Sorry for not getting a response out sooner, I'm still trying to catch up on email after taking some vacation last week and getting sick this week...
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 17:15, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > Ok, > Still trying to boot from disk to see if my custom kernel for my new > Gentoo Linux install is any good or not. > > I have tried several different versions of roms from sourceforge.net. > > Both v 2.10.1 and v 2.10.2 left me hanging at > > First stage kernel (Linux): Decompressing - done > > And the LCD said Kernel Panic > > Then after a minute the machine would restart itself. > > Now I went back to v 2.10.3 and I now get > > First stage kernel (Linux): Decompressing - done > ERROR: cannot relocate with filesize 0 > This message is indicating that the rom kernel was unable to correctly/completely load the new kernel from disk. Any number of things could be responsible for this so try enabling the CMOS debug flag and it should show more information on boot: (these steps are from memory so they may not be 100% correct) Cobalt:Main Menu> lowlevel Cobalt:Lowlevel Hardware Menu> cmos Cobalt:CMOS Menu> cmos_flags debug on Once this is enabled the ROM should now display the rom kernel boot messages to the serial port as well as pass the "debug" flag to each kernel parameter line. This should hopefully give an indication of where the load is failing. > No kernel Panic or restart. > > Now I can do a bfx r d on all the above roms. > > However I can't get the kernel rom, first stage going when booting from > disk. > > I can boot from the network just fine from all as well. > > Please help I am getting desperate!!!!!! > > This is the last thing I need to do to complete my installation of > Gentoo on my XTR. The main difference between the 2.10.1 and the other 2.10.x ROMs so far has been different kernels in each release. Since I don't have a wide variety of hardware to test on these new kernels have caused problems for some people. In particular the problem is getting a small enough universal kernel that will work for all hardware and desired filesystems and yet still fit in the flash file system. Version 2.10.3 in particular was based around a plain 2.4.24pre1 (this was the first 2.4.x kernel with XFS included by default) not the 2.4.19 series and that seems to have caused problems for people. -duncan _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
