrom with the image and tried to boot that on the O2. 
I simply got an "efs read error" at the prom prompt, without reaching 
the "entry point at [...]" I was hoping for.

Shouldn't it reach at least the entry point and then crash at boot? 
Being unable to load it from cd seems an image problem and not a kernel 
problem lacking support for the O2...

Thanks for your reply and your time.

Simone

Guido Guenther wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 05:17:07PM +0200, Simone Caronni wrote:
>  
>
> > I've seen Gentoo/MIPS uses a Debian boot image (kernel 2.4.19) in a single
> > file (ECOFF, not ELF). Searching on debian mailing lists showed nothing.
> >    
> Look on any of debian's ftp server in
> debian/dists/woody/main/disks-mips/r4k-ip22/ for tftpboot.img.
> It's an ECOFF. This image doesn't support the O2 though.
>
>  
>
> > Since that it's used to install any SGI machine for Gentoo it should contain
> > support for all that is mentioned in the compatibility list at the top.
> >    
> I doubt that the bootimage supports more than IP22 (i.e.
> Indy/I2/Challenge S) but would like to be proven wrong since we could
> then add support for the other subarches too.
>
>  
>
> > Can also someone please tell me how to make a boot cd out of it?
> >    
> Search the list archives. Florian Lohoff wrote a tool for that.
> -- Guido
>