Gabriele Brugnoni wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> probably my explanation was not clear.
>
> I have follow step by step all the points that are in
> http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/
> and in this descriptin there is no patch needed.
> The only patch (visws.2210.28jul99.patch) is a code patch so it will be
> needed as soon as
> I will start to build the Visual Workstation 540 kernel.
>
> But following the istruction
> http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/flop.html
> http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/rh60.html
> http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/post.html
> in sequence I should be able to install a single CPU kernel and after that I
> should start
> to build the final VSW 540 kernel.
>
> But as soon as I reach point 11 in
> http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/post.html (that is BOOT
> Linux from HD )
> the blue box start showing following lines:
> - Loading program segment 1 at .. (etc etc)
> - EXT2FS reading 1107968 bytes at offset 4096
> - Zeroing memory ..
> - Starting Kernel; .. (etc )
>
> than the monitor is filled by unstable vertical coloured lines .. (i do not
> know how to
> explain exactly what I see ) instead of the expected login !!!
>
> On the other side, I also read all the instruction in the
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgilinux11/
> and before I start to run all the updates and the kernel patches I should be
> able to
> complete the previous single CPU kernel installation!
>
> I used Mandrake 6.0 instead of RedHat 6.0.
> Is this the problem?
I can't see why, but I have only tested it on RedHat 6.0.
I have asked some people who are 320/540 experts here at SGI and they
told me that the newer PROMs on the 320/540 may break Linux. They were
updated to support Windows 2000 and break some things in Windows 4.0.
If the PROM is version 1.0xxx, then you should be OK. If it is 1.1xxx,
they you may want to downgrade in order to user Linux. You can find the
prom images off http://support.sgi.com/nt.
Since SGI dropped Linux on VW's, the code has not been updated. Please
feel free to hack on it if you wish and send the changes to Linus.
Question: can you log in remotely (telnet in) after it boots up? Is it
just the graphics?
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