Heitzso wrote:
now, with framebuffer and console turned off, ...
boot went much, much further, but not to completion
2.4 for me seems to be a game of Russian Roulette. Best grab your self
a bag of chips and get used to flipping the power on the SS20.
Eventually it will boot. The question is "when". My ss20 has a dual
Ross 125MHz module (512kb cache I think), running 2.4.22-rc3. I had to
add in the asm clobber patch, and the context table alignment patch
Keith mentioned. Built with GCC-3.3.1, and most config options as
modules and such, it took about 21 reboots before I got the kernel to
load completely and boot into userland.
That was a month ago. I've refused to cut the thing off since until
2.4.23 (and that's a maybe) just to see how long it'll last. The boot
process threw Level 15 interrupts, watchdog resets, and init hangs at
me. Out of 21 reboots, 3 loaded the kernel to Init. Out of those 3,
only one (the last) booted to userland. So all in all, it is really a
guessing game.
The machine runes headless too. Serial console works flawlessly, sshd
runs fine. Aside from getting it to boot, it is rather a functional
little machine, if a tad on the slow side.
--Kumba
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"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world:
small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are
elsewhere." --Elrond
