Subject: Re: Should all Indys work?
To: Travis Geiselbrecht <geist@foobox.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 06/08/2001 06:47:09
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:26:43PM -0700, Travis Geiselbrecht wrote:

 > Is this image supposed to work on all Indys? On my particular system, the
 > kernel begins to boot but all further console activity stops working by
 > displaying a bunch of essentially random green bars from the left side of
 > the screen that changes as console activity is supposed to be happening. I
 > believe it may be properly booting behind the scenes, but the console output
 > is garbage.
 > 
 > The Indy specs are:
 >     R5000 150Mhz, 256k cache
 >     96 MB ram
 >     24-bit Vino video

Hm, R5000 might need slightly different kernel options -- can you try using
a serial console and report how far it gets (post boot messages)?

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>