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redfox
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Location: Vicksburg, MS
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 Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:53 am Post subject: IP32 R10K mips kernel-acutally boots |
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Alright, after discovering that I can't compile code under Irix and can't reinstall from scratch, now that i believe I have found a full set of CDs(the suckers are picky are about the month they were distributed) , I decided to look into Linux. I've learned how to netboot and more about dhcpd.  Anyway, I finally stumbled upon a kernel that will boot, the only problem is, it craps out on vfsroot. I'm not sure exactly on where I need to go from there, pretty much anything is possible. If I was successful in installing Gentoo and getting it to boot via arcboot just like Irix, I wouldn't mind testing kernels for it every now and then. My main goal is to try and make a server out of it. This is where it ends up:
| Quote: | VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
VFS: Cannot open root device "pci(0)scsi(0)disk(2)rdisk(0)partition(0)" or 02:00
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00
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Yes, I do realize it is looking to NFS for the root system, now(late night sessions make you double guess), my question is, what do I need to drop on an NFS server?, can I drop an initrd somewhere along with a possible stage3 tarball? As a last note, I will say this kernel is out-of-date and not from the Gentoo branch, but hey it boots. |
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Redhatter
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Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Yep... it boots... nope, it's not reliable.
It won't get through a full installation onto the hard disk -- if the stage tarball unpack won't kill it, `emerge --sync` will. Kumba has an experimental netboot image for these machines that boots, but you're lucky if the box stays up for more than 5 minutes under any kind of I/O load.
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