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 Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 3:59 am Post subject: SGI-O2 LED blinking red |
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Hi there,
I just completed a Gentoo install on an O2 R5000 machine, pretty much following the handbook, since this is my first SGI box and I don't have a lot of experience with them. Right now, I'm having problems with arcboot (I think), where after reading the kernel the machine halts with the front LED flashing red. Here's the transcript:
arcsboot: ARCS Linux ext2fs loader 0.3.8.4
Loading linux from scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)
Header says 32-bit
Allocated 0x80 bytes for segments
Loading 32-bit executable
Loading program segment 1 at 0x80004000, offset 0x800, size = 0x2899e8
0x288800
Loading program segment 2 at 0x80290000, offset 0x28c000, size = 0x6a086
0x69000
Zeroing memory at 0x802fa086, size = 0x2
Loading program segment 3 at 0x802fc000, offset=0x2f6000, size = 0x0
Zeroing memory at 0x802fc000, size = 0x2b020
Starting 32-bit kernel
-->> [Freeze and LED blink] <<--
Does anyone have any ideas? |
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johnathonschade
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:10 am Post subject: SGI-O2 LED blinking red |
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well, without more info I don't know for sure what the cause is...
but I had a similar problem (and a similar error) on my first O2 install.. my problem was on a 2.6 kernel I typed the standard:
| Code: | | make && make modules_install |
only to find out I should have used
| Code: | | make vmlinux.32 && make modules_install |
due to the use of a 64 bit kernel...
my thanks go to geoman for pointing that out to me
I hope this helps you in some small way...
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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| It's certainly worth a try. Thanks! |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 7:00 am Post subject: |
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Doh... Swapped the existing vmlinux out for the newly built vmlinux.32, and no luck... same thing  |
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Redhatter
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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Where did you get your .config from? By the sounds of things, it's a duff kernel that's making the machine b0rk.
I'd recommend using the /proc/config.gz from the netboot image -- just remember to disable initramfs/embedded ramdisks before you make vmlinux.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:32 am Post subject: |
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| Success! Thanks |
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