Re: maybe the clue for the memory/boot loader problem ..

["William J. Earl" <wje@fir.engr.sgi.com>]

Shrijeet Mukherjee writes:
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 > running file on vmlinux and /unix gave me this ..
 > 
 > vmlinux:  ELF 32-bit LSB
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 > /unix:  ELF N32 MSB mips-3 executable (not stripped) MIPS - version 1
 > 
 > I guess this would mean I have a compilation with the wrong byte order ..
 > :-( ... so what is the endianess of the indigo ??

      Yes, you do.  Indigo, like all SGI systems, is big-endian ("MSB").  
Among MIPS-based systems, DEC and the ARC MIPS NT systems are the primary
little-endian systems.  All the MIPS ABI-capable systems are big-endian.
(A few, notably the MIPS Magnum and Millenium systems, can be either.)