J. Scott Kasten wrote: > > Do you still have a bootable IRIX image for your O2? If so, kick into > swmgr and look to see if it lists the O2 prom update package as > installed. I don't think it is part of the default install, but is on > the overlays. Once you have that on the box, use swmgr to list the files > in the package and locate any docs, man pages, etc... > > RM5200 is a specific kernel target for the linux builds. > > -S- Hi, Unfortuantely, no... I did have IRIX on the HDD when I first got the box last year, that was the first thing to go when I installed Linux. I managed to download IRIX 6.5.30 off SGI's website, but I still lack the foundation CD packages. I've figured out how to netboot IRIX off a Linux server (just grab sw and miniroot/unix.IP32 off the first overlay CD and stuff them on a convenient TFTP server) and even install things. However, I get loads of conflicts in the "inst" utility, and the end result is a system lacking just about every core component of IRIX. I'd be nice if SGI just released a bare-iron IRIX install that *just* had flashinst for this purpose... but fat chance of that happening. (Heck, even releasing tarballs of the Foundation CDs would be nice... hint hint SGI?) I've looked around on NekoChan's forums (as suggested by Regan Russel privately), most of the people there installed IRIX 6.5 straight away, and thus probably never will face this issue since their PROMs will be updated automatically during this installation process. For the purpose of the archives (and anyone else who may strike this issue), the message I get is this when the RM5200 CPU is installed: > Not supported CPU type. PRid<impl>=0x28 > > PANIC: assertion failure (IMPOSSIBLE) in file cache_mi.c at line 203 Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.' I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
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