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From: Andrew Finley <afinley@×××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-mips@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] SGI O2 R5000 on initial boot screen freaks out
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:40:45
Message-Id: 200411162032.iAGKW64w023667@qix.software.umn.edu
1 Thanks Steve,
2 Should this kernel you provided load on the R5000, if it does can I
3 continue with the gentoo install documentation provided on gentoo.org.
4 Sorry for the dumb questions, but I'm new at this stuff.
5 -andy
6
7
8 On 16 Nov 2004, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
9 > Andrew Finley wrote:
10 > > Hi all,
11 > > I got my little R5000 O2 to netboot the ip32-r5k-20040806.img kernel,
12 > > then get the message 7774342+160714 entry:oxfffffffff-a0711020, then
13 > > after a moment my screen completely freaks out, and I have to laterally
14 > > put the power cord. Any ideals what I'm doing wrong?
15 > >
16 > > Thanks for your help I can't wait until my O2 is Otoo.
17 > >
18 > > -Andy
19 > >
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21 > > gentoo-mips@g.o mailing list
22 > >
23 > >
24 >
25 > I think that might be one of Kumba's old netboots that didn't quite work
26 > right. If I'm not mistaken, he has come up with a new way of making
27 > them with an embedded initrd that ActuallyWorks(tm). You might ask him
28 > on our irc channel when he rises from the dead (usually later PM Eastern
29 > time).
30 >
31 > If you just want a kernel only, you can try
32 > http://dev.gentoo.org/~geoman/vmlinux64-2004-11-06.bz2 for now. It
33 > should work, with the exception of rtc failing.
34 >
35 > Steve
36 >
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