Mailing List Archive: MIPS32 O2 R5000

MIPS32 O2 R5000

Oct 28, 2004, 11:17 AM

Post #1 of 6 (2422 views)

Regards.

I have a problem with a SGI O2, Mips32, r5000 machine.

I have downloaded the ip32-r5k-20040806.img netboot image, and I boot
from SGI PROM... but when it's booting it freez out, or the monitor
changes like a rainbow...

What can I do? What's the problem?

the last thing I see is:

>bootp(): root=/dev/ram0
Setting $netaddr to 192.168.0.10 ( from server )
Obtaining from server
7774342+160714 entry: 0xfffffffffa0711020

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Re: MIPS32 O2 R5000 [ In reply to ]

Oct 28, 2004, 11:28 AM

Post #2 of 6 (2368 views)

Pápai Ádám wrote:
> Regards.
>
> I have a problem with a SGI O2, Mips32, r5000 machine.
>
>
> I have downloaded the ip32-r5k-20040806.img netboot image, and I boot
> from SGI PROM... but when it's booting it freez out, or the monitor
> changes like a rainbow...
>
> What can I do? What's the problem?
>
> the last thing I see is:
>
> >bootp(): root=/dev/ram0
> Setting $netaddr to 192.168.0.10 ( from server )
> Obtaining from server
> 7774342+160714 entry: 0xfffffffffa0711020
>

You are probably suffering from one of `kumba's shady ip32 kernels
(sorry, just had to throw that shot in there :). Try booting
http://dev.gentoo.org/~geoman/vmlinux64-2004-08-30.bz2, using the initrd
from http://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/mips/netboot/initrd/ as your
nfsroot. You could also use a stage3 as the nfsroot for that matter,
but the initrd is probably easier.

Steve

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Re: MIPS32 O2 R5000 [ In reply to ]

Oct 28, 2004, 12:59 PM

Post #3 of 6 (2372 views)

Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~geoman/vmlinux64-2004-08-30.bz2, using the initrd
> from http://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/mips/netboot/initrd/ as your
> nfsroot. You could also use a stage3 as the nfsroot for that matter,
> but the initrd is probably easier.
>

Ahh now it's booting. But It says "VFS: Unable to mount. etc :)

What do I have to add to Boot param?

Now I boot with: bootp(): nfsroot=192.168.0.2:/home/wooh/install/mips/sgifs

sgifs is the initrd from kumba. What else do I have to add on boot?:)

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Re: MIPS32 O2 R5000 [ In reply to ]

freshy98 at gmx

Oct 28, 2004, 1:12 PM

Post #4 of 6 (2371 views)

You forgot to add root=/dev/nfs after bootp():

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pápai Ádám" <wooh@wooh.hu>
To: <gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] MIPS32 O2 R5000

> Stephen P. Becker wrote:
>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~geoman/vmlinux64-2004-08-30.bz2, using the initrd
>> from http://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/mips/netboot/initrd/ as your nfsroot.
>> You could also use a stage3 as the nfsroot for that matter, but the
>> initrd is probably easier.
>>
>
> Ahh now it's booting. But It says "VFS: Unable to mount. etc :)
>
> What do I have to add to Boot param?
>
> Now I boot with: bootp():
> nfsroot=192.168.0.2:/home/wooh/install/mips/sgifs
>
> sgifs is the initrd from kumba. What else do I have to add on boot?:)
>
>
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Re: MIPS32 O2 R5000 [ In reply to ]

Oct 28, 2004, 1:13 PM

Post #5 of 6 (2368 views)

Pápai Ádám wrote:
> Stephen P. Becker wrote:
>
>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~geoman/vmlinux64-2004-08-30.bz2, using the
>> initrd from http://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/mips/netboot/initrd/ as your
>> nfsroot. You could also use a stage3 as the nfsroot for that matter,
>> but the initrd is probably easier.
>>
>
> Ahh now it's booting. But It says "VFS: Unable to mount. etc :)
>
> What do I have to add to Boot param?
>
> Now I boot with: bootp(): nfsroot=192.168.0.2:/home/wooh/install/mips/sgifs
>
> sgifs is the initrd from kumba. What else do I have to add on boot?:)
>
>

Don't forget to append either ip=bootp or ip=dhcp when booting.

Steve

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Re: MIPS32 O2 R5000 [ In reply to ]

Oct 28, 2004, 4:02 PM

Post #6 of 6 (2367 views)

Pápai Ádám wrote:
> Regards.
>
> I have a problem with a SGI O2, Mips32, r5000 machine.

At last, my problem has solved. special thanks to frehsy98.

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