Subject: Re: Shark kernels no-longer boot
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@wasabisystems.com>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
List: port-arm
Date: 02/01/2002 16:18:40
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:02:52AM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > Ok, so it's been a while since I tried to build a new kernel for my shark,
> > so I'm not entirely sure when this problem might have started to happen.
>
> I built one a while back, but I chose to get sys/arch/dnard working since
> that seemed to be vaguely where things were going. I managed, with not
> too much work, to get a kernel that would boot from there with the a.out
> toolchain, and which would at least compile with the new ELF toolchain
> (but which can't be tested until we can boot ELF kernels on the shark).
>
> I'll see if this still works later today, or if it fails in the same way
> as sys/arch/arm32/conf/SHARK...
I tried a dnard/GENERIC kernel as well. That didn't even get as far as
initializing the console (ie the screen stayed at the OFW booting
message... ;-(