Thanks Dave! That appears to be the problem. I didn't have floating
point emulation compiled into the kernel. Once I recompiled with that
and booted, I got into single user mode! Now to continue on from here.
Thanks much! This list is incredible at helping people get their
systems running, and everyone deserves a hand.
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On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Dave Gilbert wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am attempting to get Linux running on some hardware my company has
> > made resembling a ebsa-285. I am using all Elf tools and kernel 2.2.5
> >
> > IP-Config: Got RARP answer from 10.17.0.1, my address is 10.17.0.80
> > IP-Config: Guessing netmask 255.0.0.0
> > Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 10.17.0.1
> > Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 10.17.0.1
> > VFS: Mounted root (NFS filesystem) readonly.
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k init 4k netwinder
> > eth0: 21143 negotiation status 000000c6, MII.
> > eth0: MII status 780d, Link partner report 0000.
> > nfs: server 10.17.0.1 not responding, still trying
> > nfs: server 10.17.0.1 OK
> > INIT: version 2.76 booting
> > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> > eth0: 21143 negotiation status 000000c6, MII.
> > eth0: MII status 780d, Link partner report 0000.
> > eth0: 21143 negotiation status 000000c6, MII.
> > eth0: MII status 780d, Link partner report 0000.
> > eth0: 21143 negotiation status 000000c6, MII.
> > eth0: MII status 780d, Link partner report 0000.
> > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>
> Hmm - that looks ill.
>
> > I am unsure where to go at this point. This is booting from a Solaris
> > 2.6 host, and looking at the packets, it looks like init (or something
> > init spawns) is trying to look for files that do not exist, because I
> > get a lot of returned NFS LOOKUP2: No such file or directory packets
> > from the Solaris machine. I have exported the directory via NFS, and it
> > is able to mount it. I untarred the debian image there also. Does
> > anyone have any pointers? I've been looking at this for a while now,
> > and I think I may need to step back for a second! Thanks!
>
> First check that you have the floating point emulation built in - a lot
> of things won't run without it - however I don't think that's your
> problem.
>
> I'd start by peppering stuff around the init scripts to see where it
> is getting upto. If you get really desparate then you could put
> a printk in the exec and open syscalls - that way you'll see exactly
> what files its trying to get to.
>
> Dave
>
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