> You simply need to recreate a sgi partition table which is no problem > with a current fdisk. That's all you need to make linux bootable from > harddisk. Right. But how to I get to that point? There is NO bootloader? I have no Irix 6.x media available to restore those partitions. > This is kind of off-topic but I'd recommend switching to s.th. more > recent than hardhat like debian or the rpms by H.J Lu on oss. Hardhat is > way out of date. I was planning to use HardHat as a basis to build a custom LFS (http://www.linuxfromscrtach.org) system from. It would be sufficient. -- Ian Cooper ian@wpi.edu