Re: Martin's O2 d-i image not booting on ip32
Only 64M.
Does this mean I can't use Debian at all on this system? I have just
successfully booted the Gentoo image so I might go with that instead,
although I'd much prefer Debian.
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 11:50 +0200, Michael Dosser wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * On 2006-05-04 11:08 <e.chakravarty@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to boot my SGI O2 (R5K, ip32) with the o2-boot.img
> > debian-installer image provided on www.cyrius.com.
> >
> > I have set up the dhcp3 server on my laptop to provide the O2 with an IP
> > address and the file - I have proved this system working by successfully
> > netbooting a MIPS kernel image (although the kernel panics on looking
> > for an NFS root filesystem).
> >
> > However, whenever I try to load Martin's image over the network, I get
> > the "Cannot load bootp():", "range check failure", "not enough space"
> > error as if I was trying to load an ip22 image. Martin's website clearly
> > states that he has compiled this for an ip32 O2 and that it should work
> > smoothly.
> >
> > Can anyone point me towards a working d-i image or suggest any problems
> > with my setup?
>
> How much RAM do you have in your system? I had only 64MB and it refused
> to boot. Now I have 1GB and the installation went fine.
>
> Mic
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