From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <40C95EC4.8040504@intracom.gr> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:27:00 +0300 From: Pantelis Antoniou MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Embedded Linux PPC list Subject: Re: ok, so now my dynamically-linked minit starts after all. argh. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Robert P. J. Day wrote: > gack. after doing a thorough clean of my software tree, and rebuilding >with a dynamically-linked minit, well, it works. go figure. > >RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 >VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). >Mounted devfs on /dev >Freeing unused kernel memory: 52k init >Trying run_init_process with /sbin/minit >FIFOs opened successfully. >About to start default service. >(hang) > > in other words, i'm back where i was many days ago -- kernel booting, >getting to minit, minit starting, then hanging. but that's ok, given that >i *expected* things to go south once i got to user space, based on >previous postings here. > > so, my best strategy at this point would seem to be to do the occasional >"bk pull", and rebuild to see when i get to go further in user space. i >have no clue why a dynamically-linked minit suddenly started to work. >("no, really, i didn't change anything. honest." :-) > > i'll be watching for new and exciting developments. > >rday > > > > > If you don't happen to have the magical card that Tom seems to have you also need to comment out the update_mmu_cache function and replace it with at empty define. :) Regards Pantelis ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/