Re: [parisc-linux] Many experience done on 720, but `init' fails !!

[Christoph Plattner <christoph.plattner@dot.at>]

Hello !

Matt Taggart wrote:
> 
> Christoph Plattner writes...
> 
> > SO I build sash, a also build a bash (shared and static !), I build
> > fileutils, text-utils, shell-utils, etc, etc.....
> > The system boots with bash and I can mount, run programs, etc....
> 
> Good.
> 
> > The I build "my own" startup stuff. A /sbin/init.d/xxx , etc/rc.d/xxx
> > and so on. I also build a sysvinit-2.78 (and 2.77 before), but the
> > `init' has it's problems. The error message is:
> 
> Make sure you don't have multiple init's. The kernel will look in several
> places and I don't remember what order it looks in. If you only have one then
> that's the only one it can find :)

I have only one init. But this is not a problem haveing more than one.
In the linux kernel it is very simply to have a "source look"
(init/main.c
bottom of the file). The kernel tries to exec /sbin/init. Only if the
exec fails
(cannot open, load, execute) then the next thing is tried. But if the
init has
a problem later on (faults, execptions, etc)the kernel does not try
other entries.

My problem is in another point. The `init' is also responsible to start
kernel
built-in processes (like kernel threads). They are AFAIK compiled in the
kernel,
the init process only starts and supervise (or only starts) them. With
the command
`ps' those processes are named with `[', `]', like the NFS daemon
`[nfsd]'.
Those procresses have very low pids (2,3,....). So I have to analyse the
code,
what pid=9 will become ? The break happens here !

> 
> Are you still having problems with the init in the base tarball? Is it
> important to you to build your own init? If it is reply privately and maybe I
> can help.

I read from this tarball in thr mailing list.
Is this a new root file system ?
How can I use it.
I have no debian experence, up to now I only had Redhat and formerly
Suse.
Do I need special knowledge ?

It is a hobby of mine, to build everything myself. I `dream' from a
source
directory, where I can say `make install' and a whole Linux is the
result,
of course for very small distribution of embeded Linux or firewall
stuff.
In my private sparetime, "small & embedded" Linux is my hobby and the HP
stuff and HP workstation is for me a perfect
cross-build-lerning-equipment.