Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS edmundo@rano.demon.co.uk writes:
Following the instructions at os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco/use.html I built Fiasco and the Hello World server worked. Excellent!
Cool!
Then I tried building L4-Linux and it didn't work ...
Then I noticed that grub-ext2fs-floppy apparently already contains everything you need to run L4-Linux except for L4 itself. So I just copied the fiasco "main" that I had built onto the floppy image as supplied, hacked menu.lst a bit at random, and tried that.
That didn't work either, but the thing that caught my attention was a message something like this:
RMGR: L4/Pentium ...
I was running this on a 486.
This is a misleading message that should be fixed. It only means that Rmgr is not running on L4/486, and that it *will* try to request 4-MB pages from its Sigma0 memory server.
Can you give us a hint on what exectly went wrong, or where the system hung?
So my questions are:
Do the same executables (main, rmgr, sigma0, glinux.gz) run on both 486 and Pentium, or do different versions have to be built?
They should run on both architectures. However, I haven't tested Fiasco (main) a lot on 486s, so there may be minor problems. The other programs have been tested on both Pentiums and 486s.
Regards, Michael