From: "Stephen P. Becker" <spbecker@vt.edu>
To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] SGI O2 R5000 on initial boot screen freaks out
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:41:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <419A8212.1070800@vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <757fbd8104111614332ebf960e@mail.gmail.com>
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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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 [this message]
2004-11-16 22:43 ` Andrew Finley
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2004-11-16 20:16 Andrew Finley
2004-11-16 20:30 ` Stephen P. Becker
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