200mhz indy

i have an r4400 revision 6 200mhz indy. i tried to get linux working at about the time the 2.2.1 kernel was released, but it wouldn't go. any chance i'd have better luck now?

-E

Yes, we've fixed a bug freeing memory used by the PROMs and I'm almost certain that this bug caused your 6.0 machine to freeze.

Iff that still doesn't help, could you do some experiment for me? I want to know if the problem is really related to the CPU version 6.0 and you seem to have multiple Indys. Could just try and put the R4400 6.0 module into the Indy which seems to be fine with Linux and report your findings?

(Swapping a CPU module is easy with Indys, SGI did nice work on that.)

Ralf

ok, this morning i successfully booted my r4400 rev. 6.0 indy! thanks for the help... but now i've got a problem installing it. i'm a little low on disk space for the whole hardhat archive. i was thinking i could dump the rpms to a cd and then hook me external scsi cdrom to the indy, however the root fs for hardhat setup seems to be missing mount, plus i don't know if the redhat installer can be "tricked" like that (i have NO redhat experience).

-E

Hi Eric,

I didn't try this, but it should work. At least it works with redhat-alpha.

If you can get the kernel loaded and recognising the CD, it should be do-able. Just boot the kernel with vmlinux root=/dev/scd0

You can't just dump the RPMS to the CD. The whole install image should be on the CD, it should be mountable as a rootfs.

Beware that there are quite some absolute symlinks. They could pose problems. Make sure that mkisofs picks the right contents in this case. (e.g. sbin/init instead of /sbin/init)

BTW: I'm trying to come up with recompiled rpm for the updates relative to HardHat. Is anyone interested in these?

Greetings and good luck,

Edwin Hakkennes

The update will be huge. I've compiled about 80% of the Redhat 6.0 packages for MIPS and work on the rest. It's basically more like a Rought Cuts II than an update. So I'd appreciate if somebody could tackle the installer such that all in all we end up with a RH 6.0 based distribution.

Ralf

I'm working on the installer from 6.0 as we speak...

- A

Alex deVries, puffin on LinuxNet.
Linux on HP PA RISC. The final frontier.

I should have reached 80% of the RH 6.0 packages. The Indy is still compiling, a 180MHz R5k is annoyingly slow for building 300 packages ...

Ralf