RE: [linuxdc-dev] Tried my best. Can't get anything to work

[Starman <sta...@co...>]

I built the cross-compiling tools and the kernel. I did everything the
article said to do.

I don't know what else there is to explain. I followed the steps in the
article one by one.

I can't say what the RH's responses were for each command since I don't
have it in front of me at the moment.

I do know that my kernel-boot.elf file is about 680k, which is far
smaller than the one on the web site you pointed at.

If there's anything else I might be leaving out, let me know and I'll
write something up when I get home later, but like I said, I followed
the article's steps PRECISELY. The only differences in the commands were
when I had to add /sbin/ to the names of some commands since /sbin
wasn't in my path. Also, I had to run roash.sh with a 'sh' in front of
it since running 'roast.sh' alone wouldn't work. Whatever files are in
the article are what I used. The only time I did something outside the
bounds of the article was when things weren't going well and after
reading back issues of the mailing list I found that people were using a
different .config file. I downloaded the .config file from the CVS
repository to see if that worked (it didn't). Come to think about it,
there's nothing in the article stating what I should be doing to
configure the kernel so should I assume that what's there by default is
what I should use?

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: ad...@mc... [mailto:ad...@mc...] 
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 11:17 AM
To: Starman; lin...@li...
Subject: Re: [linuxdc-dev] Tried my best. Can't get anything to work


sta...@co... wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I had stated in a previous email that I couldn't get some of the
files
> to download from the article's web site. I guess it was just that one
> time because I was finally able to get all the files, including
busybox
> 0.60.? from the site that Adrian had mentioned.
> 
>   My system is RedHat 7.3, no modifications or updates - straight from
> the CD iso images. I ran as root as the article stated and followed
> everything to the letter - many times.
> 
>   What I get is that the DC boots, I get the "Napalm" screen, and then
> the DC just sits there at that screen. I checked the .config file for
> the kernel configuration, made sure that the binary images were up to
> date, and still I can't boot Linux at all. The CD-Rs I'm using have
> worked before with other homebrew projects (except my DC can't run
Quake
> but my nephew's can).
> 
You have built the cross compiling tools and your kernel? It's not
clear.

Assuming all these are built, what commands are you issuing? And what is
the response on the RH box?

If you can boot the ip-loader, or whatever, you don't need to make more
coasters. It's just not clear what you are doing here, please explain
some more.

(NB: there is a working kernel (NFS) on my web site at
http://www.mcmen.demon.co.uk.


>   It's very frustrating. I burned about a dozen coasters already. I
> really just want to get Apache running, but the Disk Juggler image
> that's out there (20010615 I think it's called) gives me a
segementation
> fault when I try to start the Apache server using "apachecfg start".
> 
>   Anything I might be missing?
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
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