Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:30:50 +0200 (EET) | From | Sergey Kubushin <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Re: 2.3.49 - rrunner does not build too... |
| |
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Sergey Kubushin wrote: > > > Unfortunately enough, vanilla 2.3.49 with some errors fixed (nothing > > substantial, just some drivers fixed to get them compile) does not boot here > > at all :(( "Uncompressing... OK. Now booting the kernel" and the machine is > > dead... > > > > Initrd strikes back? People, will it EVER be fixed? We did already make the > > setproctitle() fix (the right way IMHO with a coupla syscalls and supporting > > userspace function which can be forced into glibc or made a separate lib), > > but we're unable to test it :(( > > As far as I know, initrd _is_ fixed. Funny thing: B. D. Elliot and I > both posted workarounds for the problem, and you didn't even comment. > Now you blurt "People, will it EVER be fixed?". Color me unimpressed.
Look, I'm NOT a kernel hacker. I have helluva lot of another work and I can NOT spend all of my time struggling with omissions and miscellaneous typos in kernel sources which should have not been there if somebody did try to compile the kernel before releasing. I'm a distribution maker and I have much more urgent things to do. Yes, I do want to have some 2.3.xx which does boot and which I can use as a base for a distro's beta. And I'm ready to help in reaching this goal doing my best.
But it's not me, who is the kernel writer...
> WRT (your) boot problem: If you're good enough to add syscalls to the > kernel, you're good enough to sprinkle printk's around and at least try > to see where it hangs. Posting diagnostic info might lead to resolution > of your problem whereas posting sarcastic comments certainly will not.
I'd like to. But unfortunately I do NOT have enough time to do exclusively kernel hacking and debugging. Yes, I can try some options, trace an oops etc., but I will NOT spend all of my time trying to solve misteries kinda "Why does the thing not boot at all?"... And I can't reboot my machine umpting times a day for nothing. Especially considering the fact that often encountered full fsck (we don't have journalling FS in kernel yet, do we?) on 36 Gbyte disks takes almost an hour...
=========================================================================== Sergey Kubushin aka the Tamer < > The impossible we do immediately. e-mail: ksi@ksi-linux.com SK320-RIPE < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. ===========================================================================
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |