Upgrading to kernel 2.4.6 with old init program

Upgrading to kernel 2.4.6 with old init program

[Cindy Peters]

I am upgrading my Linux kernel from 2.2.13 to 2.4.6 on an MPC823. When the
kernel startup process gets to running the sbin/init program I am getting a
usage error for ld.so and then a kernel panic. It looks like it is
attempting to run ld.so. I am still using an old ramdisk with old versions
of executables that ran successfully on Linux 2.2.13. Have the file formats
changed somehow? Do I need to get the source for the executables and rebuild
them with the latest libraries? If so, where can I get them?

Thanks,

Cindy Peters
Adaptive Micro-Ware, Inc.

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Re: Upgrading to kernel 2.4.6 with old init program

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <41EDEC3C1B88D51186EB00A0C9CFADF702FA81@AMWMAIL> you wrote:
>
> I am upgrading my Linux kernel from 2.2.13 to 2.4.6 on an MPC823. When the
> kernel startup process gets to running the sbin/init program I am getting a
> usage error for ld.so and then a kernel panic. It looks like it is
> attempting to run ld.so. I am still using an old ramdisk with old versions
> of executables that ran successfully on Linux 2.2.13. Have the file formats
> changed somehow? Do I need to get the source for the executables and rebuild
> them with the latest libraries? If so, where can I get them?

This souns as if you are still running code based on  libc-1.99.  You
need a modified version of /lib/ld.so.1 then. There is one on our FTP
server,  AFAIR  in  ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/ld.so* (or
maybe in the "patches" directory?).

Wolfgang Denk

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RE: Upgrading to kernel 2.4.6 with old init program

[Cindy Peters]

Thanks for your help. The new ld.so.1 fixed the problem. I am thinking that
I should rebuild the code with the latest libraries so that we don't have to
have both versions available. Is there an ftp site where I can get the
sources for all of the executables that you need in a ramdisk?

Thanks again,

Cindy Peters
Adaptive Micro-ware, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:wd@denx.de]
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 1:01 PM
To: Cindy Peters
Cc: 'linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org'
Subject: Re: Upgrading to kernel 2.4.6 with old init program


In message <41EDEC3C1B88D51186EB00A0C9CFADF702FA81@AMWMAIL> you wrote:
>
> I am upgrading my Linux kernel from 2.2.13 to 2.4.6 on an MPC823. When the
> kernel startup process gets to running the sbin/init program I am getting
a
> usage error for ld.so and then a kernel panic. It looks like it is
> attempting to run ld.so. I am still using an old ramdisk with old versions
> of executables that ran successfully on Linux 2.2.13. Have the file
formats
> changed somehow? Do I need to get the source for the executables and
rebuild
> them with the latest libraries? If so, where can I get them?

This souns as if you are still running code based on  libc-1.99.  You
need a modified version of /lib/ld.so.1 then. There is one on our FTP
server,  AFAIR  in  ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/ld.so* (or
maybe in the "patches" directory?).

Wolfgang Denk

--
Software Engineering:  Embedded and Realtime Systems,  Embedded Linux
Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87  Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88  Email: wd@denx.de
Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced.       - John Keats

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