NFS root woes: No init found

Brian Waite waite at skycomputers.com
Thu Dec 5 09:52:24 EST 2002


Oh I like the thought! I too have had good luch wit the eval board, but now
our custom is biting me. Lets have a looksie at the data.
Thanks for the idea.
Brian

> This is just a wild guess, but maybe there is a data corruption
> problem somewhere.  (Maybe cache-coherency?  I know the 74xx/gt64260
> is a cache-coherent platform but maybe the snooping isn't wired up or
> set up correctly??)
>
> You could try printing out the data the kernel thinks it read for init
> and compare it with what's actually on the disk.  (It seems likely it
> will be different, since the kernel can't tell that it's an ELF file)
>
> Just as a data point, we have had good success running Linux with NFS
> root on both the Galileo Discovery eval board and our own custom board
> (both used the Galileo internal ethernet).
>
> Best,
>   Roland


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