Has anybody got MIPS-IDT Big Endian linux port booting with a Ramdisk filesystem.. I have got linux up on this board. also NFS mounting works fine but never Ramdisk support , got working. i have done bacis checks.. 1.checksum on ramdisk ..correct 2.uncompression is o.k. 3.filesystem mounted (root=/dev/ram) o.k whenever i tried to booth with a ramdisk it goes to execing /bin/sh or so and then fails in load_elf_binary() at, /* First of all, some simple consistency checks. */ if(elf_ex.e_type != ET_EXEC && elf_ex.e_type != ET_DYN) for me e_type always reported to be 0x200..and there it fails. while if after mounting ramdisk with command #mount -o loop arch/mips/ramdisk/ramdisk /mnt , and then #file /mnt/bin/sh gives o/p as expected , /mnt/bin/sh: ELF 32-bit MSB mips-1 executable, MIPS R3000_BE, version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped MY boot messages pasted below ------------------------------ Determined physical RAM map: memory: 8000fc00 @ 80000400 (usable) memory: 00ed4210 @ 0012bdf0 (usable) Initial ramdisk at: 0x80103000 (46022 bytes) On node 0 totalpages: 4096 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram console=ttys0,115200n8 init=/bin/sh rw CPU frequency 132.00 MHz Calibrating delay loop... 131.48 BogoMIPS Memory: 14904k/15184k available (748k kernel code, 280k reserved, 107k data, 160k init) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Starting kswapd v1.8 block: queued sectors max/low 9834kB/3278kB, 64 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 2048K size 1024 blocksize RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 gunzip DEBUG:Orig CRC: 3ccbe06c, Computed CRC: 3ccbe06c gunzip DEBUG:Orig len: 147851, Computed len: 147851, RAMDISK: Un-compressed the ramdisk - result: 0 Freeing initrd memory: 44k freed loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Serial driver version 5.05 (2000-12-13) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x0000 (irq = 0) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x0000 (irq = 0) is a 16550A physmap flash device: 400000 at b4000000 Physically mapped flash: Found no CFI device at location zero VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Freeing unused kernel memory: 160k freed DEBUG: Opening the file /dev/ttyS0 DEBUG: File descriptor returned is -2 Warning: unable to open an initial console. also it is unable to open a /dev/ttyS0 but this is included in my ramdisk image. I have taken a precompiled ramdisk image (root.bin) from debian's FTP site. I don't know what to doubt for.... Best Regards, Ashish Anand __________________________________________________________ Give your Company an email address like ravi @ ravi-exports.com. Sign up for Rediffmail Pro today! Know more. http://www.rediffmailpro.com/signup/
