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