hi,
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 05:25:55PM -0500, Zach Lowry wrote:
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> Hello all!
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> I've gotten my hands here recently on an R5k Indy, with IRIX 6.5 and
> a 2 gb HD. Unfortunately, the seller didn't leave me with a root
Boot IRIX into the miniroot - when booting up you will be
prompted to "Stop for maintenance" (or something along those
lines)... and from there you'll be able to get a root shell.
The root filesystem is mounted at /root when in the miniroot,
iirc, so you'll need to edit /root/etc/passwd.
You should be able to find full details on this in the IRIX
admin guides on http://techpubs.sgi.com/.
> 2. Is there any way to check what the block size of the disk is from
> Linux? If not, could I tell from the console in Irix? I ask because
> I've got some sparcs and alphas, and if there's a pretty good chance
> it might be 8k, I'll build them a new kernel.
(you have to have root access for this:)
# xfs_db -r -c sb -c "'p blocksize'" /dev/XXX
The default blocksize is 4K in IRIX.
cheers.
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Nathan
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