Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:07:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Duffy <tduffy@engr.sgi.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: Moving IRIX disk to Linux
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the LBS kernel's have this turned on in their configs.  btw, we should use
these rpms for the next spin.  they are finally working...

and all the xscsi stuff that cannot be GPL'ed has been pulled out to a
separate rpm.  so, these images are clean to go out to the world.

-tduffy

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> Dave Sill wrote:
> >
> > [Please reply only to the list.]
> >
> > Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Maybe you need to add irix partition table support - I am not sure this
> > >was done in the pre-release kernels.
>
> It is in fact turned off in the kernel RPMS... we'll turn it on in the
> next spin.
>
> > OK, how would I go about doing that?
>
> Go to /usr/src/linux and run make menuconfig, or make xconfig, and
> configure your kernel with Advanced Partition Selection and SGI
> partition support turned on... then recompile your kernel & install.
> (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html)
>
> Of course you'll have to go through all the other config options as
> well... I can send you a .config to start with if you'd like.
>
> -Eric
>