Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:01:25PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:14:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > "Chris Tillman" <toff1@cox.net> writes:
> >
> > > However, it didn't get much farther when I tried a kernel that did
> > > have drivers ... it read the partitions OK, but failed soon after
> >
> > You are trying to read the ramdisk of /dev/ram which can't work.
> > "root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1" would load from floppy respectively.
>
> Ah. I tried using a floppy ramdisk with the regular image, and it did
> load it up. But Sven's image still didn't work. It prompts for the
> floppy disk, but doesn't continue after I press Enter. I seem to
> remember a similar problem cropping up with 2.2.17, when powerpc was a
> young'n. Maybe something to do with the adb keyboard?
Well, another problem could be that the initrd is broken, like seems to
be the case with the initrd i built the other day from Gowsin's tree.
And i guess you need to build the initrd with the right modules or
something. Gaudenz can you comment on this ?
Anyway, i don't have the hardware and cannot try this, so it is somewhat
upto you (and other oldworld users) to give me a working kernel config,
and give Goswin a working build process.
I will try a new build today, including the ROOT_NFS thing in the
powerpc and powerpc-smp configs, but not into powerpc-small, unless i
get asked for them.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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