Gentoo on SGI Octane2

[qzu]

Hello hobbists and pros!
I'm having a really hard time into installing Gentoo on Silicon Graphics hardware!

I'm the proud owner of an Octane2 ("IP30") with:

- 512 megs RAM
- R12000 single CPU
- V6 graphics (aka Odissey)

I've got no cdrom reader! I've tried really hard to adapt the 2006 SGI LiveCD from here:
http://ba.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/gentoo ... ecd/x-rc6/
to be "burnt" and booted from an hard drive with no success.

Then I built from scratch a Gentoo installation on a virtual machine on my modern pc.
From there, I'm literally STRUGGLING to compile a MODERN kernel for the Octane to boot from and to proceed with a current stage3 install.

The older - prebuilt - kernels that can be found online don't allow to use newer stage3! You can find the
kernels here:
https://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/mips/old-netboot/testing/
Did support stopped in 2006?

On the virtual machine I've managed to install the "mips64-unknown-linux-gnu-8.2.0" crosscompiler using crossdev:

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crossdev -s1 --target mips64-unknown-linux-gnu
gcc-config  mips64-unknown-linux-gnu-8.2.0

I've installed mips-sources tailored for my system with

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USE="ip30" emerge --ask sys-kernel/mips-sources

I've customized .config following various tutorials... finger crossed... but no avail:

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make vmlinux modules CROSS_COMPILE=mips64-unknown-linux-gnu-

...fails with a generic error!I can provide more details if requested!
Hope I sort out this mess!!!
Thanks to anyone willing to help!
Cheers,
qzu

[xaviermiller]

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Gentoo on Alternative Architectures.

[qzu]

Sorry Xavier for the inconvenience.
Did anyone ever used those patches?

https://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/mips/patches/

Does the mips-sources version and patch version shall be identical?
What are the steps to accomplish that?
Thank you very much!

[qzu]

As per subject...
What would be the "scientific" way to netboot via TFTP and to chroot into the LiveCD:

http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/pub/gento ... -X-RC6.img

I've managed to dump the .img with "dd" on a disk, netboot and "uncleanly" chroot... e.g. "startx" will fail!
Hints anyone?
Thanks,
qzu

[qzu]

Hello everyone!

Finally found an external scsi cdrom drive... Tested and working under IRIX: copied huge files from a cd and tested with "diff".
I'm trying to burn the LiveCD img file.

This:

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cdrecord -vv -pad dev=6,2,0 -tao livecd.img

Doesn't work! Can't even load Sash because of a "seek" unrecoverable error... I may take a screenshot tomorrow.

Anyone can help with the correct tweaks with cdrecord arguments to burn this strange, hybrid "beast" of a CD image?

Thank you very much,
Francesco

[qzu]

The screenshot of the LiveCD error on SGI Octane2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z_BtmO ... sp=sharing