argh. took the time to go back to the build, increase the ramdisk size, then built minit statically (size jumped from 13K to 450K, hence the need to boost the ramdisk size.)
built my new downloadable image, booted and: ... ttyS00 at 0x0280 is a SMC RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 52k init Trying run_init_process with /sbin/minit FIFOs opened successfully. <-- ah, success, minit is starting About to start default service. (hang) so we're pretty much back to where we started -- hanging shortly after getting to user space. but i'm pretty sure that minit used to get this far when it was dynamically linked. so, in that sense, things seem to have regressed, unless there's some magic option i should be setting in this build that i never needed in the 2.4 build for dynamically-linked executables. rday ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
