On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:49:37PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:15:23AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
> > Hi,
> > with the following two patches (first against dvhtool, second against
> > current cvs kernel) it's possible to boot the Indy from a local harddisk
> > without the need of IRIX to install it in the volume header. Set
> > setenv OSLoader linux
> > and
> > setenv OSLoadPartition /dev/sd(whatever)
> > in the boot-prom and do a:
> > dvhtool -d /dev/sda(whatever) --unix-to-vh (your_favorite_ecoff_kernel) linux
I just noticed that the kernel patch is slightly broken, it fails when
you specify additional boot parameters. Fixed one is at:
http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/linux-mips/indy-boot/linux-2001-01-20.diff
