NFS Root - I am further ahead

[Marcus Sundberg]

Claude Robitaille <crobitaille at videotron.ca> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> finally, all I had to do is to had an entry into /etc/hosts
> so that mountd's authentication pass.
> 
> Now, on the serial console, I see that the root system is
> mounted via NFS and that some memory is freed but then the
> systerm hangs there. I did some tcpdump while the board is
> booting and I found that:
> 
> /sbin/init gets loaded
> /lib/ld.so.1 -> ld-2.1.1.so gets also loaded
> 
> but this all gets loaded, even if /sbin/init needs libc.so.6
> and libutil.so.1 (as indicated by ldd). Is it normal that theses
> 2 libraries does not get loaded immediately after ld.so.1?

They would, unless ld-2.1.1.so crashed.

> If it is, idea why the system hangs?

Sounds like you haven't made the highly needed MPC8xx modifications
to glibc. See the archive of this list.

//Marcus
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