RE: Amstrad ppc640

["Riley Williams" <Riley@Williams.Name>]

Hi Joost.

 > I tried the current floppy images on my Amstrad 640ppc, but
 > after it mounted the root file system, it gives some error
 > messages. This results in a kernel panic. Has somebody succeeded
 > in running elks on an Amstrad ? Or does this sound familiar to
 > someone ?
 >
 > I tried all the images from images-0.1.0.zip which contains ELKS
 > 0.1.0 Information on the Amstrad can be found at
 > http://www.sinasohn.com/cgi-bin/clascomp/bldhtm.pl?computer=ppc640
 >
 > Error log:
 >
 > VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem).
 > Loading init
 > sys_execve("/bin/init",args,18) => 65534.
 > Unable to open /dev/tt (error 2)
 > dup failed
 > No init - running /bin/sh

According to those messages, the root image is missing both /bin/init
and /bin/sh so it would be an idea to verify whether those files are
actually present at those paths within the root image.

 > panic: No init or sh found
 > apparant call stack:
 > (0) ret addr = 164 params 0 0 0 0 0 0
 > (1) ret addr = 0 params = 23D0 AD A000 2D86 E784 98
 > (2) ret addr = 9E params = F0A0 1F0C E748 0 0 1
 > (3) ret addr = 1E params = 0 0 0 0 0 0
 > (4) ret addr = 0 params = 0 0 0 0 0 0
 > (5) ret addr = 0 params = 0 0 0 0 0 0
 > (6) ret addr = 0 params = 0 0 0 0 0 0
 > (7) ret addr = 0 params = 0 0 0 0 0 0

Best wishes from Riley.
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