From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32297 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2004 02:32:31 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 25 Nov 2004 02:32:31 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CX9Qt-00062J-I8 for arch-gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 02:32:31 +0000 Received: (qmail 17592 invoked by uid 89); 25 Nov 2004 02:32:31 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-mips-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 24122 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2004 02:32:30 +0000 Message-ID: <41A5443E.7060607@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:32:30 -0500 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041119) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org References: <200411250216.iAP2Gi7m001947@challenge.software.umn.edu> In-Reply-To: <200411250216.iAP2Gi7m001947@challenge.software.umn.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] PANIC: Unexpected exception at boot o2 R5000 X-Archives-Salt: 09ede940-43b8-4600-86a1-4f8bc869cae0 X-Archives-Hash: 1e5f4bff78e967f609dd58a63e70ee04 Andrew Finley wrote: > Thanks Steve, > Ok, should this kernel go in the volume header then use arcboot? If I > wanted to build a proper kernel, can I still use the kernel that comes from > emerge-source (if so what build options should be used)? > -andy > Arcboot loads from the volume header, but it doesn't boot kernels out of a volume header at all. Rather, it boots them from an ext2/ext3 partition. So, you would put arcboot in the volume header, and then the kernel on and ext3 or ext3 partition, set up the config file, and then just do "boot -f arcboot" from the prom to get going. If you happened to do something silly like make your entire filesystem reiserfs or xfs, then you are out of luck with respect to arcboot. As for building your own ip32 kernel, you have to use 2.6 sources, which you will have to unmask yourself. You can run "make ip32_defconfig" inside the source tree, which will give you a base config to work from. You can then enter menuconfig and tweak to your liking. Or, you could get my config from /proc/config.gz when/if you are able to boot my kernel, and then tweak that. In any case, you can't use the native system compiler, since the kernel must be 64-bit. You will either have to emerge gcc-mips64 (after making sure you are using the proper cascaded profile), or build a mips64 cross-compiler on another machine. Steve -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list