using L4-Linux

[Michael Hohmuth]

edmundo at rano.demon.co.uk writes:

> I had it sort of running just now ...
> [...]
> 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? :-)

> 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.

I have tried the boot floppy you sent me, and I was able to boot
L4Linux into multiuser mode.  However, I had to replace "glinux.gz"
with my own, self-compiled L4Linux server image because the one on the
boot floppy didn't contain drivers for my SCSI card.

One thing you might want to try is booting a newer L4Linux binary (the
one one your floppy is pretty old).  I'll send you mine under separate
cover.

If this also doesn't work, I guess that Fiasco has a problem with
486s.  Right now I cannot test this because I currently don't have a
working 486, but I probably will get one the week after the next.

Michael

PS: I have uploaded a new grub-ext2fs-floppy.gz which contains the
    newest version of all binaries, including Fiasco and working
    configuration files. It's at
    <URL:ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/os/L4/devel/grub-ext2fs-floppy.gz>.

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