Re: installing on O2

[Max Matveev <makc%gmx.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:43:20 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

 mexas> I'm still a bit confused about "osloadfilename" and
 mexas> "osloader" PROM variables. 

Loader is what prom will load to initialize the box for the kernel
loading. In Irix world it was sash. osloadfilename is the kernel name.

 >> boot
 mexas> Unable to execute bootp():/netbsd-sgimips:  invalid argument
 mexas> Unable to load bootp():/netbsd-sgimips: invalid bootfile 
bootp():/netbsd-sgimips.

You're supposed to boot ip3xboot first then it will boot the
kernel. It's been a while since I had to do it but from memory it was
how I did it.

max