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On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:32:10 +0100 |
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320095285153-0001@××××××××.de (Achim Gottinger) wrote: |
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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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> > > > VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. |
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> > > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed |
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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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> > > 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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> > > K6/2 machines here. |
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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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> > 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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> I build an statically linked init with -m486 and replaced the init on my |
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> testsystem with that. |
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> Now if I boot I see the INIT headline after "Freeing unused memory" then the |
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> system freezes. |
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> I make a -m486 optimized sys.tbz2 now and will try that. |
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Thanks! I am not a C programmer (only PHP, so far) but if there is any testing I can do let me know. |
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Brian Snipes |