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

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Quoting Frank Weis <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.

This is the i586 kernel config:
# CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set

So you should be fine.

> *) 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!

Do you have CONFIG_ETCFS=AUFS in your DL .config? If not, please set it.

> 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?

Yes I always set all 3 of them to i586, give that a try too.

-- 

Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
   http://www.devil-linux.org


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