Re: Still Having Problems booting Linux on an Indy
Stuart,
I don't have an answer to your PROM question for you, but I can tell you
that I had no problem installing Debian 3.0r1 on my Indy R4600 and the
version command gives me the exact same output as yours.
As for sash, it lives on the volume header of any disk you have IRIX
stalled on. If you go into the command monitor and type "ls", you should
see something like:
>> ls
scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partions(8)/:
sgilabel ide sash
On an HD with debian installed, the list of files is different (usually
"unix" and "arcboot")
You can use dvhtool from a Debian installation to copy files to/from the
volume header. However, since you don't have Debian installed, this
leads to a chicken-and-egg problem. Maybe dvhtool is available for IRIX
also (I don't know jack about IRIX)
Chris
Stuart Longland wrote:
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> I've posted this before but there was no response, and I really want to
> find out what I'm doing wrong. Can someone please help me here??
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> Any assistance appreciated. The silence is getting deafening.
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> Stuart Longland
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> Hi,
> We've recently acquired a second hand Indy which we got mainly as a way
> of gaining experience with IRIX, but also to experiment with Linux on
> the MIPS architecture. However, today, after much struggling, I finally
> got the darn thing to fetch an IP via BOOTP (This was the easy bit) and
> download a kernel (this was what stumped me). Dispite this, the machine
> still doesn't boot, throwing up the error:
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> Command Monitor. Type "exit" or click on "done" to return to the menu.
> |> boot -f bootp()/tftpboot/tftpboot.img
> Setting $netaddr to 192.168.0.127 (from server 192.168.0.1)
> Obtaining /tftpboot/tftpboot.img from server 192.168.0.1
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> Cannot load bootp()/tftpboot/tftpboot.img.
> Illegal f_magic number 0x5330, expected MIPSELMAGIC or MIPSEBMAGIC.
> Unable to load bootp()/tftpboot/tftpboot.img: execute format error
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> I saw on http://www.linux-mips.org/technical_faq.html, that an old PROM
> version can cause this. Typing 'version' in the PROM console yeilds:
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> |> version
> PROM Monitor SGI Version 5.3 Rev B7 R4X00 IP24 Feb 16, 1995 (BE)
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> Is this sufficient or do I need to somehow update my PROM? If an
> update is necessary, where do I download the image and how do I flash
> the PROM?
>
> I've also seen that 'sash' can boot ELF binaries, where can I obtain
> this? I have two hard drives I'm using in this machine, a 4GB Quantum
> Atlas SCSI (currently loaded with IRIX) and a 2GB Seagate Barracuda (for
> my Linux installation). I'm guessing it will be somewhere on the 4GB
> drive, how would I load this onto the 2GB drive?
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> Any assistance appreciated
>
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