Hi, http://www.us.debian.org/releases/etch/mips/ch05s01.html.en contains:
<quote> 5.1.2.1. SGI TFTP Booting On SGI machines you can append boot parameters to the bootp(): command in the command monitor. Following the bootp(): command you can give the path and name of the file to boot if you did not give an explicit name via your bootp/dhcp server. Example: bootp():/boot/tftpboot.img Further kernel parameters can be passed via append: bootp(): append="root=/dev/sda1" </quote> I tested an install on a SGI Octane using the kernel linux-image-2.6-r10k-ip30 (2.6.12-3) from experimental. I failed to mount the root filesystem (I tried really everything, such as an NFS root (fails probably because of kernel network settings), a copy of a boostraped system on /dev/sdb directly in my IRIX system) but noticed that bootp(): append="arg1 arg2" is interpreted as kernel command line "append=arg1 arg2" by the kernel. So it is necessary to omit "append=" and the quotes. Comments? Maybe it's only my system which doesn't support "append"? Next step I will try is to cross compile a newer kernel from http://www.linux-mips.org. My first attempt failed because linux-2.6.18.1.tar.gz seems not to support IP30 anymore. I will try different versions or directly from git ... Or is there a simple way to provide an initrd? All Mips build I checked contain only a kernel image ... PS: I'm not subscribed to debian-boot anymore. Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]