Jeremy Stanley wrote:
From what I remember of the Origin 200 (I have one sitting in a closet collecting dust) there is no framebuffer on them, usually. No graphics card at all. That was the standard for those units.On 2013-01-17 17:20:24 +0000 (+0000), Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: [...]it appears to "get lost" at the point where I'd expect the kernel to start generating console output[...] I assume you're bootstrapping it via serial console. Is there any chance the kernel's console is defaulting to the framebuffer instead? Usually you'd need to override that behavior with a kernel command line option (console=ttyS0,9600n8 or similar).
I always just ran IRIX on mine, because back when I was running it big-endian linux for these machines was still very much in its infancy.