I have downloaded the linux stuff and a kernel image(2.4.0-ip22) from the site listed below. I am getting a kernel panic. I am nolonger getting nfs errors. I added a link from /tftpboot/to the debian linux directory on the server. I guess dhcp_bootp doesn't have the right flag set or something. However, the message is: >Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream. Is there a flag that I need to set for the root? I have /etc/exports with the -root=sgilinuxIPaddress,rw for the parent directory of the linux distribution? I have tried other vmlinux kernels and gotten the same type of problem. THe one from sgi says it can't mount fs and ask for root=. I have tried to set that at the bootp():vmlinux root=/linux but that did not help either. Furthermore, I am not getting an mountd error on the SGI server. Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to install linux from an SGI Indy running IRIX over the network. thanks, john davis On Wed, 2 May 2001, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:29:18PM -0700, John D. Davis wrote: > > > > I am having a problem installing linux on a 4400 indy. I downloaded a > > "fixed" version from: honk.physik.uni-konstanz,de/linux-mips/install > > and downloaded : > > root-be-0.04.cpio > This one is *very* outdated. Don't use it. It's there for purely > "historic reasons". > See > ftp://ftp.uni-mainz.de/pub/Linux/debian-local/mips/ > for an up to date root image. > -- Guido >
