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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Cort Dougan <cort@persephone.cs.nmt.edu>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: MBX860: How to boot with initrd ?
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 02:53:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199901100153.CAA18725@denx.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Jan 1999 14:40:53 MST." <Pine.LNX.3.96.990109144040.12262A-100000@persephone.cs.nmt.edu>


In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.990109144040.12262A-100000@persephone.cs.nmt.edu> you write:
> How big is your initrd? Try it with a trivial one (~2k or so) and see if
> that works.

I've been playing with a 4 MB initrd (I have 36 MB of RAM on the  MBX
board). Just tried a 2kB initrd (empty, not even a filesystem in it);
but at least the kernel should boot, right? It hangs...


Hm... No luck with the latest snapshot of egcs either; it  dies  with
"Internal compiler error in function emit_move_insn_1"

But ok, the install of linuxppc-R4 on my PowerBook  is  running  with
only minor problems so far...

Ok, now I tryed this with a set of native compilers: egcs-2.90.25  as
comes with linuxppc-R4, then egcs-1.1.1, and the latest egcs-19990103
snapshot:

egcs-19990103 both cross and native: "Internal compiler error in
        function emit_move_insn_1" when compiling init/main.c (line
        2663).

egcs-1.1.1 both cross and native: compiles fine, but the kernel hangs

egcs-2.90.25 native: compiles fine, and the kernel BOOTS!!! [*All*
        configurations I failed to get running with the other
        compiler versions run fine when I compile with egcs-2.90.25
        from linuxppc-R4!]


Either I am too dumb to build EGCS, or ... Has anybodyy else seen
strange problems with later versions of egcs?

Wolfgang

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       reply	other threads:[~1999-01-10  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.3.96.990109144040.12262A-100000@persephone.cs.nmt.edu>
1999-01-10  1:53 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
     [not found] <19990111114251.006245@smtp.calvacom.fr>
1999-01-11 21:38 ` MBX860: How to boot with initrd ? Wolfgang Denk
     [not found] <36986420.3281E1A4@wanadoo.fr>
1999-01-10 22:29 ` Wolfgang Denk
1999-01-08 23:49 Wolfgang Denk
1999-01-09 13:29 ` Wolfgang Denk
1999-01-09 19:29 ` Cort Dougan
1999-01-10  4:57 ` Dan Malek
1999-01-10 22:46   ` Troy Benjegerdes

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