Mark Daniel wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed debian on my StrongARM RISC PC and I'm trying to > compile a new 2.2.16 kernel. It compiles okay but when I boot it it hangs, > after 'enrtering run level 1' saying 'no more processes' Can anyone > tell me what might be wrong and how I mught be able to get it to work?
Sure. Stock kernels just won't work, especially 2.2. Debian-arm has patches, I think most recently for 2.2.13, and there are other places to get patches- I'd start at http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ Note however, stock 2.4.0-test5 (with a dummy makefile and empty special.a in arch/arm/special) *almost* builds- it fails only on redundant symbols in kernel/kernel.o and arch/arm/kernel/kernel.o. When I tried a lightly-patched stock -test3, it couldn't mount root, so there are some potentially large issues remaining, but we're getting there... Perhaps when released, stock 2.4.x will build and run at last, and ARM will be a fully-supported platform! The proliferation of Linux-capable handhelds should help make this happen. :-) HTH, -Adam P.
