NFS Root - I am further ahead

[Claude Robitaille]

hi Marcus,

I've just downloaded libc-1.99-8xx from linuxppc.cs.nmt.edu
and tried it but without success. Is that library known to work?
I presume so but I am asking just in case.

Claude

On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Marcus Sundberg wrote:

> 
> 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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