On Saturday 03 March 2007 03:22, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> lacoste@univ-paris12.fr wrote:
> > I downloaded and burned sgimipscd-3.0.2.iso
> > but cannot boot from it.
>
> Hmm, actually sgimipscd-3.0.2.is looks plain ISO image
> and doesn't have sgivol header.
>
> I don't know how the image was created exactly, but
> src/distrib/cdrom/Makefile looks to have a problem
> on ivoking the sgivol(8) program as a host tool.
>
> How about this image?
> ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tsutsui/sgimipscd-3.0.2.iso.gz
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui
Thanks. It works.
I have two remarks.

1) I had to issue the boot command twice !?!

>> boot -f scsi(0)cdrom(4)rdisk(0)partition(8)ip2xboot

Cannot load scsi(0)cdrom(4)rdisk(0)partition(8)ip2xboot.
Illegal f_magic number 0xbe5, expected MIPSELMAGIC or MIPSEBMAGIC.
Unable to load scsi(0)cdrom(4)rdisk(0)partition(8)ip2xboot: execute format 
error
>> boot -f scsi(0)cdrom(4)rdisk(0)partition(8)ip2xboot

NetBSD/sgimips 3.0.2 Bootstrap, Revision 1.2
(builds@b0.netbsd.org, Wed Nov  1 05:28:20 UTC 2006)

2) The instalation fails when mounting the cd to install sets.
Is this expected?

     Status: Command failed
    Command: /sbin/mount -rt cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt2
     Hit enter to continue
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a on /mnt2: Invalid argument

I found a workaround by swaping CDs (putting the non-bootable iso
to avoid installing by ftp).

Also I found the following image which appears to give the same results:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sgimips/snapshot/bootable-cd-3/netbsd-sgimips.iso

Regards,
Thierry.