Re: SGI O2 Jessie kernel issue

Mark Morgan Lloyd <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips
Organization KDG Telemetry
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Michael Dosser wrote:
> Dear list members,
> 
> I own a SGI O2 which is running as a shell-, mail- and webserver since 2006. The machine has 1 GB of RAM and two 72 GB hard disks configured as RAID-1 (md). CPU is R5000SC @ 180Mhz.
> 
> Recently I upgraded this machine from Squeeze to Wheezy and then to Jessie. I was very happy to see that arcboot now supports initrd loading (no self compiled kernels anymore).
> 
> Unfortunately the kernel from "linux-image-3.16.0-4-r5k-ip32_3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3_mips“ does not boot. So I’m forced to use the kernel from Wheezy (3.2).
> 
> This is the behaviour: the machine stops right after "Starting ELF64 kernel“ and the status light turns red. No errors or anything else I can provide.
> 
> Is there any known issue with the Jessie kernel on the SGI O2?
> 
> Thanks for any help!

Sorry not to be the bearer of glad tidings, but I didn't even know that 
any SGIs still worked. I've got an Octane and an Origin 200, so really 
must try again at some point.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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