MBX860: How to boot with initrd ?

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.990109144040.12262A-100000 at persephone.cs.nmt.edu> you write:
> How big is your initrd? Try it with a trivial one (~2k or so) and see if
> that works.

I've been playing with a 4 MB initrd (I have 36 MB of RAM on the  MBX
board). Just tried a 2kB initrd (empty, not even a filesystem in it);
but at least the kernel should boot, right? It hangs...


Hm... No luck with the latest snapshot of egcs either; it  dies  with
"Internal compiler error in function emit_move_insn_1"

But ok, the install of linuxppc-R4 on my PowerBook  is  running  with
only minor problems so far...

Ok, now I tryed this with a set of native compilers: egcs-2.90.25  as
comes with linuxppc-R4, then egcs-1.1.1, and the latest egcs-19990103
snapshot:

egcs-19990103 both cross and native: "Internal compiler error in
        function emit_move_insn_1" when compiling init/main.c (line
        2663).

egcs-1.1.1 both cross and native: compiles fine, but the kernel hangs

egcs-2.90.25 native: compiles fine, and the kernel BOOTS!!! [*All*
        configurations I failed to get running with the other
        compiler versions run fine when I compile with egcs-2.90.25
        from linuxppc-R4!]


Either I am too dumb to build EGCS, or ... Has anybodyy else seen
strange problems with later versions of egcs?

Wolfgang

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