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 IAA63451 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 08:35:19 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id IAA24465 for linux-list; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 08:34:37 -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 IAA18670 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 08:34:35 -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 IAA02467 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 08:34:34 -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; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 17:34:31 +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 m10LnWl-002OmiC; Sat, 13 Mar 99 13:28 MET Received: (from tsbogend@localhost) by alpha.franken.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id NAA00827 for linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 13:19:44 +0100 Message-ID: <19990313131944.A809@alpha.franken.de> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 13:19:44 +0100 From: Thomas Bogendoerfer To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: initrd is working and new test image Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hi, since there are still some people out there, who have problems with Linux/MIPS on their Indys, I was looking for way to rule out more setup problems. One way is to get initrd working for Linux/MIPS, so setting up the nfs root directory won't be necessary anymore. I hope Puffin will get some time to get us a more decent RedHat installer. To build a kernel with an initrd, you need configure initrd into your kernel, then make boot (right now it works only with ecoff kernels) and use arch/mips/boot/addinitrd to combine vmlinux.ecoff with your initrd. For now, I've built a new kernel with an attached initrd. This initrd contains a shell (ash) and some utilities (ls, mount, etc.) plus the needed shared libraries. When you boot this kernel, you should see the message will "Welcome to Linux/MIPS" and should be dropped into a single user shell. So people with the problem seeing only "Freeing unused kernel memory", please try it, and report your experiences. I hope to get the kernel uploaded before monday (depends how crappy the line to ftp.linux.sgi.com this time is). You can find it ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/test/vmlinux-indy-initrd-990313.gz 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]