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nuts
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 Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:47 am Post subject: Is it possible to compile a stage for another arch? |
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Hi, I want to create a Stage1 for my mips sgi from my pc with an athlon-xp.
How to? do I have to download a stage1-x86 and emerge it with other cflags et chost for mips?
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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nuts,
You need crossdev to make you a cross compiler toolchain.
I don't know if it supports mips though.
then read its man page
Take care emerging things for another arch in case they get installed. Consider the effects of installing a mips glibc on your athlon-xp.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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dunno if it will work as aspected
personally i use native compiling (i do native compile for mips, mipsel, ppc, arm, hppa1, hppa2)
about cross compiling, i only trust the bitbake method, which is using qemu to native compile under a virtual machine
look for openembedded bitbake |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:26 am Post subject: |
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So I wanna get Stage1 sources, and make it from an Athlon-xp PC and then uses this stage on my octane.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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you'd better compile ONLY on your octane, as i do
anyway: why stage1 ? if you really want to do so, look for catalist, which is the gentoo tool for build stage: it needs just a good tool chain in order to build stage1,2,3
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which kernel are you using on your ip30 ? |
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So I have two computers: a PC with ArchLinux and my octane.
I tried to use stage1 and stage3 2008.0, but it doesn't work with my version of netboot. But after some searches, I use now a netbootable 2.6.19 kernel and 2008.0 works on it (no trouble with rm find...)
I wanted start with stage3, but I wasnot able to complie a newer kernel like 2.6.27 (the older kernel for gentoo 10.0) and some packages, So I tried to make the bootstrap from a stage1 and I have troubles with gmp which it doesnot found a c++ compiler.
Only my octane compile, not my pc with a cross-compilation. So if you can give me a recent-stage that it works to install gentoo, I want it! 
In order to I have to block an old version of udev due to the latest version of linux-headers.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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load a stage tarball (pre-made) onto the mips box. Build a cross compiler on your faster machine. Set up distcc, compile "natively" on the mips box.
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I can setup a distcc on ArchLinux but I didn't find how to set a cross-compiller
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| nuts wrote: | | give me a recent-stage |
i can provide it (cause i am used to update my stage3), but i need an ftp account or something similar where to upload ... umm 200-300Mb at least
p.s.
the kernel side of IP30 is a problem ... i am using 2.6.19 without udev: that's pretty enough for my purposes |
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I use the kernel from this topic:
| Redhatter wrote: | Okay, it'll take a little while for me to come up with newer netboot images for SGI systems. Largely because `Kumba has been away a good few days now, and I'm not quite sure where he's stashed everything.
In the meantime... I have another solution. Download this kernel image, and with your Octane, unpack it into your / partition. It'll create a kernel in /boot, and modules in /lib/modules.
Now grab the kernel file itself, and copy that over the top of the netboot image on your TFTP server. (I do hope you are netbooting ) On the Octane's PROM prompt... enter the following:
| Code: | | >> bootp(): root=/dev/sdaX init=/bin/bash |
(where sdaX is your root partition... if you're using serial console, add console=ttyS0,9600 too)
Linux will boot up, then drop to a bash prompt. The root fs will be read-only.
| Code: | (Re-mount the filesystem read-write...)
# mount /dev/sdaX / -n -o rw,remount
(You should now be able to change the password ... do that now.)
# passwd
(Remount / read-only again so it can be checked for errors)
# mount /dev/sdaX / -n -o ro,remount
(Now kick off /sbin/init so the machine boots)
# exec /sbin/init |
Gentoo should fire up on the system. From there, you'll be able to build yourself a new kernel. |
I have already untar the stage3 and updated portage to 2.1.6.
But I have to use bootp to boot my octane. I don't know if I can found an other kernel that the octane doesn't need a netboot. Portage can give me mips-sources 2.6.27 or 2.6.28 and 2.6.29 unfortunately in the menuconfig I don't see IP30 support.
I wanna install arcload but I don't understand how to setup it.
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ah, i am also developing a new bootloader which is able to boot from {scsi, usb, sata, pata, net}
it has been designed for powerpc, and arm ... but it will be ported to mips.be/sgi, too
i have already completed the interface between "sgi mon" and "linux wrapper" (which is the part needed by kernel to properly boot)
ok
tell me if you need a kernel pretty compiled and a pretty rootfs/stage4: in case you have to provide me a ftp account or a place where to upload
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| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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I need the both: kernel and stage4, I've lost a lot of hours to try installing gentoo. Maybe you can use megaupload or if you want you can go on http://dl.free.fr/ it's free but in french, you put your file in "fichier a envoyer" and choose it by the "parcourir" button and then you clic on "envoyer" button
I forget one thing, I have
/dev/sda1 /boot xfs
/dev/sda2 swap
and /dev/sda3 / xfs, will I have to change format?
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