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From: Brian Waite <waite@skycomputers.com>
To: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: NFS root woes: No init found
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:52:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212041752.24742.waite@skycomputers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <523cpdbds5.fsf@topspin.com>


Oh I like the thought! I too have had good luch wit the eval board, but now
our custom is biting me. Lets have a looksie at the data.
Thanks for the idea.
Brian

> This is just a wild guess, but maybe there is a data corruption
> problem somewhere.  (Maybe cache-coherency?  I know the 74xx/gt64260
> is a cache-coherent platform but maybe the snooping isn't wired up or
> set up correctly??)
>
> You could try printing out the data the kernel thinks it read for init
> and compare it with what's actually on the disk.  (It seems likely it
> will be different, since the kernel can't tell that it's an ELF file)
>
> Just as a data point, we have had good success running Linux with NFS
> root on both the Galileo Discovery eval board and our own custom board
> (both used the Galileo internal ethernet).
>
> Best,
>   Roland


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-04 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-04 21:35 NFS root woes: No init found Brian Waite
2002-12-04 21:48 ` Dan Malek
2002-12-04 22:11   ` Brian Waite
2002-12-04 22:20     ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2002-12-04 22:30       ` Brian Waite
2002-12-04 22:47         ` Jerry Van Baren
2002-12-04 23:03           ` Brian Waite
2002-12-04 22:49         ` Roland Dreier
2002-12-04 22:52           ` Brian Waite [this message]
2002-12-04 22:27 ` Roland Dreier
2002-12-04 22:36   ` Brian Waite
2002-12-05  8:50     ` Dan Vatca
2002-12-05 15:20       ` Brian Waite
2002-12-05 15:58         ` Allen Curtis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-07  1:36 Pagnotta, Chris
2002-12-07 11:02 ` Wolfgang Denk

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