Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
Hi,
I again looking into getting my old SGI Indy and my newer Origin 300 system to
actually do sth. useful ;)
I got both hooked up into my rack and serial console attached to it, dhcp and
tftp so that the boxes can potentially boot via network.
Some information about my Origin 3000 I have collected here:
https://www.l00-bugdead-prods.de/origin.html
Regarding the old Indy, I was already asking over 2 years ago:
http://www.mail-archive.com/m...@openbsd.org/msg50839.html
Joel sent me a link to an ecoff kernel that time that I tried to boot, but
unfortunately that I do not have anymore, and also the link doesn't work
anymore.
I tried to boot an actual NetBSD ecoff kernel on that machine, but that also
did not went that far as I anticipated, and ended with an exception.
The actual IRIX on the disks is still booting, so the box should be OK:
I know an older NetBSD version was running on the machine some point in time,
I still need to find the harddisk where I have the installation on it.
I know both are not (yet ;) supported by OpenBSD as the sgi.html states.
However, IIRC, on older versions of the page it stated for the Origin that it
may be supported, but that was still untested. Now it states that the Origin
300 is not supported yet. I guess someone tested this meanwhile and it was not
working?
reading the INSTALL.sgi, for the IP35 based systems I should boot the IP27
bsd.rd. Trying this on the Origin 3000 ends up here:
bootp():
Setting $netaddr to 10.0.0.32 (from server )
Obtaining from server
5389376+728816 entry: 0xa800000000040000
ARCS64 Firmware Version 64.0
Found SGI-IP35, setting up.
Machine is in M mode.
And then it hangs here forever. I wonder whether that is actually expected at
that early stage? Or is it just because the serial port is not supported for
that machine?
I got an off-list reply where someone had a similar problem with his
onyx 4. He suggested to use the serial port instead of the console port
. So I did, plugged another serial cable to the serial port on the
i-brick and here it goes, the dmesg from the origin booting the
bsd.rd.IP27 ramdisk:
# cu -l /dev/tty03 -s 9600
Connected
Initial setup done, switching console.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1995-2010 OpenBSD. All rights reserved.
http://www.OpenBSD.org
OpenBSD 4.7-current (RAMDISK-IP27) #209: Tue Apr 27 15:53:49 MDT 2010
dera...@sgi.openbsd.org:/sys/arch/sgi/compile/RAMDISK-IP27
real mem = 1073741824 (1024MB)
rsvd mem = 20463616 (19MB)
avail mem = 994672640 (948MB)
mainbus0 at root: Unknown IP35 type 0
cpu0 at mainbus0 nasid 0: MIPS R12000 CPU rev 3.5 400 MHz, R12000 FPU
rev 3.5
cpu0: cache L1-I 32KB D 32KB 2 way, L2 8192KB 2 way
clock0 at mainbus0 nasid 0: ticker on int5 using count register
xbow0 at mainbus0 nasid 0: XXBow revision 2
xbridge0 at xbow0 widget 15: XBridge revision 2
xbpci0 at xbridge0 bus 0: 33 MHz PCI bus
pci0 at xbpci0 bus 0
ioc0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "SGI IOC3" rev 0x01
onewire0 at ioc0
ioc0: ethernet irq 4, xbow irq 62
ioc0: superio irq 0, xbow irq 61
com0 at ioc0 base 0x20178: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
com0: console
com1 at ioc0 base 0x20170: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
com1: probed fifo depth: 0 bytes
iockbc0 at ioc0
iec0 at ioc0: 128KB SSRAM, address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
nsphyter0 at iec0 phy 1: DP83843 10/100 PHY, rev. 0
lpt at ioc0 not configured
dsrtc0 at ioc0: DS1742W
ohci0 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "AT&T/Lucent USB 2-port" rev 0x10: irq 5,
xbow ir
q 60, version 1.0, legacy support
"TI TSB12LV22 FireWire" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 not configured
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0 "AT&T/Lucent OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
xbridge1 at xbow0 widget 14: XBridge revision 2
xbpci1 at xbridge1 bus 0: 66 MHz PCI bus
pci1 at xbpci1 bus 0
rd0: fixed, 10240 blocks
boot device: 'bootp()10.0.0.27:/' unrecognized.
root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b
erase ^?, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C, status ^T
Welcome to the OpenBSD/sgi 4.7 installation program.
(I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell?
thanks a lot for that hint.
now I need to check whether I really have no harddisk in the box, or
wheter I can plug in a usb drive.
or that I at least get it to boot via network, to not have a need
anymore to cross compile at all for the indigo, I hope.
I'll keep you updated.
cheers,
Sebastian
