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Problem Installing Hard Hat on an Indy

DISCUSSION Steven Engelhardt 1 participant 1 message Sep 26, 1999 MIPS

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When attempting to install the Hard Hat distribution made available on
http://www.linux.sgi.com, we ran into the following problem when booting the kernel:

Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed
Page fault from irq handler: 0000
$0: ....
$4: ....
$8: ....
$12: ....
$16: ....
$20: ....
$24: ....
$28: ....
epc : ...
status : ...
cause : ...
Aiee, killing interrupt handler

Kernel panic: Attempting to kill the idle task

In swapper task - not syncing

We were able to get the system to boot using other kernels from the test directory on SGI's FTP site. However, when the installation begins, we were unable to find the correct SCSI controller in the list, and thus Hard Hat was unable to find a hard drive to install to.

How can we get the original kernel to boot/how can we get newer kernels to recognize the hard drive so we can install Linux?

Thanks.

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