Re: no init found (IP27)

[David Komanek <xdavid@lib-eth.natur.cuni.cz>]

Thank you very much. Since the only reason I will continue with sgi 
hardware are the disks, is there a way to convert sgi's disk connector to 
a normal scsi one plus power suply ? It is probably question for quite 
different list, but if it is not possible, it will be thrown from the very 
high rock in my case :-)

Thanks again,

  David


On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Thiemo Seufer wrote:

> David Komanek wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying to replace IRIX with Debian on my IP27 machine. I have
> > downloaded debian-31r0a-mips-netinst.iso, burned a CD on CD-RW which seems
> > this media type is not supported on my platform. So I downloaded the files
> > to my IRIX machine to a free xfs partition. Now, using the guide from
> > http://caradhras.ccslab.aueb.gr/index.html I am able to boot a kernel
> > image (which can be also downloaded from there). It recognizes all disks,
> > network card etc. but the kernel panices with
> >
> > "No init found"
> >
> > messsage. init=/bin/sh or init=/bin/bash passed as a kernel load parameter
> > does not work to.
> >
> > Is there any chance to load the debian installer without the need of tftp
> > ?
>
> Not yet, for several reasons:
>
> a) There is currently no disk bootloader in Debian which works for ip27.
> b) SCSI disk access was only fixed a few days ago upstream. The old patch
>   won't give reliable operation.
> c) A dirty hack for PCI detection is still needed, that's part of the
>   mentioned patch.
> d) No debian kernel for ip27 is available yet, an experimental version
>   is occasionally updated at http://people.debian.org/~ths/mips-kernels/,
>   the current version is broken for ip27. I hope to update to 2.6.12 the
>   next days.
> e) Due to those preliminaries, no serious effort was made to support ip27
>   in debian-installer.
>
> That said, I have CVS HEAD from linux-mips.org running on ip27 with a
> small patch, and the debian userland runs fine on the tftpbooted kernel.
>
>
> Thiemo