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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Jim Faulkner <jfaulkne@×××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 05:15:11PM -0400, Matt Turner wrote: |
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>> I've built an O2-compatible kernel (version 3.1.0-r2~) and put it |
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>> here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~mattst88/sgi-o2/ |
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> Thanks a bunch Matt! The vmlinux.32 kernel boots into your stage3 just |
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> fine. Apparently the storage and network drivers are built into the |
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> kernel, so there were no problems accessing the disk or getting the |
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> network up. |
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> However, it looks like PS/2 keyboard support wasn't included, so I can't |
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> login at the console. I enabled sshd and tried to login that way, but |
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> got a "PTY allocation request failed on channel 0" error and was kicked |
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> out after entering my password. |
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Ah, fixed and reuploaded. |
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> I then wrote an /etc/local.d script consisting of: |
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> mkdir /dev/pts |
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> mount -t devpts -o rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 devpts /dev/pts |
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> and rebooted. It works, I can ssh in now! |
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> localhost ~ # uname -a |
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> Linux localhost 3.1.0-rc2+ #1 Wed Aug 17 17:05:33 EDT 2011 mips64 R5000 |
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> V2.1 FPU V1.0 SGI O2 GNU/Linux |
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> localhost ~ # |
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Good thinking! :) |
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> Thanks so much for your work on Gentoo/MIPS! I was really surprised to |
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> see a recent stage3 for this architecture. And thanks again for the |
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> kernel, now I'm up and running. I'll be sure to post to this list |
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> regarding any other issues I run into. |
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Great to hear it. Thanks for using my stages :) |
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Matt |
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