Re: Install problems on custom 68k linux kernel

[Tommy Kjellqvist <e98_tkj@e.kth.se>]

> > I have an unusal 68030 hardware and I have ported a 2.3 linux kernel to it. I 
> > have got the kernel running and mounted a NFS root filesystem on it. I have 
> > compiled a static linked bash shell which is running perfectly.
> 
> Please describe what's funny about your hardware in a bit more detail.
> Also, try to use a different kernel version (I'd recommend 2.0.36 but
> porting the FPU emulator might be a bit painful). I've seen mysterious
> bugs booting 2.2 and 2.3 kernels, usually init unable to fork.
> init=/bin/sh gave a working shell though nothing ever worked except for 
> builtins.
> 
> 2.2.10 works nicely on a 030 for me

Thanks. I have now changed into a 2.2 kernel and init starts nicely. The system hovever locks after starting portmapper and inetd. It just loads a lot of data over the network and doesn't seam to get anywhere. Can this be because of lack om free memory. Is 4 Mb of memory enough or do I have to enable network swaping. Which is fastest/most stable: swapping over nfs or network block device?

/Tommy