Thomas Kunze wrote: > Quoting Alexander Voropay <a.voropay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > AFAIK, the RM300E is an ARC compatible. (?) > i don't no. i saw something like that on the net. but nothing about that in the manuals > that i have. It is, AFAIK. But the woody kernel is for a SGI Indy/Indigo2, not for RM300E. The linux-mips.org tree has only support for RM200C, adding support for RM300E is probably not that complicated if it is similiar enough. > > So, try to load "arcdiag" utility instead of kernel : > > > > ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/os/NetBSD/misc/arc/ > > > i've downloaded the arcdiag-0.2 and served it via tftp. but the RM300E don't like that > file. it only says "Bad magic number". what does this mean (little/bigendian)? Wrong endianness. Your machine apparently has big endian firmware. Thiemo