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Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> > Brian Snipes wrote: |
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> > > OK. I followed the installation instructions from gentoo.org and my |
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> > > booting of the bzImage kernel stops at: |
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> > > |
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> > > VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. |
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> > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed |
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> > > |
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> > > And then it pauses forever. Does the kernel support K6 processors or is |
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> > > it PII+ only or does anyone else have any ideas what might be the problem? |
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> > |
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> > Hi Brian, |
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> > I tested to install on a K6 yesterday too. The bootcd freezes after linuxrc |
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> > is finished |
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> > So init gets not started. |
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> > I compiled everything here with -mpentium not -mpentiumpro, so the |
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> > optimization can not be the cause |
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> > for that. The tarnge thing is that older versions of gentoo worked fine on |
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^ strange |
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> > K6/2 machines here. |
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> > |
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> > If you have found the bug, please tell me, meanwhile I will try get things |
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> > working here. |
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> > |
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> I was unable to fix this bug till now. :-/ |
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> But I found out at which place the system hangs. |
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> It is definately /sbin/init that does not work. |
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> I modified /usr/src/linux/init/main.c a bit to output more info what is going |
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> on at the moment. |
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> And I found out that the last call in mail.c that succeeds is |
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^ main.c |
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> |
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> execve(/sbin/init....). |
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> This function does not return on sucess, so I think /sbin/init can be executed |
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> but hangs then. |
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> So I will focus on init now. |
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> > |
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> > Bye Achim |
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> > |
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> > > |
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> > > Brian Snipes |
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> > > _______________________________________________ |
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