Subject: Re: ok, so now my dynamically-linked minit starts after all. argh.

From: Pantelis Antoniou <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:27:00 +0300

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>  gack.  after doing a thorough clean of my software tree, and rebuilding
>with a dynamically-linked minit, well, it works.  go figure.
>
>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.
>About to start default service.
>(hang)
>
>  in other words, i'm back where i was many days ago -- kernel booting,
>getting to minit, minit starting, then hanging.  but that's ok, given that
>i *expected* things to go south once i got to user space, based on
>previous postings here.
>
>  so, my best strategy at this point would seem to be to do the occasional
>"bk pull", and rebuild to see when i get to go further in user space.  i
>have no clue why a dynamically-linked minit suddenly started to work.
>("no, really, i didn't change anything.  honest." :-)
>
>  i'll be watching for new and exciting developments.
>
>rday
>
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If you don't happen to have the magical card that Tom seems to have
you also need to comment out the update_mmu_cache function and
replace it with at empty define.

:)

Regards

Pantelis

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