[rescue] SGI Indigo2 & IRIX 6.5

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sun Nov 30 21:01:30 CST 2008


On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 06:36:13PM -0500, Greg Nesbitt wrote:
> The box will run Linux using some unofficial patches floating around for
> the kernel & gcc, but it's really meant to be an IRIX machine.  To my
> knowledge it will not boot *BSD.

This.  Linux on (non-x86) SGI hardware has always been, and IMHO always
will be, a waste-of-time doesnt-really-work-well hack.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas



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