Hi, success for booting current cvs 2.4.2 on the I2 >> bootp():vmlinux-ip22 console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda1 Setting $netaddr to 195.71.99.220 (from server watchdog) Obtaining vmlinux-ip22 from server watchdog 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 2048K linesize 128 bytes. Linux version 2.4.2 (flo@paradigm) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #2 Sat Mar 10 20:37:49 CET 2001 MC: SGI memory controller Revision 3 Determined physical RAM map: memory: 00001000 @ 00000000 (reserved) memory: 00001000 @ 00001000 (reserved) memory: 0019e000 @ 08002000 (reserved) memory: 005a0000 @ 081a0000 (usable) memory: 000c0000 @ 08740000 (ROM data) memory: 07800000 @ 08800000 (usable) On node 0 totalpages: 65536 zone(0): 65536 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda1 Calibrating system timer... 1250000 [250.00 MHz CPU] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 zs0: console input Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530) Calibrating delay loop... 124.51 BogoMIPS Memory: 124232k/128640k available (1354k kernel code, 4408k reserved, 79k data, 64k init) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Starting kswapd v1.8 initialize_kbd: Keyboard failed self test pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? DS1286 Real Time Clock Driver v1.0 streamable misc devices registered (keyb:150, gfx:148) block: queued sectors max/low 82264kB/27421kB, 256 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize loop: enabling 8 loop devices sgiseeq.c: David S. Miller (dm@engr.sgi.com) eth0: SGI Seeq8003 08:00:69:0a:04:b9 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 wd33c93-0: chip=WD33c93B/13 no_sync=0xff no_dma=0 debug_flags=0x00 setup_args=,,,,,,,,, Version 1.25 - 09/Jul/1997, Compiled Mar 10 2001 at 20:35:32 wd33c93-1: chip=WD33c93B/13 no_sync=0xff no_dma=0 debug_flags=0x00 setup_args=,,,,,,,,, Version 1.25 - 09/Jul/1997, Compiled Mar 10 2001 at 20:35:32 scsi0 : SGI WD93 scsi1 : SGI WD93 sending SDTR 0103013f0csync_xfer=2c Vendor: SGI Model: QUANTUM XP32150 Rev: S89C Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 sending SDTR 0103013f0csync_xfer=2c Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15230W SUN4.2G Rev: 0738 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 sending SDTR 0103013f0csync_xfer=2c Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15230W SUN4.2G Rev: 0738 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 sending SDTR 0103013f0csync_xfer=2c Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15230W SUN4.2G Rev: 0738 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 sending SDTR 0103013f0csync_xfer=2c Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15230W SUN4.2G Rev: 0738 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 sending SDTR 0103013f0csync_xfer=2c Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15230W SUN4.2G Rev: 0738 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 sending SDTR 0103013f0csync_xfer=2c Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15230W SUN4.2G Rev: 0738 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi1, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Detected scsi disk sdd at scsi1, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Detected scsi disk sde at scsi1, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Detected scsi disk sdf at scsi1, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 Detected scsi disk sdg at scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 4404489 512-byte hdwr sectors (2255 MB) Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 SCSI device sdb: 8386733 512-byte hdwr sectors (4294 MB) sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 SCSI device sdc: 8386733 512-byte hdwr sectors (4294 MB) sdc: sdc1 sdc2 sdc3 sdc4 SCSI device sdd: 8386733 512-byte hdwr sectors (4294 MB) sdd: sdd1 sdd2 sdd3 sdd4 SCSI device sde: 8386733 512-byte hdwr sectors (4294 MB) sde: sde1 sde2 sde3 sde4 SCSI device sdf: 8386733 512-byte hdwr sectors (4294 MB) sdf: sdf1 SCSI device sdg: 8386733 512-byte hdwr sectors (4294 MB) sdg: sdg1 SGI Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.00 tty00 at 0xbfbd9830 (irq = 21) is a Zilog8530 tty01 at 0xbfbd9838 (irq = 21) is a Zilog8530 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) Sending BOOTP requests.... OK IP-Config: Got BOOTP answer from 195.71.99.222, my address is 195.71.99.220 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing prom memory: 768kb freed Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?