Thomas Duffy wrote:
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> > 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.
What I get from Hw Inventory is
Firmware 1.0006
> 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?
No I cannot even ping .. so it means that it is not a graphic problem.
Unfortunately I am not able to hack ... and this is really disappointing
because we need
that machine to be used to run parallel modelling Sw under Linux!!!!
Can I check any other info, files .. oil level!??
thank you very much
Gabriele
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