Subject: Re: NetBSD on IP22 boxes
To: None <port-sgimips@NetBSD.org>
From: Miguel Mendez <mmendez@energyhq.be>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 02/12/2006 11:12:24
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:06:40 +0100
Frank Wille <frank@phoenix.owl.de> wrote:

Hey Frank,

> > Recently I've gotten an Indigo2 and I'd like to run NetBSD on it. The
> > question is: Is anybody running NetBSD 3.0 or current on SGI hardware
> > and what your experience is with it? Is it stable enough for daily
> > usage?
> 
> Only tried to boot the INSTALL-kernel, which seemed to work. I will do a
> full installation when I find the time to do it.

IIRC installation always went fine on the Indy, the problems appeared
later.

> AFAIR the random crashes did mainly occur on an installed NetBSD 2.x system,
> but not during installation itself.

I'll have to check the sgimips related commits and see if bugfixes for
the r4k were added.

Cheers,
-- 
Miguel Mendez	<mmendez@energyhq.be> 
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