Debian on MPC8572DS

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Sep 11 03:40:56 EST 2009


Do you have floating point emulation turned on in the kernel?

- k

On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Isaac Gomez Morales wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to get a Linux distro such as Debian in the following  
> system
>
> System:
> mpc8572ds HW
> u-boot programmed on flash memory
> vanillia linux installed on sata disk
>
> Restrictions:
> i have not apt-get resident on system
>
>
> I have tried the following ways with no succeful results:
>
> I tried to run deboostrap with chroot on mpc8572ds
>
> I tried to run deboostrap on another machine, downloading the  
> correct packages for ppc enviroment and copiny those packages in a  
> new ext2 partition of my 8572 hw. After that i executed "chroot /mnt/ 
> newpartition /bin/bash" and it returned "Illegal instruction". At  
> this point i can't follow the installation and if i force to startup  
> the machine with that rf system, it returns a "kernel panic" with  
> error to handling the signal 4 of init process.
>
> I tried to get start the machine with a debain livecd installation.  
> I created an uImage and initrd from cdrom's vmlinux and initrd.gz  
> with the uboot-mkimage tool, then i booted it from u-boot but the  
> kernel didn't start.
>
> I tried to start a preinstalled Debian for a simillar architecture,  
> in cocnret from a mpc8561 ppc's Debian. I put its hhdd with the  
> Debian rfs on my machine and start it with my uImage and dtb files.  
> The results was the same "kernel panic" and signal 4 error.
>
>
>
> I accept all ideas.
>
> Thanks you all and sorry for my english
>
>
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