Subject: RE: bootable install cd for indy (BIS)
To: None <port-sgimips@netbsd.org>
From: Volkmar Seifert <v.seifert@seyecon.de>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 04/27/2005 11:06:13
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> I dowloaded netbsd-sgimips.iso from
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/...
>
> I burned it on a cdrom using:
> cdrecord -v speed=16 dev=15,0,0 netbsd-sgimips.iso
>
> At the command prompt on my indy I typed
> >> boot -f scsi(0)cdrom(2)rdisk(0)partition(8)ip2xboot
> text start 0x8000000, size 0xd820 doesn't fit in a FreeMemory area
> Unable to load scsi(0)cdrom(2)rdisk(0)partition(8)ip2xboot: not enough
> space
>
> The machine is an IP22 with an R4400 processor and 128 Mbytes of
> memory.
>
> Can someone help?

Yes, I think I can. I tried the same, getting the same error - my
machine has about 384 MB of RAM, but this doesn't matter in this case.
It's no question of RAM or memory at all, it's plain and simple an old
PROM Version (my machine has PROM Monitor v. 5.3).
This means, you need the aout-version of the kernel, since the PROM
doesn't know how to handle ELF images.

Use the following line for booting:

#>> boot -f scsi(0)cdrom(2)rdisk(0)partition(8)aoutboot

That worked for my machine, and I think it will for yours.

BTW - Thanks for the image and this mailing list...now I finally get my
Indigo 2 working again ;-)

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MfG / Sincerely

Volkmar Seifert
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