From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 09:11:33 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Still cannot get a booting system In-Reply-To: <000501cc53d3$0ae00480$20a00d80$@com> References: <000501cc53d3$0ae00480$20a00d80$@com> Message-ID: <20110806091133.645d6d95@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, Le Sat, 6 Aug 2011 01:51:57 +0100, "Sam Nazarko" a ?crit : > I don't get what is necessary to just get a basic system booting on an i386 > machine. Seems like it's not possible. It is possible. It is more likely a misconfiguration on your side. > I had success with ucLibc on 2011.02, > but can't get anything to work on 2011.05. Even when using the default > kernel in 2011.02, no dice. I've looked at everything, like building the > kernel from 2011.02 release and combining with the tarFS of a 2011.05 gcLibc > build (using same kernel headers of course) but no dice. It hangs on the > initialisation of USB: I don't think it hangs on the initialization of USB, but rather that a getty program (which displays the login prompt) is not started on the terminal your looking at. By default, Buildroot configures the inittab file to start a getty on ttyS0, but you may need to adjust this in : System configuration -> Port to run a getty (login prompt) on See also our FAQ: http://buildroot.org/downloads/buildroot.html#faq Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com