Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Support non PAE cpu's

[Frank W. <Fra...@ct...>]

Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> Quoting Frank Weis <Fra...@ct...>:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have tested 1.4RC3-2010-01-14 and I have grown quite fond of it...
>>
>> Now that I wanted to move on and deploy it, I find out that I have 35
>> appliances with Pentium M CPUs, and that DL won't boot on them.....
>>
>> What can I do to fix this? I suppose that this isn't a boot option but
>> hardwired in the kernel at compile-time?
> 
> I think there is, but I wouldn't worry about it.
> You're compiling DL yourself, right? If yes, then use the i586 version.
> If not, I just screwed up my build machine and it may be a few days  
> before I can provide you a new compile.
> 


Thanks Heiko,

I have built my own, but:

*) choosing 586 for the kernel CPU doesn't cut it: PAE gets set in the
kernel by the bigmem (64G) option in the kernel. I needed to go in there
and chose maximum 4GB.

*) my dist still doesn't boot:

it says:

Version 1.4RC3-2010-02-24
Kernel 2.6.32.8-grsec
Mounting SHM FS on /shm
waiting until usb-storage driver has initialized all devices ...
Creating devices in /dev

Searching for configuration media
Checking for "etc-mods.tar.bz2" on "/dev/hda2" ... success!
loading configuration
/load_modules: .: line 10: can't open '/shm/etc-mods/sysconfig/config'
Searching for Devil-Linux CD-ROM
Search list: /dev/hda
checking /dev/hda mount failed
  checking /dev/hda2 ... wrong media
  checking /dev/hda1 ... media found
mount: cannot setup loop device: No such file or directory
Mounting SHM FS on /cdrom/shm
mount: mounting /shm on /cdrom/shm failed: No such file or directory
Unmounting  proc
Starting up final system...
/init: line 482: can't open /cdrom/shm/dev/console: no such file
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!


when I start with an empty config partition, DL proposes to copy a
default cfg to it and then it cannot find it....

What went wrong?

Do I need to put 'Emulate CPU' and GCC cpu to 586 also?

Thanks a lot,

Frank


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