Gentoo on Octane (IP30), can't get it working.

Badeu · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2009 Posts: 2 Location: Paris (France)

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Hi everybody !

I'm currently trying to install Gentoo on my SGI Octane but i'm experiencing lot of problems.

I'm netbooting the whole system with ip30 image from http://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/mips/netboot/testing/, after that, following handbook, chrooting in stage3-mips4-2008, i'm facing a first issue : the system hangs when trying to execute any command (ex: env-update)

Second try with stage3-mips4-2007. With some tweaks, I achieve to boot in a minimal system. Trying to install X and everything go wrong with a lot of GCC (4.1.1) errors. After few tricks my sytem is fully broken... no problem, let's go for a third try.

This time, after chrooting and setting-up minimal settings, I'm trying to update GCC to latest version. Emerge fails on sandbox-2.0, impossible to go beyond this point. Ok i'm trying to hand emerging each dependencies of GCC except sandbox but system seems to fail after "emerge glibc" (with no surprise ?)

How can i get this workstation working with Gentoo ? Is there more precise information than gentoo mips handbook ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Morgan.

mattst88 · Developer Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 422

First, your English is excellent.

If you post exact errors, I think other people will be able to help more.

Also, in many cases you can solve your problems more quickly by asking on the #gentoo-mips or #mipslinux IRC channels on irc.freenode.net.
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ddc · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 522

hi there

yes, could you post the error log you get out ?

here i have an IP30 pretty working with gcc 4.1.2/binutils 2.18 and a home made stage4
to be honest i have to update to 2008.0 profile, i have no time at the moment, but ... i am curious about issues from the news stages

anyway this can really help about understanding what we have to fix

Badeu · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2009 Posts: 2 Location: Paris (France)

hi !

with stage3-mips4-2008 the error is quite simple : the octane hangs with no error message when entering in the chroot environment and trying to execute any command. Keyboard stops responding and when i push the power button there's a message to tell me the system is going to shutdown but nothing else happens.

with stage3-mips4-2007, when i trying to upgrade GCC to 4.1.2 and binutils to 2.18, emerge fails on sandbox 2.0 with errors about undefined references to :
unlinkat_pre_check
openat64_pre_check
mkdirat_pre_check
openat_pre_check
openat64_pre_check

if i try to hand emerging each dependencies of GCC, after emerging glibc, every python scripts fail including emerge.
Last time, i've tried with 2007.1-dev profile.

Morgan.

nuts · Veteran Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 1630

up, I'm trying to install gentoo on my octane too. I boot on the latest ip30 image and it's cool, but, when I chroot on /gentoo, I have several bugs, I can't use portage, I can't update it and I can't install the kernel. I have a trouble with rm command: for example:

gtbX · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 126

nuts · Veteran Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 1630

I found in this forum how to install stage3 with a newer kernel (2.6.19) but, the newest kernels don't support ip30 and arcload doesnot work
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