(argh -- i managed to delete the response i got to my earlier posting about the kernel failing to start any init-like program on my 8xx board. sorry.)
regarding the response, from memory, the poster suggested that, if i'm using minit, i recompile busybox to be statically linked. first, i'm not using busybox's minit feature; that's been recently dropped from BB, so i'm using the actual downloaded and cross-compiled (ELDK 3.0) source from www.fefe.de/minit/. the *other* possibilities for initial program at boot time -- sh, init -- are part of BB, however. but it's minit i'm using as my first choice, so it's not exclusively a BB issue. i can recompile minit to be statically linked if that might be the problem, but i'm still reminded that, not that long ago, i could at least *start* minit before it hung. now, as i mentioned, the calls to run_init_process() in init/main.c all fail. the obvious question would be, is there any recent change to the BK tree that would have introduced this problem that wasn't there before? rday p.s. if someone has a mostly-working .config file for 8xx for that linuxppc-2.5 tree, i'd certainly like to see it and test it. along with how they built their ramdisk image. p.p.s. i feel fairly helpless since i'm still new at this game. i guess the next obvious step would be to figure out how to step-by-step debug the kernel as it boots. time to figure out how this BDI2000 works, i guess. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
