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PostPosted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:10 pm    Post subject: SGI Indy and kernel 2.6.x -- Any luck? Reply with quote

Hi All...

I recently did a checkout of linux-mips CVS which at the time was up to kernel 2.6.8.1 in preparation for loading it on my Qube. However whilst I wait for the patches to become available, I figured I'd give it a whirl on the Indy.

The kernel was cross compilled on my main machine (2x PIII 1GHz, 1GB RAM) and copied over using tar & ssh. Both the current working kernel (2.4.26) and the checkout were compiled the same way using the same toolchain.

However, when I boot linux 2.6.8.1, it gets to the point where it mounts / (EXT3 format), mounts it, but then inexplicably fails to execute /sbin/init. I've tried passing init=... to no avail (both /sbin/init & /bin/bash).

Anyone else struck this?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope. I never even thought of attempting 2.6 on my Indy :-P Wish I could help ;-) At least you know someone's reading your post, heh.
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