[cobalt-developers] my last hurdle

[Dax Kelson <dax-cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm one hurdle away from running Red Hat 7.1 on my Qube 3, with reiserfs
> as my root filesystem, running 2.4.4ac6+cobaltpatches+Cisco350-802.11b.

My drive layout:

/dev/hda1 - 30MB - ext2
	(contains /boot/vmlinux.gz)
/dev/hda2 - 256MB - swap
/dev/hda3 - 19+GB - reiserfs
	(contains / filesystem with Red Hat 7.1)

I'm using the kernel mentioned above.  It has ext2 and reiserfs compiled
into it.

When the kernel boots, this is the last thing I see on my serial console:

VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
VFS: root device "" or 03:03  (debug I added)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed
Running init.  (debug I added)

And it sits here.  Nothing happens, no booting progress.

When I take the hard drive out of the Qube 3 and stick in to a PC,
booting the exact same kernel on a floppy, with a serial console attached
to the PC, it works!

Is there anything special about "/sbin/init" on the standard software
load on Qube 3?

If I replaced the Red Hat 7.1 /sbin/init, with /sbin/init from a stock
Qube 3 would it get me anywhere?

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs