From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11395 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2004 21:30:22 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 29 Nov 2004 21:30:22 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CYt6E-0000Ox-AL for arch-gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:30:22 +0000 Received: (qmail 17025 invoked by uid 89); 29 Nov 2004 21:30:21 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-mips-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 7461 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2004 21:30:21 +0000 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: andy set sender to afinley@gis.umn.edu using -f From: Andrew Finley Reply-To: afinley@gis.umn.edu To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <41AA3D7F.1030504@gentoo.org> References: <1101332151.12250.17.camel@populus> <41A5307E.3060507@gentoo.org> <1101660743.27092.2.camel@populus> <41AA3D7F.1030504@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: umn Message-Id: <1101763820.18017.5.camel@populus> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 29 Nov 2004 15:30:20 -0600 Subject: [gentoo-mips] arcboot problem R5000 o2 X-Archives-Salt: 86a0e30b-ceba-4bbe-936d-f182f38157b4 X-Archives-Hash: c2284c8a68e45e50baf484a09215677c Ok, I tried. On the R5000 O2: 1) emerged arcboot, then following the man page, I put it in the volume header. 2) ignored the boot partition I made during the system install, and made a file called kernel in sda3 (i.e., my root partition see fstab below) 3) I put the kernel that Steve gave me into the kernel file 4) changed the arcboot.conf to reflect my changes (see below). 5) then back to prom I did "boot -f arcboot" - result was an error something like "can't find kernel looking in \unix" I tried several variation on this theme but with no luck. What am I doing wrong? Thanks again. -andy # arcboot.conf # # copyright 2002 Guido Guenther # label=linux image=/kernel/vmlinux64-2004-11-06 append="root=/dev/sda3" #fstab #/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1 /dev/sda3 / ext3 noatime 0 0 /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 15:05, Kumba wrote: > Andrew Finley wrote: > > Hi Kumba and Steve, > > I started working on your suggestions. But get a package masked error > > when trying to emerge arcboot. What do I need to do? > > -thanks andy > > > > It's advised you give the "Portage Introduction" a quick readover at this URL: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-mips.xml?part=2&chap=1 > > (The mips bits of the handbook are very outdated, so don't fully expect other > mips bits there to work, we need a docs dev that can help get things > straightened out). > > It's a little unfair to throw some users new to gentoo right into the > experimental stuff sometimes, but that's the nature of O2 units right now, as > well as some of the other mips hardware. I'll probably stable-mark arcboot in > a few days to clear up some of the confusion, and eventually put one of the > 2.6 mips-sources stable (2.6.9 is unstable now). > > > --Kumba -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list