From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id PAA16548 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:37:46 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id PAA92606 for linux-list; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:37:04 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id PAA91325 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:37:03 -0800 (PST) mail_from (sgi.com!rachael.franken.de!hub-fue!alpha.franken.de!tsbogend) Received: from rachael.franken.de (rachael.franken.de [193.175.24.38]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id PAA03499 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:37:00 -0800 (PST) mail_from (rachael.franken.de!hub-fue!alpha.franken.de!tsbogend) Received: from hub-fue by rachael.franken.de via rmail with uucp id for cthulhu.engr.sgi.com!linux; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 00:36:58 +0100 (MET) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #4 built DST-Sep-8) Received: by hub-fue.franken.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #35) id m10B5f7-002PAmC; Fri, 12 Feb 99 00:36 MET Received: (from tsbogend@localhost) by alpha.franken.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id AAA04565; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 00:29:15 +0100 Message-ID: <19990212002915.A4561@alpha.franken.de> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 00:29:15 +0100 From: Thomas Bogendoerfer To: Chris Chiapusio Cc: Alex deVries , linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Challange S question.. References: <19990211002534.A3363@alpha.franken.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 In-Reply-To: ; from Chris Chiapusio on Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 11:05:23AM -0500 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 11:05:23AM -0500, Chris Chiapusio wrote: > where can i find info on what the kernel is doing at each stage of the > boot process for a 'install' kernel like this so i can try to debug this > without buggin you guys for each problem? the kernel has already booted. The HardHat kernel isn't able to work with a serial console, and in mine is /dev/ram missing. > mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > /dev/ram: Operation not supported by device while setting up superblock > creating 100k of ramdisk space... done > mounting /tmp from ramdisk... failed. ok, I didn't include the ramdisk driver in the kernel. Please try: ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/test/vmlinux-indy-990212.gz This kernel boots with the Rough Cut CD I have here. Thomas. -- This device has completely bogus header. Compaq scores again :-| It's a host bridge, but it should be called ghost bridge instead ;^) [Martin `MJ' Mares on linux-kernel]