From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QtqE6-0001wq-QH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:12:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1241021C172; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D039321C172 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mattst88) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1E50B1B401F for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so1369061vws.40 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.71.41 with SMTP id r9mr60068vdu.289.1313626357099; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.165.101 with HTTP; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:12:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110817222856.GE4105@alumni-linux.ccs.neu.edu> References: <20110817203508.GC4105@alumni-linux.ccs.neu.edu> <20110817222856.GE4105@alumni-linux.ccs.neu.edu> From: Matt Turner Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:12:17 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] SGI O2 kernel binary that will work w/ Matt Turner's stages? To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5a52939384bd2898833c886382ec9d8b On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Jim Faulkner wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 05:15:11PM -0400, Matt Turner wrote: >> >> I've built an O2-compatible kernel (version 3.1.0-r2~) and put it >> here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~mattst88/sgi-o2/ > > Thanks a bunch Matt! =A0The vmlinux.32 kernel boots into your stage3 just > fine. =A0Apparently the storage and network drivers are built into the > kernel, so there were no problems accessing the disk or getting the > network up. > > However, it looks like PS/2 keyboard support wasn't included, so I can't > login at the console. =A0I enabled sshd and tried to login that way, but > got a "PTY allocation request failed on channel 0" error and was kicked > out after entering my password. Ah, fixed and reuploaded. > I then wrote an /etc/local.d script consisting of: > mkdir /dev/pts > mount -t devpts -o rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=3D5,mode=3D620 devpts /d= ev/pts > > and rebooted. =A0It works, I can ssh in now! > > localhost ~ # uname -a > Linux localhost 3.1.0-rc2+ #1 Wed Aug 17 17:05:33 EDT 2011 mips64 R5000 > V2.1 FPU V1.0 SGI O2 GNU/Linux > localhost ~ # Good thinking! :) > Thanks so much for your work on Gentoo/MIPS! =A0I was really surprised to > see a recent stage3 for this architecture. =A0And thanks again for the > kernel, now I'm up and running. =A0I'll be sure to post to this list > regarding any other issues I run into. Great to hear it. Thanks for using my stages :) Matt