Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 01:02:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Ro0tSiEgE LKML <lkml@ro0tsiege.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Soekris not exec'ing INIT
In-Reply-To: <003701c35c56$4e4dcbd0$0500000a@bp>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0308070100080.9517@montezuma.mastecende.com>
References: <003701c35c56$4e4dcbd0$0500000a@bp>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1181
Lines: 27

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Ro0tSiEgE LKML wrote:

> 
> I'm not sure that this is a specific kernel issue or not, but here goes...
> 
> I have a distro (hand compiled) running off of a CF card that's booting from
> a Soekris (Elan SC520) net4501(and net4521) with the console kernel cmdline
> set to ttyS0,19200n81, and the kernel messages show up fine and everything
> over my serial terminal, but when the kernel goes to execute /sbin/init or
> whatever I set init equal to (after the "Freeing unused kernel memory" bit),
> nothing happens, init doesn't get executed (or I cannot see it). This same
> CF card boots and runs fine from a normal PC, but from any Elan I have, init
> never gets executed. What is wrong here?

Userspace compiled for incorrect processor? One common problem is i686 
compiled binaries, you could try the following quick test (but not 100% 
conclusive)

objdump -d binary_file | grep cmov

-- 
function.linuxpower.ca
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/