Problems installing Gentoo on SGI Octane, MIPS R12000

[bob_35758]

Using:
Private 2 computer network
Server: Fedora Core 2 on Pentium based machine.
Target: SGI Octane with MIPS R12000
Image: ip30-r10k+-20040514.img

Neumerous problems
After bootp(): root=/dev/ram0
Boot seems to start fine.
Get a message on SGI machine
IP30 Heart Attack, caught errors 0x0040!
Interupt #57
It continues with no apparent problem.
In network activity I get the error:
From SGI mach.: Error code, Code: Disk Full or allocation exceeded.

From here it seems to start trying to do a diskless boot by NFS connecting to a directory /mipsy/octane/root/. I have attempted to set things up to allow that but everything I read indicates that it should not be happeining anyway. Any help would be appreciated.

Bob.
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[Redhatter]

I realise this is a month later -- it seems none of the SGI gurus stepped up to the plate.

Does Octane actually support initrds? IIRC this is not the case, and therefore one needs to use root-over-NFS.

Also, in this README it says:

[bob_35758]

Thanks Stuart. It is indeed a month later. We eventually read the notes on the linux version we were trying to use and discovered how unlikely it was to work. So we have currently moved away from that plan to one using IRIX.
Thanks for your reply.
Bob.
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Dancing Man