Re: boot!

[Gabriele Brugnoni <gabriele.brugnoni@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Duffy wrote:
> 
> Gabriele Brugnoni wrote:
> >
> > Hi *,
> >
> > I started to install Linux on the Visual Work 540 using Linux 2.2.10 + 
> > RedHat 6.0.
> >
> > I have follow step by step all the points that are in
> > http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/
> >
> > Everything was fine till
> > BOOT LINUX! ( see 
> > http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/intel/visws/post.html point 11)
> >
> > The boot start with the nice blue window .. then the Kernel seems to start 
> > .. and then a
> > bunch of vertical coloured lines apperar with something in the background 
> > !!!
> >
> > Why ?
> >
> > thank you for any advices
> > Gabriele
> 
> Did you make sure to use the visual workstation patch?  I assume you did
> because
> it would not have booted anything if not.  Can you send a copy of the
> exact debug that you get in the window?
> 
> Does it boot off the floppy (into Linux) ?
>

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?


cheers
Gabriele