Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

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?

And yes, the modules in the .udeb will _NOT_ work, since they are taken
from the powerpc config build, not the powerpc-small.

But linux-kernel-di should solve that for us, i hope.

Friendly,

Sven Luther