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

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

Hi,

and thanks.

Yes, I already had CONFIG_ETCFS=AUFS.

I restarted a fresh build just now with everything on '586'.

We'll see tomorrow if it works out.

Regards,

Frank



Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> 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.
> 


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