From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ira K Weiny Message-Id: <199908260906.CAA17265@falcon.csc.calpoly.edu> Subject: kernel entry point, where in code? To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, linuxppc-user@lists.linuxppc.org Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 02:06:22 -0700 (PDT) Cc: borja.001@berlin.snafu.de, jfuller@falcon.csc.calpoly.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: I don't quite know where to go from here... I have gotten the 2.2.10 kernel from linuxppc.org a while ago. I did not have problems compiling it at all. I did: gmake config gmake dep gmake gmake modules gmake modules_install moved the kernel and the System.map to the /boot and rebooted. I get through the quik loader. (Booting from OF) but the screen does not seem to clear like it does normaly. And then the computer hangs. So what I am left with is the boot prompt in OF something like: boot: \ device... /bandit/ device... /chaos/control What I can figure is the kernel hangs somewhere before start_kernel and up to and including the console_init function call. Because with my kernel which works I think these messages are the same and the screen blanks and then starts with the boot process. in file init/main.c: asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void) { I have been trying to figure out where this is called so that I can try and figure out what is going wrong? I have no errors from the kernel. I have searched all the arch, include/asm-ppc and other directories I can think of in the source. Along those lines... Is it printk which prints the messages on the screen at bootup. PRIOR to the init scripts. I don't even get the linux_banner before the machine locks up... ;-( Or if I am totaly off-base here... Where does the kernel code start executing? Thanks in advance Ira Weiny iweiny@acm.org [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]