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From: Oscar Almer <o.almer@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-mips@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] SGI O2 R5000 on initial boot screen freaks out
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:33:12
Message-Id: 757fbd8104111614332ebf960e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-mips] SGI O2 R5000 on initial boot screen freaks out by "Stephen P. Becker"
1 Hi
2
3 in my humble experience, it is possible to get an O2 to boot off a CD
4 instead of a NFS partition by setting a PROM variable (OSLoadOptions
5 or something like it) to point to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. It saves the
6 hassle of having to set up a NFS server thing if you never have done
7 so before (like me).
8 Disclaimer: I am not a developer, nor anything else. It just happened
9 that that worked for me, so i thought i'd mention it.
10
11
12 On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:07:40 -0500, Stephen P. Becker <geoman@g.o> wrote:
13 > Andrew Finley wrote:
14 > > Thanks Papai,
15 > > If I set up the NFS server what should it's export file look like?
16 > >
17 > >
18 >
19 > The share just needs to be (rw,no_root_squash) so that the remote
20 > machine has proper access.
21 >
22 > Steve
23 >
24 >
25 >
26 >
27 > --
28 > gentoo-mips@g.o mailing list
29 >
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Re: [gentoo-mips] SGI O2 R5000 on initial boot screen freaks out "Stephen P. Becker" <spbecker@××.edu>