The nearest I've got to running L4-Linux so far, apparently, was by
dd-ing grub-ext2fs-floppy onto a floppy, adding "main" and "sigma0",
which I compiled myself, then booting with the following menu.lst:
title = Linux
kernel=(fd0)/rmgr -nopentium -sigma0
module=(fd0)/main -nokdb
module=(fd0)/sigma0
module=(fd0)/glinux.gz root=/dev/hda2
The first error that I get is:
RMGR: ERROR: while parsing config file: syntax error
at line 1, col 2
Does this matter? I don't know which config file it's talking about.
There's a rmgr.cfg.linux on the floppy, but I'm not booting with it,
because it made things worse when I tried using it.
At "RMGR: WARNING: there were 1 boot errors - continue?" I press
return ...
Then I get a mixture of kernel start-up messages and L4 errors which
move too quickly for me to note them exactly. There are several
screens full of "sigma0 denies mapping", and there's a "Hmm, strange,
that shouldn't happen any more", and the last kernel message, before
the machine reboots by itself, is "INIT: version 2.75 booting". All
quotations may be approximate.
I just tried it again, for about the fifth time, and it didn't get as
far this time. This time its last words were:
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
wake_up_process: ipc failed
wake_up_process: ipc failed
wake_up_process: ipc failed
...
wake_up_process: ipc failed
Can anyone suggest what I can try next? Does anyone have this working?
I'm using the files dated 981207 and it's a 486 machine that I'm
using. (The other machines that I tried grind to a halt very early on
with "space.cc:179: failed assertion `size == PAGE_SIZE'".)
Does someone have working binaries of "main" and "sigma0" that I could
try, to see if there's something strange about my hardware?
The Hello World server does run, by the way.
Edmund
