[BusyBox] Re: Help getting .49 booted on a 2.4 kernel

[Bob Van Gulick]

Hi Larry,

First of all, thanks for your response

I found out why I'm getting the "linuxrc: applet not found" message.  In
Config.h, I have BB_INIT and BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC defined, but not BB_LINUXRC
(Shouldn't this be on by default?).   Therfore, linuxrc was not added to the
applet list in applet.h.  Ok, now the message is gone, but I now get "Out of
Memory" messages from the kernel.  I stopped in "oom_kill" (out of memory
kill function in the kernel) where the out of memory message was being
printed.  I then did a stack trace.  My stack was huge which caused the out
of memory error, with kernel_thread calling itself over and over again.  I
gave up printing the stack after 5000 or so of these kernel_thread recursive
calls.  Really strange.

I tried the .50pre code with the same results.  Also, since the 2.3.99
kernel worked for me with BB 0.45, I decided to try BB 0.49 with it.  Guess
what, it also got the out of memory error and the kernel tried to kill
linuxrc.

I must be building my kernel differently than you since you have things
working with 2.4.  Any more suggestions would be appreciated.

Bob Van Gulick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Doolittle" <ldoolitt at recycle.lbl.gov>
To: "Bob Van Gulick" <rvangulick at navicent.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 11:30 AM
Subject: Help getting .49 booted on a 2.4 kernel


> Bob -
>
> As another data point, try with the CVS copy.  I have used
> both a patched 0.49, and recent CVS versions, to boot an
> embedded StrongARM with kernel 2.4.0.  My documentation
> (a little out of date) for doing this from pristine sources
> is at http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/ .  I have been
> through the "Sorry, there is not enough memory in your computer"
> ritual, but have never ssen "linuxrc: applet not found".
>
>      - Larry Doolittle   <LRDoolittle at lbl.gov>
>