Giuseppe Sacco wrote: [snip] > > > Due to some not-yet-debugged quirk in the boot image generator > > > it needs actually ~140 MB to boot. > > > > Thanks for the answer, Thiemo :-( > > > > How may I help debugging this problem? > > I just tried your debian-sarge-chroot[1] and vmlinux-2.6.9rc2-ip32[2], > this way: > > bootp(): root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.2.34:/dati/nfsroot/sgi > ip=192.168.2.52:192.168.2.34:192.168.2.34:255.255.255.0:sgi rw ip=auto should do, if the dhcpd is set up correctly. At least this works for me. > and the machine booted correctly. :-) > > [1]http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ths/linux-mips/debian-chroots/mips-sarge-2004-07-31.tar.gz > [2]http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ths/linux-mips/kernel/vmlinux-2.6.9rc2-ip32 > > I had many problems using ip=dhcp since it seems to be broken and the > DHCP server never got a DHCP request, so the machine used 62.0.0.0 as > local IP and 255.255.255.255 as boot server! The former is probably the netaddr from the PROM environment. The latter is correct as broadcast address used to ask the server for a client ip. [snip] > and it did booted and mounted the local root filesystem. Great. > > So, next question: is X working on this machine? I heard it does. I'd like to hear if it works for you. :-) Thiemo
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