Hello, OK..this is the normal kernel straight from CVS (010117) on my I2 (not Indy as in yesturday..) It seems a lot of things are repeated for some reason ?!? Also, lolo was right...it doesn't shut down.. >> bootp():/vmlinux root=/dev/sda3 console=ttyS0 Obtaining /vmlinux from server slinky ARCH: SGI-IP22 PROMLIB: ARC firmware Version 1 Revision 10 CPU: MIPS-R4400 FPU<MIPS-R4400FPC> ICACHE DCACHE SCACHE Loading R4000 MMU routines. CPU revision is: 00000460 Primary instruction cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes. Primary data cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes. Secondary cache sized at 1024K linesize 128 bytes. Linux version 2.4.0 (ian@slinky) (gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #2 1 MC: SGI memory controller Revision 3 Determined physical RAM map: memory: 00001000 @ 00000000 (reserved) memory: 00001000 @ 00001000 (reserved) memory: 001d6000 @ 08002000 (reserved) memory: 00568000 @ 081d8000 (usable) memory: 000c0000 @ 08740000 (ROM data) memory: 05800000 @ 08800000 (usable) On node 0 totalpages: 57344 zone(0): 57344 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda3 console=ttyS0 Calibrating system timer... 1000000 [200.00 MHz CPU] zs0: console input Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530) ARCH: SGI-IP22 PROMLIB: ARC firmware Version 1 Revision 10 CPU: MIPS-R4400 FPU<MIPS-R4400FPC> ICACHE DCACHE SCACHE Loading R4000 MMU routines. CPU revision is: 00000460 Primary instruction cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes. Primary data cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes. Secondary cache sized at 1024K linesize 128 bytes. Linux version 2.4.0 (ian@slinky) (gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #2 1 MC: SGI memory controller Revision 3 Determined physical RAM map: memory: 00001000 @ 00000000 (reserved) memory: 00001000 @ 00001000 (reserved) memory: 001d6000 @ 08002000 (reserved) memory: 00568000 @ 081d8000 (usable) memory: 000c0000 @ 08740000 (ROM data) memory: 05800000 @ 08800000 (usable) On node 0 totalpages: 57344 zone(0): 57344 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda3 console=ttyS0 Calibrating system timer... 1000000 [200.00 MHz CPU] zs0: console input Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530) Calibrating delay loop... Calibrating delay loop... 99.94 BogoMIPS 99.94 BogoMIPS Memory: 91792k/95648k available (1560k kernel code, 3856k reserved, 88k data, 7) Memory: 91792k/95648k available (1560k kernel code, 3856k reserved, 88k data, 7) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Checking for 'wait' instruction... Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavaila. unavailable. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Starting kswapd v1.8 Starting kswapd v1.8 initialize_kbd: Keyboard failed self test initialize_kbd: Keyboard failed self test Keyboard timed out[1] Keyboard timed out[1] pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? DS1286 Real Time Clock Driver v1.0 DS1286 Real Time Clock Driver v1.0 streamable misc devices registered (keyb:150, gfx:148) streamable misc devices registered (keyb:150, gfx:148) sgiseeq.c: David S. Miller (dm@engr.sgi.com) sgiseeq.c: David S. Miller (dm@engr.sgi.com) eth0: SGI Seeq8003 eth0: SGI Seeq8003 08:08:00:00:69:69:08:08:9d:9d:ec ec SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 wd33c93-0: chip=WD33c93B/13 no_sync=0xff no_dma=0wd33c93-0: chip=WD33c93B/13 no0 debug_flags=0x00 setup_args= setup_args=,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Version 1.25 - 09/Jul/1997, Compiled Jan 17 2001 at 11:41:43 Version 1.25 - 09/Jul/1997, Compiled Jan 17 2001 at 11:41:43 wd33c93-1: chip=WD33c93B/13 no_sync=0xff no_dma=0wd33c93-1: chip=WD33c93B/13 no0 debug_flags=0x00 setup_args= setup_args=,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Version 1.25 - 09/Jul/1997, Compiled Jan 17 2001 at 11:41:43 Version 1.25 - 09/Jul/1997, Compiled Jan 17 2001 at 11:41:43 scsi0 : SGI WD93 scsi0 : SGI WD93 scsi1 : SGI WD93 scsi1 : SGI WD93 sending SDTR sending SDTR 0101030301013f3f0c0csync_xfer=2csync_xfer=2c VendoA Type: Direct-Access Type: Direct-Access ANSI S2 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 4226725 512-byte hdwr sectors (2164 MB) SCSI device sda: 4226725 512-byte hdwr sectors (2164 MB) Partition check: Partition check: sda: sda: sda1 sda1 sda2 sda2 sda3 sda3 sda4 sda4 sda5 sda5 sda6 sda6 SGI Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.00 SGI Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.00 tty00 at 0xbfbd9830 (irq = 21)tty00 at 0xbfbd9830 (irq = 21) is a Zilog8530 is a Zilog8530 tty01 at 0xbfbd9838 (irq = 21)tty01 at 0xbfbd9838 (irq = 21) is a Zilog8530 is a Zilog8530 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: IP Protocols: ICMP, ICMP, UDP, UDP, TCP TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) Sending BOOTP requests...Sending BOOTP requests..... OK OK IP-Config: Got BOOTP answer from 192.168.0.11, IP-Config: Got BOOTP answer from3 my address is 192.168.0.13 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing prom memory: 768kb freed Freeing prom memory: 768kb freed Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed INIT: version 2.78 booting Bringing up the loopback interface...[ OK ] Setting up hostname...[ OK ] [SNIP] root:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : MIPS cpu model : R4000SC V6.0 system type : SGI Indigo2 BogoMIPS : 0.00 byteorder : big endian unaligned accesses : 0 wait instruction : no microsecond timers : yes extra interrupt vector : no hardware watchpoint : yes VCED exceptions : not available VCEI exceptions : not available root:~# cat /proc/iomem 00000000-00000fff : reserved 00001000-00001fff : reserved 08002000-081d7fff : reserved 08002000-08188297 : Kernel code 0819c300-081b23bf : Kernel data 081d8000-0873ffff : System RAM 08740000-087fffff : System RAM 08800000-0dffffff : System RAM root:~# uname -a Linux dale 2.4.0 #2 Wed Jan 17 11:40:09 GMT 2001 mips unknown root:~# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 89 34 54 0 26 5 -/+ buffers/cache: 2 86 Swap: 0 0 0 root:~# On reboot, I get *LOTS* of rubbish coming down the serial console. About to try the DEBUG thing now... Bye for Now, Ian \|||/ (o o) /---------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo---------------------------\ | Ian Chilton (IRC Nick - GadgetMan) ICQ #: 16007717 | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | E-Mail: ian@ichilton.co.uk Web: http://www.ichilton.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | Budget: A method for going broke methodically. | \-----------------------------------------------------------------/