Re: [gentoo-mips] IP30: Gentoo installation without monitor & keyboard

2008-03-02 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On 20:34 Sun 02 Mar , Karin Willers wrote: > Any comments?? > > The Gentoo documentation seems not to be in sync with the actual > fdisk command options ... > If you follow the handbook as it is, you should end to something like, Neo ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 6

Re: [gentoo-mips] IP30: Gentoo installation without monitor & keyboard

2008-03-02 Thread Karin Willers
Hello, it's me again ... things seem not to be so easy I ended up with a disk configuration as follows: / # fdisk /dev/sda Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 0 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes - partitions - Pt#Device

Re: [gentoo-mips] IP30: Gentoo installation without monitor & keyboard

2008-03-02 Thread Karin Willers
Hello All, bootp(): root=/dev/ram0 CONSOLE=/dev/ttyS0 did it - thanks for the speedy reply! Cheers, Karin - On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 18:11 +0200, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: > On 16:47 Sun 02 Mar , Karin Willers wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I'm currently trying to install Gentoo MIPS

Re: [gentoo-mips] IP30: Gentoo installation without monitor & keyboard

2008-03-02 Thread Dirk Tilger
On 02.03.2008, at 19:47, Karin Willers wrote: I'm currently trying to install Gentoo MIPS on an IP30 without monitor (and hence no keyboard connected). Connection to the Octane is made serially from a laptop running minicom. I think, the machine (R12000 @ 400 MHz, 2 GByte RAM) boots the ip30-r

Re: [gentoo-mips] IP30: Gentoo installation without monitor & keyboard

2008-03-02 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On 16:47 Sun 02 Mar , Karin Willers wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm currently trying to install Gentoo MIPS on an IP30 without > monitor (and hence no keyboard connected). Connection to the > Octane is made serially from a laptop running minicom. > > I think, the machine (R12000 @ 400 MHz, 2 GByt

[gentoo-mips] IP30: Gentoo installation without monitor & keyboard

2008-03-02 Thread Karin Willers
Hello All, I'm currently trying to install Gentoo MIPS on an IP30 without monitor (and hence no keyboard connected). Connection to the Octane is made serially from a laptop running minicom. I think, the machine (R12000 @ 400 MHz, 2 GByte RAM) boots the ip30-r10k+-20050820.img image file correctly