Thanks a lot for your helpful advice, olivo.usal.es is now happily running
Debian GNU/Linux and XFree86 with a home built kernel.
Well, I still have some problems :(
Please keep in mind that olivo is at university (20min walk) and I can't
test thinks as I write.
o With the prebuilt kernel (from ftp.rfc822.org) over time (a day or
so) and heavy load (a kernel build) I get masive filesystem
corruption, so I am going diskless for now (it seams that the new
kernel from cvs also has problems with this).
In case this helps, this happend on the second scsi disk of a single
controler, kernel output:
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
wd33c93-0: chip=WD33c93B/13 no_sync=0xff no_dma=0 debug_flags=0x00
setup_args=,,,,,,,,,
Version 1.25 - 09/Jul/1997, Compiled Jun 15 2001 at 22:04:01
scsi0 : SGI WD93
sending SDTR 010301440csync_xfer=3c Vendor: FUJITSU Model: M2932S-512
Rev: 0110
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sending SDTR 0103013f0csync_xfer=2c Vendor: SGI Model: IBMDSAS-3540
Rev: S47K
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
o I am getting strange console behavior with my home built kernel from
latest sgi cvs (mostly sure this is my fault).
I don't get any output from the boot scripts, the last message I
see on the little blue square is: Freeing unused kernel memory:...
And the next thing I see is a login prompt and the top left
corner. Is console output going somewhere else? Should I change
/dev/console?
o OSLoadOptions just rembers the first 12 chars of its contents when
rebooting, but SystemPartition remembers 35 without problem. I know
that this is probably the know issue, but how can I give the kernel
parameters if they don't feet?
Maybe I could unset some variables to free some memory or use
OSLoadPartition to pass some parameters.
o I compiled the kernel with the cross devel rpm packages at sgi, is
that ok or what gcc/binutils should I use? Is it ok to build the
kernel with gcc-2.95.4 natively?
Thanks for a great job
Manuel
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