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hello all, and pardon me if this is a FAQ.
Scenario:
I managed to install the rh-5.1 tarball on a Challenge S. Since I have
a single disk drive on the machine, I installed linux on a '/' filesystem that
takes up most of the disk (sda1). I no longer have IRIX on the machine, and I
would like to boot linux. I have tried the following:
boot -f vmlinux (error message: file not found... how can I tell the prom to
boot linux??)
boot bootp():/vmlinux root=/dev/sda1 init=/bin/sh .. Machine loads kernel, and
stops after the 'Warning: cannot open an initial console'. Theoretically I
_could_ fix this problem by creating the correct entry with mknod. The catch
22 is that I cannot access the hard drive because I have no console.. any
suggestions?
oh-- I almost forget. This machine is completely headless, if that makes a
diference. Also, what it the status of the sound drivers? I have not seen any
docs on this... maybe I am just looking in all the wrong places.
TIA,
-Nico.
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Nico Halpern, Your Favorite daemon.
UNIX System Administrator
Ramapo College of New Jersey
+1.201.684.6821
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On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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