From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael S. Zick Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 19:11:09 -0600 Subject: [Buildroot] Help Booting Kernel on an ml507 In-Reply-To: <4B2CB099CF3D4F40B1B1442281CA94FFC4C902@EXCHANGEVS01.appsig.com> References: <4B2CB099CF3D4F40B1B1442281CA94FFC4C8E2@EXCHANGEVS01.appsig.com> <200912011837.12322.minimod@morethan.org> <4B2CB099CF3D4F40B1B1442281CA94FFC4C902@EXCHANGEVS01.appsig.com> Message-ID: <200912011911.11557.minimod@morethan.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Tue December 1 2009, NEAL, RYAN wrote: > Urk. Seriously right after I sent the email I saw the /sbin/udhcpc. > > Now I just have the problem of how to get it run at startup. By editing > the inittab? > See: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Mike > ::Ryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael S. Zick [mailto:minimod at morethan.org] > Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 4:37 PM > To: buildroot at busybox.net > Cc: NEAL, RYAN; Peter Korsgaard > Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Help Booting Kernel on an ml507 > > On Tue December 1 2009, NEAL, RYAN wrote: > > Hey Peter! That helped a lot! > > > > I upgraded to the br 2009.11 release. Good work, I like it a lot -- > > much simpler :). > > > > I am getting two errors and I was wondering if you could help me out > > again? > > > > One comes when I use the bootline : Linux/PowerPC load: console=ttyS0 > > ip=on root=/dev/ram > > > > The boot goes as before, but the last few lines of the boot are: > > Sending DHCP requests ., OK > > IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 0.0.0.0, my address is > > 10.49.211.5 > > IP-Config: Complete: > > device=eth0, addr=10.49.211.5, mask=255.255.240.0, > > gw=10.49.223.254, > > host=10.49.211.5, domain=appsig.com, nis-domain=appsig.com, > > bootserver=0.0.0.0, rootserver=0.0.0.0, rootpath= > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 944k init > > Initializing random number generator... done. > > Starting network... > > ip: RTNETLINK answers: File exists > > > > If I tack on a rdinit=/bin/sh I don't get that error but I get: > > IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 0.0.0.0, my address is > > 10.49.211.5 > > IP-Config: Complete: > > device=eth0, addr=10.49.211.5, mask=255.255.240.0, > > gw=10.49.223.254, > > host=10.49.211.5, domain=appsig.com, nis-domain=appsig.com, > > bootserver=0.0.0.0, rootserver=0.0.0.0, rootpath= > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 944k init > > /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off > > / # > > And I can't use the DNS names of any servers. The good thing is that > I > > can now poke around the filesystem(r/w)! Do you know what settings > > would cause these errors? Is it even in the buildroot config or the > > linux kernel? > > > > If not using dhcp to set your /etc/resolv.conf file, you get to do that > yourself: > echo "nameserver 999.999.999.999" >/etc/resolv.conf > Naturally, replacing the 9's with the address of your DNS server. > > Mike > > Thanks a ton! > > ::Ryan > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter Korsgaard [mailto:jacmet at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Peter > > Korsgaard > > Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:18 PM > > To: NEAL, RYAN > > Cc: Peter Korsgaard; buildroot at busybox.net > > Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Help Booting Kernel on an ml507 > > > > >>>>> "Ryan" == NEAL, RYAN writes: > > > > Ryan> Peter, > > Ryan> That is a good point. I was intending on using the initramfs > > because I > > Ryan> hadn't thought of other options. I'll look into the squashfs. > > > > > Ryan> My cpio.gz image is 543K. > > Ryan> I am building for the powerpc 440 (no FPU). > > > > Then this is probably wrong (unless you have FPU emulation enabled in > > the kernel, which you shouldn't): > > > > Ryan> # BR2_SOFT_FLOAT is not set > > > > You can find it under toolchain options. > > > > Once you change this you need to rebuild everything (rm -rf *build_*; > > make). > > > > > >