Hi! I really hope anyone can help me out of this. I've got a SGI Challenge S 180 MHz. First I did set up NetBsd on it and it worked fine, but because the lack of software I decided to install Linux. The installation process didn't cause any troubles, but during the first boot (and every boot afterwards) the Challenge restarts/crashes during configuring the base system. This is the output of the boot sequence: 2027520+0+95120 entry: 0x8800246c ARCH: SGI-IP22 PROMLIB: ARC firmware Version 1 Revision 10 CPU: MIPS-R5000 FPU<MIPS-R5000FPC> ICACHE DCACHE SCACHE CPU revision is: 00002310 FPU revision is: 00002310 Primary instruction cache 32kb, linesize 32 bytes. Primary data cache 32kb, linesize 32 bytes. TLB has 48 entries. Linux version 2.4.16 (root@nocontrol) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian prere lease)) #1 Sun Dec 16 16:38:44 CET 2001 MC: SGI memory controller Revision 3 R4600/R5000 SCACHE size 512K, linesize 32 bytes. Determined physical RAM map: memory: 00001000 @ 00000000 (reserved) memory: 00001000 @ 00001000 (reserved) memory: 00207000 @ 08002000 (reserved) memory: 00537000 @ 08209000 (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: root=/dev/sda1 Calibrating system timer... 900000 [180.00 MHz CPU] zs0: console input Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530), 9600 baud Calibrating delay loop... 179.81 BogoMIPS Memory: 124104k/128220k available (1732k kernel code, 4116k reserved, 157k data, 84k init) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Checking for 'wait' instruction... available. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized Journalled Block Device driver loaded initialize_kbd: Keyboard reset failed, no ACK pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed) keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4) DS1286 Real Time Clock Driver v1.0 streamable misc devices registered (keyb:150, gfx:148) block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize sgiseeq.c: David S. Miller (dm@engr.sgi.com) eth0: SGI Seeq8003 08:00:69:0a:1f:8b loop: loaded (max 8 devices) 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 Dec 16 2001 at 16:56:27 scsi0 : SGI WD93 sending SDTR 0103013f0csync_xfer=2c Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15150N Rev: 0020 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 8388315 512-byte hdwr sectors (4295 MB) Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 SGI Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.00 tty00 at 0xbfbd9830 (irq = 29) is a Zilog8530 tty01 at 0xbfbd9838 (irq = 29) is a Zilog8530 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem. EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing prom memory: 768kb freed Freeing unused kernel memory: 84k freed INIT: version 2.84 booting Activating swap. Adding Swap: 66280k swap-space (priority -1) Checking root file system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/sda1: clean, 7735/502944 files, 46723/1004970 blocks EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.15, 06 Nov 2001 on sd(8,1), internal journal System time was Fri Apr 19 17:40:52 UTC 2002. Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... System Clock set. System local time is now Fri Apr 19 17:40:55 UTC 2002. Calculating module dependencies... done. Loading modules: sg Checking all file systems... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) Setting kernel variables. Mounting local filesystems... nothing was mounted Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is ok...done. Cleaning: /etc/network/ifstate. Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. Configuring network interfaces: done. Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... System Clock set. Local time: Fri Apr 19 17:41:05 UTC 2002 Cleaning: /tmp /var/lock /var/run. Initializing random number generator... done. Recovering nvi editor sessions... done. INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 Starting system log daemon: syslogd. Starting kernel log daemon: klogd. Starting internet superserver: inetd. Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd. Starting periodic command scheduler: cron. Configuring the base system... Can you help me? What exactly is happening at this last boot point? You can hear the disk working for a few seconds after the last point appears, but then the serial console clears and a new boot sequence is started. Thank you Dani Eichhorn --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). 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