Package: install-doc Version: 3.0.23 Severity: normal I just installed Debian/MIPS/stable on an Indy (then upgraded to unstable, which was an adventure for another bug report).
It would be helpful if the installation manual mentioned in the 'modconf' section that 'hal2' (which uses 'soundconf') is the module providing sound support on the SGI Indy. You probably also want to add users to the 'audio' group. For X configuration, the driver to use on the Indy is 'newport'. The best information on X-on-Indy (and Indigo2) is: http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-mips/xfree86/ In the partitioning section, a sample disk partition would be extremely useful. For my system: --- indy# fdisk /dev/sdb Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb (SGI disk label): 66 heads, 62 sectors, 1008 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4092 * 512 bytes ----- partitions ----- Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System 1: /dev/sdb1 boot 5 928 3779541 83 Linux native 2: /dev/sdb2 swap 929 1007 324735 82 Linux swap 9: /dev/sdb3 0 4 20460 0 SGI volhdr 11: /dev/sdb4 0 1007 4124736 6 SGI volume ----- Bootinfo ----- Bootfile: /unix ----- Directory Entries ----- 0: linux sector 4 size 2031824 1: newlinux sector 3973 size 2627527 Command (m for help): q indy# ---- The information I needed (which the manual did not explain) were: a) partitions start at 1, despite the special 'volume header' partitions at 9 and 11, and user partitions 'overlap' with 9 and 11 in a way that's best shown by example above. b) It's not enough that the swap partition be named 'swap', it must also have type 82. [I was misled here by installing Debian/PowerPC immediately prior.] c) It doesn't matter that the 'Bootfile' parameter doesn't match the name of the boot kernel. I forget if the manual includes sufficient information on dvhtool, but a sample invocation can't hurt if it's currently missing: indy# dvhtool -d /dev/sdb --unix-to-vh /boot/vmlinux-2.4.22-r4k-ip22 linux Finally, I found the following information on the Indy's boot prom helpful: IRIX manual on the use of the PROM: http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=bks&fname=/SGI_Admin/IA_ConfigOps/ch09.html Resetting a bad ethernet address in the PROM (caused by dead batteries, etc) http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/rescue/2000-November/003661.html Proper PROM boot options for linux: http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/linux-mips/indy-boot/indy-hd-boot-micro-howto.html In particular, for my case (booting off sdb1, scsi id 4; note that partition(8) corresponds to what fdisk called partition 9): setenv OSLoader linux setenv SystemPartition scsi(0)disk(4)rdisk(0)partition(8) setenv OSLoadPartition /dev/sdb1 setenv OSLoadOptions "" where OSLoadOptions contains the linux boot arguments, if any. Hopefully this information will help future Debian/MIPS installers. --scott -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: mips Kernel: Linux indy 2.4.22-r4k-ip22 #1 Mon Dec 1 20:24:13 CET 2003 mips Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
