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* Re: [gentoo-mips] SGI O2 R5000 on initial boot screen freaks out
  @ 2004-11-16 21:14 99% ` Andrew Finley
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From: Andrew Finley @ 2004-11-16 21:14 UTC (permalink / raw
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Hi Again,
Steve I tried your kernel, and it boots fine, but I get a kernel panic
when it tries looking for an NFS server.  Do I need an NFS set up? The
online install docs suggest I should be dropped into the ash shell. 
Thanks again for any help.
-Andy

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 14:32, Andrew Finley wrote:
> Thanks Steve,
> Should this kernel you provided load on the R5000, if it does can I
> continue with the gentoo install documentation provided on gentoo.org. 
> Sorry for the dumb questions, but I'm new at this stuff.
> -andy
> 
>  
> On 16 Nov 2004, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> > Andrew Finley wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I got my little R5000 O2 to netboot the ip32-r5k-20040806.img kernel,
> > > then get the message 7774342+160714 entry:oxfffffffff-a0711020, then
> > > after a moment my screen completely freaks out, and I have to laterally
> > > put the power cord.  Any ideals what I'm doing wrong?
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your help I can't wait until my O2 is Otoo.
> > > 
> > > -Andy
> > > 
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> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > I think that might be one of Kumba's old netboots that didn't quite work 
> > right.  If I'm not mistaken, he has come up with a new way of making 
> > them with an embedded initrd that ActuallyWorks(tm).  You might ask him 
> > on our irc channel when he rises from the dead (usually later PM Eastern 
> > time).
> > 
> > If you just want a kernel only, you can try 
> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~geoman/vmlinux64-2004-11-06.bz2 for now.  It 
> > should work, with the exception of rtc failing.
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> 
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