Hi, I have an IBM PPC440GP evaluation board (Ebony) which I am trying to get Linux up and running on.
I read the Cross development mini-howto and downloaded the relevant files to an X86 based machine, these were binutils-2.14.90.0.4.1, gcc-core-3.3 and linux-bk-2.4-devel-2.4.21-pre4. Following the mini-howto I successfully built the kernel. This kernel is loaded using the IBM Openbios over the ethernet from a Motorola Starmax (603e based I think) and mounts the root filesystem over nfs which resides on the Starmax. Everything looks good until Linux attempts to run /sbin/init, then the machine hangs up, no panic or anything else displayed on the console. If I remove /sbin/init then I do get the obvious panic, "No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel." I tried replacing /sbin/init with a static linked program which just does a printf of "hello world", this hangs in the same way with no message. This prog was compiled using the Starmax running Yellow Dog V3, kernel 2.4.20-8D / gcc 3.2.2. Any ideas as to what is wrong would be most appreciated. Regards, Steve Boorman ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
