Hello, Is this the correct list to be asking about kernel trouble? If not, i apologize for this lengthy piece of offtopic ranting :-) I'm trying to get a working kernel on my indy, but 2.4.16 seems to be as far as it will go. The 2.4.22 that comes with debian testing gives an error while booting so i decided to try and be adventurous and downloaded the 2.6 sources via cvs. The PROM in this beast is old i gues, it won't boot elf kernels, so i used the 'ecoff' tip on linux-mips.com. Going from elf to ecoff gives out a warning: arch/mips/boot/elf2ecoff vmlinux vmlinux.ecoff wrote 20 byte file header. wrote 56 byte a.out header. wrote 120 bytes of section headers. wrote 12 byte pad. writing 3685492 bytes... Warning: 908 byte intersegment gap. writing 499845 bytes... Is this warning about the 'intersegment gap' something I can safely ignore? After booting this kernel it panics, complaining about 'unaligned instruction access in arch/mips/kernel/unaligned.c::do_ade, line 544[#1]: cpu 0' followd by lots of yukkie numbers and a call trace: [<883e558c>] mem_init+0x6c/0x1e4 [<883ef580>] start_kernel+0x114/0x238 [<883ef588>] start_kernel+0x17c/0x238 [<883ef30c>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x130 [<883ef08c>] no_smp+0x0/0x10 Kernel Panic! Attempted to kill the idle task! Am I doing something obvious wrong? The compiler in use is gcc-2.95.4, the machine is an indy with r4000FPC. I'm doing a native compile (yes, my time is cheap :-). Thank you for your time! Joost. -- I have spent most of my money on women and beer. The rest I just wasted...
