From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2646 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2004 14:32:31 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 1 Dec 2004 14:32:31 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CZVWx-0007UD-H7 for arch-gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2004 14:32:31 +0000 Received: (qmail 21577 invoked by uid 89); 1 Dec 2004 14:32:31 +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 23658 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2004 14:32:30 +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: <41ABB203.6080305@gentoo.org> References: <1101332151.12250.17.camel@populus> <41A5307E.3060507@gentoo.org> <1101660743.27092.2.camel@populus> <41AA3D7F.1030504@gentoo.org> <1101763820.18017.5.camel@populus> <41AB98BD.6030203@vt.edu> <1101767520.18017.63.camel@populus> <41ABA500.3010506@gentoo.org> <1101769623.18017.104.camel@populus> <41ABB203.6080305@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: umn Message-Id: <1101911550.18404.10.camel@populus> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 01 Dec 2004 08:32:30 -0600 Subject: [gentoo-mips] R5000 o2 X11 and kde? X-Archives-Salt: 4bd78b3a-bf8f-4320-8a9f-0af1640efabf X-Archives-Hash: 76901bc67e246b3eaab23c2e7c4feaa4 Hi Steve, I went back through and double checked everything, rebooted, and resetenv, and presto, arcboot booted properly. Now we're cooking! Then tried to emerge X-org, which compiled fine but could not build a config file. I looked for some documentation on the gentoo mips site but didn't see much (and elsewhere). Is it possible to get X and eventually kde running? Thanks again for your help. On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 17:34, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Andrew Finley wrote: > > Your Good Steve, > > I did forget to mount boot the last time. And got it to boot, part > > way. I got a "kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing > > init= option to the kernel" > > > > Sorry to keep bugging you, but I'm not sure where to find help (google > > only works so far) :-) > > > > andy > > Well, that's interesting. It seems that both the kernel looks at > OSLoadPartition from the prom when being loaded via arcboot. Arcboot > uses OSLoadPartition to determine where the kernel and arcboot.conf are > stored, and it uses the SGI naming scheme to do so (eg the > pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(X) bit). The kernel uses > OSLoadPartition to determine the root device, and apparently the > append="root=/dev/sda3" from arcboot.conf isn't getting passed, or is > being overridden. Try changing OSLoadPartition to /dev/sda3 from the > prom. Arcboot will spit an error that you should change it to something > else, but then will scan the other partitions for /etc/arcboot.conf and > should auto-detect what partition it really needs and then boot normally. > > Steve > > > > -- > gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list