We have debian running on a sgi altix 350 and a sgi altix 3700 here. I haven't had time to try the latest etch netinst cd, but normally you just have to append console=ttySG0 to the boot options.
On April 19, 2007 09:52 am, Tim Cutts wrote:
> On 17 Apr 2007, at 9:02 am, dann frazier wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:14:32PM -0600, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> >> I have 2 sgi altix 330s
> >> I would like a free distrobution that I can run on them.
> >
> > fyi, the just-released Debian 4.0 ('etch') should work.
>
> Hmm - I have an Altix 330 kicking about too, and I've tried that.
> It's going to require some help, I think. :-)
>
> I went into EFI command mode, and then ran elilo. The kernel loaded
> from the CD fine, and began to run:
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