[Peeweelinux] 2.4 troubles

[Stephen Lee]

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 06:39, Al Whorley wrote:
>   I am trying to move my Peewee install to 2.4.  I have gotten the compat* 
> packages, and installed them.  I made the necessary changes to the kernel 
> Makefile (changed gcc to kgcc and added the -D__KERNEL__ -I$(HPATH) to the 
> CC variable). I sourced the i386-glibc21-linux-env.sh script.  everything 
> compiles just fine, and then I created a custom kernel package, with the 
> /dev nodes I need.  Then I deploy to the compact flash, which also goes 
> well.  The problem is that my kernel appears to load and then immediately 
> after load, it prints a short message and reboots.  I can't read the 
> message, it flashes by very quickly.  I can pick out that it is printing 
> the normal 'Decompressing Linux'  message.  If I use a 2.2 kernel, 
> everything goes just fine.
> 
>    Any help that anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated.

Have you tried compiling your custom 2.4 kernel on a distribution
already capable of running 2.4? I did most of my Peewee development on a
Redhat7.1 box as I didn't need to build any new packages other than the
kernel itself and there was no obvious compatibility problems.

Stephen