Hi Patrick, On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 08:23:33AM -0800, Patrick Kirchner wrote: > Thanks for the reply Guido. I tried that root.tar.gz package you described. > For the dhcp kernel file I used linuxrc, which I believe was correct?, but I > ended up getting a kernel panic error. > In the meantime I grabbed base2_2.2.tgz from somewhere that I can't remember > now and after booting one of Glaurung's precompiled R5000 O2 kernels, I got > past the "unable to open intial console" until the unconfigured.sh script > shut me down. I edited the unconfigured.sh script to just run /bin/bash and > finally got a command prompt!!! Oh...we're talking about an O2 here - then linuxrc and the tftpboot images are of little use since there's no O2 support in it, the root.tar.gz should work anyways.
> I was then able to partition the blank hard drive, formatted the file system, > extracted the base2_2.2.tgz to create the root filesystem and made one > partition a swap file, but now I'm at a bit of a loss. > Would the next logical step be to install a boot loader to boot Glaurung's > kernel from the hard drive instead of from TFTP? > Would you suggest arcboot for the boot loader? Or should I use Yamon? Both yamon and arcboot need some adjustemnts to boot O2 kernels - arcboot is SGI centric so adding O2 support shouldn't be hard. Can't you just use dvhtool to put the kernel into the volume header as described on: http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/linux-mips/indy-boot/indy-hd-boot-micro-howto.html This should work for the O2 as well. Regards, -- Guido
