On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:54:19PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > Hi All, > I've been trying to get Linux 2.6 going on my Indy for some time now. > However, I've had little success. The machine works just fine under > Linux 2.4.26. > > The kernel config is attached. Basically I've tried both booting a > MIPS32 kernel as well as a MIPS64 kernel. In all cases, I've used the > same kernel parameters. (root=/dev/hda3, and sometimes I put > init=/bin/sh or single there too.) > > Using a MIPS32 config, the kernel boots, mounts the / filesystem, but > then dies claiming it can't find /sbin/init. > > Using a MIPS64 config (built using gas-abi=o32 as suggested by Kumba), > it doesn't even get that far: > > - From arcboot/SGI PROM: > (Arcboot version 0.3.8.2) > - -------------------------------8<-------------------------------------- > Loading program segment 2 at 0x88002000, offset=0x0, size= 0x0 328085 > Zeroing memory at 0x0032a085, size = 0x1bba3 > > Exception: <vector=Normal> > Status register: 0x30004803<CU1,CU0,IM7,IM4,IPL=???,MODE=KERNEL,EXL,IE> > Cause register: 0x8010<CE=0,IP8,EXC=RADE> > Exception PC: 0x830f018, Exception RA: 0x88804514 > Read address error exception, bad address: 0x830f018 > Local I/O interrupt register 1: 0x80 <VR/GIO2> > Saved user regs in hex (&gpda 0xa8740e48, &_regs 0xa8741048): > arg: a8740000 88002000 88001fe0 18 > tmp: a8740000 3 8880e0b4 830f018 8880e0b0 887fe8ec 887fe5e4 4 > sve: a8740000 3 400000 800000 16 3f80 0 10000000 > t8 a8740000 t9 ffffffff at ffffffff v0 ffffffff v1 ffffffff k1 830f018 > gp a8740000 f0 ffffffff sp ffffffff ra ffffffff > > PANIC: Unexpected exception If that's more than two hours old CVS kernel then it's my fault, already fixed. [snip] > Apologies if this has been answered before... but I'm a bit of a newbie > when it comes to Linux/MIPS.[2] Is there anything I missed when setting > this all up? We have both Indy and O2 running there, but you'll have to wait a bit until patches appear in CVS. Regards, ladis
