It took about 6 months of work, and it’s done: gentoo\/octane 1.0 has been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grab your copy here: gentoo-octane-v1.0-by-rephlex.tar.xz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s basically a complete tarball of the system. So:<\/p>\n\n\n\n What works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n What doesn’t work yet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n IF YOU HAVE THOSE PATCHES, PLEASE CONTACT ME!<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to donate money, my paypal is rephlex@rephlex.de \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It took about 6 months of work, and it’s done: gentoo\/octane 1.0 has been released. Grab your copy here: gentoo-octane-v1.0-by-rephlex.tar.xz It’s basically a complete tarball of the system. So: attach scsi disk to any machine or netboot the octane using root=\/dev\/nfs nfsroot=a.b.c.d\/path\/to\/filesystem (if you’re a tough guy) prepare the octanes local disks add tarball set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[627,626,618,622,617],"class_list":["post-4060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techtalk","tag-gentoo","tag-mips","tag-octane","tag-r10k","tag-sgi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rephlex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rephlex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rephlex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rephlex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rephlex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rephlex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4127,"href":"https:\/\/rephlex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rephlex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rephlex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rephlex.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Awesome quickstart writeup by Alex Ernst:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
root@SomeLinuxMachine:~# fdisk \/dev\/sdc
Command (m for help): p
Disk \/dev\/sdc: 136.8 GiB, 146815737856 bytes, 286749488 sectors
Disk model: BD1468A4C5
Geometry: 255 heads, 63 sectors\/track, 17849 cylinders
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical\/physical): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes
I\/O size (minimum\/optimal): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes
Disklabel type: sgi
Device \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Start \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 End \u00a0 Sectors \u00a0 Size Id Type \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Attrs
\/dev\/sdc1 \u00a0 \u00a02097153 278921217 276824065 \u00a0 132G \u00a0a SGI xfs \u00a0 \u00a0 boot
\/dev\/sdc2 \u00a0278921218 286744184 \u00a0 7822967 \u00a0 3.7G 82 Linux swap \u00a0swap
\/dev\/sdc9 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a00 \u00a0 2097152 \u00a0 2097153 \u00a0 \u00a0 1G \u00a00 SGI volhdr
\/dev\/sdc11 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 0 286744184 286744185 136.7G \u00a06 SGI volume
root@SomeLinuxMachine:~# mount \/dev\/sdc1 -t ext4 \/mnt
root@SomeLinuxMachine:~# cd \/mnt
root@SomeLinuxMachine:\/mnt# ln -s boot\/linux linux
root@SomeLinuxMachine:\/mnt# ln -s boot\/linux vmlinux
root@SomeLinuxMachine:\/mnt# cat \/mnt\/boot\/arc.cf<\/a>
linux {
\u00a0image system \/linux;
\u00a0append \"root=\/dev\/sdc1\";
\u00a0append \"rw\";
\u00a0append \"init=\/sbin\/init\";
\u00a0append \"console=\/dev\/ttyS0\";
}
root@SomeLinuxMachine:\/mnt# dvhtool -d \/dev\/sdc --unix-to-vh \/mnt\/usr\/lib\/arcload\/sash64 sash64
root@SomeLinuxMachine:\/mnt# dvhtool -d \/dev\/sdc --unix-to-vh \/mnt\/boot\/linux linux
root@SomeLinuxMachine:\/mnt# dvhtool -d \/dev\/sdc --unix-to-vh \/mnt\/boot\/arc.cf<\/a> arc.cf<\/a>
root@SomeLinuxMachine:\/mnt# dvhtool -d \/dev\/sdc --print-all
----- partitions -----
Part# \u00a00, start 2097153, blks 276824065, type XFS
Part# \u00a01, start 278921218, blks 7822967, type Linux Swap
Part# \u00a08, start 0, blks 2097153, type Volume Header
Part# 10, start 0, blks 286744185, type Volume
----- bootinfo -----
Root partition: 0
Swap partition: 1
Bootfile: \"\/unix\"
----- directory entries -----
Entry #0, name \"sash64\", start 4, bytes 141392
Entry #1, name \"linux\", start 281, bytes 11429200
Entry #2, name \"arc.cf<\/a>\", start 22604, bytes 130
root@SomeLinuxMachine:~# cd
root@SomeLinuxMachine:~# umount \/mnt
root@SomeLinuxMachine:~# sync
Command Monitor.\u00a0 Type \"exit\" to return to the menu.
>> setenv SystemPartition xio(0)pci(15)scsi(0)disk(3)rdisk(0)partition(8)
>> setenv OSLoadPartition xio(0)pci(15)scsi(0)disk(3)rdisk(0)partition(8)
>> setenv OSLoadFilename linux
>> setenv OSLoader sash64
>> boot
1216+51120+768+4256+592 entry: 0xa80000005fff0000
ARCLoad version 0.5 (c) 2004-5 Stanislaw Skowronek
Loading configuration for 'linux'...
GRUB Filesystem Error FILE_NOT_FOUND: 'ArcOpen failed'
Loading xio(0)pci(15)scsi(0)disk(3)rdisk(0)partition(8)\/linux...
Reading 9488032 bytes... OK.
Entering kernel.
login as: root
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Welcome to gentoo\/octane 1.0!<\/pre>\n\n\n\n