In article <439126BA.9060101@dorkzilla.org>
dlg@dorkzilla.org wrote:

> > Does RC1 work or not?
> it has successfully installed.

Umm, bad news.
Could you try the RC5 GENERIC32_IP3x kernel on your working RC1 userland?

> oddity: it booted straight to singleuser mode, once i typed "exit" it

According to sgimips/machdep.c:
---
	boothowto = RB_SINGLE;

	/*
	 * Single- or multi-user ('auto' in SGI terms).
	 */
	for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
		if (strcmp(argv[i], "OSLoadOptions=auto") == 0)
			boothowto &= ~RB_SINGLE;
---

Maybe you have to set "AutoLoad=Yes" on ARCS firmware.
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Izumi Tsutsui