Trouble making a filesystem

[Adrian Chadd]

It's "make distribution" :-)


Adrian

On 7 April 2011 08:03, Andrew Duane <aduane at juniper.net> wrote:

> I was trying to follow the instructions on the MIPS wiki page, but they do
> seem to be volatile. I will check my build setup tomorrow and see what I
> have for TARGET and TARGET_ARCH and all. I didn't do a distribute step, I
> was trying to this afternoon and it just failed completely.
>
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> ________________________________________
> From: Warner Losh [imp at bsdimp.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 5:16 PM
> To: Andrew Duane
> Cc: mips at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Trouble making a filesystem
>
> On Apr 6, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Andrew Duane wrote:
>
> > I'm having trouble making a working filesystem for my OCTEON1 kernel to
> run on. I do a "buildworld", but there are three problems:
> >
> > 1) Most of the executables won't execute, they give "Exec format error".
> The problem seems to be with dynamically linked executables. When I rebuilt
> "/bin/sh" as a static executable, it worked OK. I guess I could manually fix
> every Makefile to use static linking, but that seems absurd.
>
> I've not seen this.  However, I did "recently" change the way to build mips
> from TARGET_ARCH=mips to TARGET_ARCH=mips64eb.  Maybe that's the issue?
>
> > 2) Some things aren't being populated. For example, that the only thing
> in the buildworld output of etc is sendmail. In the installworld output
> there are a handful of subdirectorties, but no "rc" files.
>
> Do you have a make distribution step in your build scripts?  That's what
> populates the system with most of /etc and a few other oddities...
>
> > 3) Eventually, the kernel tips over with:
> >
> >   panic: sched_priority: invalid priority 231: nice 0, ticks 1955000
> ftick 14022821 ltick 14023821 tick pri 59
> >
> > Any thoughts on what I'm missing?
>
> Haven't seen that, but I've not run FreeBSD/mips from source built newer
> than mid January.  Maybe that's a clue?
>
> Warner
>
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