From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Waite To: Roland Dreier Subject: Re: NFS root woes: No init found Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:52:24 -0500 Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org References: <200212041635.31861.waite@skycomputers.com> <200212041730.00480.waite@skycomputers.com> <523cpdbds5.fsf@topspin.com> In-Reply-To: <523cpdbds5.fsf@topspin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200212041752.24742.waite@skycomputers.com> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Oh I like the thought! I too have had good luch wit the eval board, but now our custom is biting me. Lets have a looksie at the data. Thanks for the idea. Brian > This is just a wild guess, but maybe there is a data corruption > problem somewhere. (Maybe cache-coherency? I know the 74xx/gt64260 > is a cache-coherent platform but maybe the snooping isn't wired up or > set up correctly??) > > You could try printing out the data the kernel thinks it read for init > and compare it with what's actually on the disk. (It seems likely it > will be different, since the kernel can't tell that it's an ELF file) > > Just as a data point, we have had good success running Linux with NFS > root on both the Galileo Discovery eval board and our own custom board > (both used the Galileo internal ethernet). > > Best, > Roland ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/