TWEDE,ROGER (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: >I would be appreciative of any advice anyone can offer in this regard. > >Were any fundamental kernel changes made in the 2.4.17 through 2.4.19 >timeframe which could explain why the spawning of init would hang? > >After mounting a root filesystem and attempting to spawn init, 3 or 4 page >faults occur. The entry point of init, its bss section and an elf loader >.text section get hit, etc. followed by an endless series of page faults to >a bad address which just faults repeatedly, never allowing init or the elf >loader to proceed. > >I've tried a RM 7000A and 20KC based boards so far with apparently identical >behavior on both. > >Thanks, > >Roger Twede >Hewlett Packard > > > > I have a very similar problem but with the 2.5 kernel. I haven't gotten any further than you in finding the cause. I don't have these problems with 2.4.19 though. /Brian
