[Buildroot] Help Booting Kernel on an ml507
Michael S. Zick
minimod at morethan.org
Wed Dec 2 01:11:09 UTC 2009
On Tue December 1 2009, NEAL, RYAN wrote:
> Urk. Seriously right after I sent the email I saw the /sbin/udhcpc.
>
> Now I just have the problem of how to get it run at startup. By editing
> the inittab?
>
See: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Mike
> ::Ryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael S. Zick [mailto:minimod at morethan.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 4:37 PM
> To: buildroot at busybox.net
> Cc: NEAL, RYAN; Peter Korsgaard
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Help Booting Kernel on an ml507
>
> On Tue December 1 2009, NEAL, RYAN wrote:
> > Hey Peter! That helped a lot!
> >
> > I upgraded to the br 2009.11 release. Good work, I like it a lot --
> > much simpler :).
> >
> > I am getting two errors and I was wondering if you could help me out
> > again?
> >
> > One comes when I use the bootline : Linux/PowerPC load: console=ttyS0
> > ip=on root=/dev/ram
> >
> > The boot goes as before, but the last few lines of the boot are:
> > Sending DHCP requests ., OK
> > IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 0.0.0.0, my address is
> > 10.49.211.5
> > IP-Config: Complete:
> > device=eth0, addr=10.49.211.5, mask=255.255.240.0,
> > gw=10.49.223.254,
> > host=10.49.211.5, domain=appsig.com, nis-domain=appsig.com,
> > bootserver=0.0.0.0, rootserver=0.0.0.0, rootpath=
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 944k init
> > Initializing random number generator... done.
> > Starting network...
> > ip: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
> >
> > If I tack on a rdinit=/bin/sh I don't get that error but I get:
> > IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 0.0.0.0, my address is
> > 10.49.211.5
> > IP-Config: Complete:
> > device=eth0, addr=10.49.211.5, mask=255.255.240.0,
> > gw=10.49.223.254,
> > host=10.49.211.5, domain=appsig.com, nis-domain=appsig.com,
> > bootserver=0.0.0.0, rootserver=0.0.0.0, rootpath=
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 944k init
> > /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
> > / #
> > And I can't use the DNS names of any servers. The good thing is that
> I
> > can now poke around the filesystem(r/w)! Do you know what settings
> > would cause these errors? Is it even in the buildroot config or the
> > linux kernel?
> >
>
> If not using dhcp to set your /etc/resolv.conf file, you get to do that
> yourself:
> echo "nameserver 999.999.999.999" >/etc/resolv.conf
> Naturally, replacing the 9's with the address of your DNS server.
>
> Mike
> > Thanks a ton!
> > ::Ryan
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Korsgaard [mailto:jacmet at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Peter
> > Korsgaard
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:18 PM
> > To: NEAL, RYAN
> > Cc: Peter Korsgaard; buildroot at busybox.net
> > Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Help Booting Kernel on an ml507
> >
> > >>>>> "Ryan" == NEAL, RYAN <RYAN_NEAL at appsig.com> writes:
> >
> > Ryan> Peter,
> > Ryan> That is a good point. I was intending on using the initramfs
> > because I
> > Ryan> hadn't thought of other options. I'll look into the squashfs.
>
> >
> > Ryan> My cpio.gz image is 543K.
> > Ryan> I am building for the powerpc 440 (no FPU).
> >
> > Then this is probably wrong (unless you have FPU emulation enabled in
> > the kernel, which you shouldn't):
> >
> > Ryan> # BR2_SOFT_FLOAT is not set
> >
> > You can find it under toolchain options.
> >
> > Once you change this you need to rebuild everything (rm -rf *build_*;
> > make).
> >
>
>
>
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