using L4-Linux

[edmundo at rano.demon.co.uk]

I had it sort of running just now ...

In order to achieve this I had to:

 - add "-nopentium" to rmgr's menu.lst line

 - add this to rmgr.cfg.linux:
   task modname "rmgr.cfg"

 - comment out the "boot_priority" lines in rmgr.cfg.linux

 - switch the machine right off beforehand - rebooting isn't sufficient

 - add init=/bin/sh as a boot argument to Linux

 - be lucky - it doesn't seem to work every time I try!
   (because of this element of luck it's hard to know which of the
   other actions is really necessary ...)

I then had no cursor, but a shell, with which I could walk around the
file system using pwd, cd and echo *. It reboots as soon as I do
anything that involves a fork, such as ls, cat or sh. So I'll worry
about configuring X later, right? :-)

My menu.lst contains:

title = Linux
kernel=(fd0)/rmgr -nopentium -sigma0 -configfile
module=(fd0)/main -nokdb
module=(fd0)/sigma0
module=(fd0)/rmgr.cfg.linux
module=(fd0)/glinux.gz root=/dev/hda2 init=/bin/sh

I built main and sigma0 myself under Debian 2.1, i.e. gcc 2.7.2.3 and
binutils 2.9.1.0.19a, from the sources dated 981207. Everything else
was already on grub-ext2fs-floppy from the ftp site. I compile on a
686 machine and run Fiasco on a 486 machine.

Any ideas?

Edmund