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From: Andrew Finley <afinley@gis.umn.edu>
To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] SGI O2 R5000 on initial boot screen freaks out
Date: 16 Nov 2004 16:43:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1100645034.14720.33.camel@populus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <419A8212.1070800@vt.edu>

Thanks Guys,
I'll try those options.

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 16:41, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> Oscar Almer wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > in my humble experience, it is possible to get an O2 to boot off a CD
> > instead of a NFS partition by setting a PROM variable (OSLoadOptions
> > or something like it) to point to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. It saves the
> > hassle of having to set up a NFS server thing if you never have done
> > so before (like me).
> > Disclaimer: I am not a developer, nor anything else. It just happened
> > that that worked for me, so i thought i'd mention it.
> > 
> 
> We actually do have a livecd now.  It should be in the experimental 
> folder on the gentoo mirrors.  Make sure to read the documentation in 
> the directory with it, as it doesn't automagically work.  You have to 
> set prom variables first.
> 
> Steve
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-16 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-16 20:32 [gentoo-mips] SGI O2 R5000 on initial boot screen freaks out Andrew Finley
2004-11-16 21:14 ` Andrew Finley
2004-11-16 21:27   ` Pápai Ádám
2004-11-16 21:52     ` Andrew Finley
2004-11-16 22:07       ` Stephen P. Becker
2004-11-16 22:33         ` Oscar Almer
2004-11-16 22:41           ` Stephen P. Becker
2004-11-16 22:43             ` Andrew Finley [this message]
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2004-11-16 20:16 Andrew Finley
2004-11-16 20:30 ` Stephen P. Becker

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