In message your last message you wrote: > 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/ > I had kinda worked that out ;-) This is after patching and compiling the kernel. I have scince tried 2.2.13 as reccomended and this doesn't work either, however the error(s) are different, 2.2.13 crashes much more nastily with pages of debug info etc /then/ hangs. > 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. > > > Thanks,
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