On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 09:26:13PM -0700, Thorsten von Eicken wrote:
I've been trying to boot the F7 live-cd on a VIA Epia M-6000 (600Mhz
fan-less VIA C3 Eden processor). With the distributed live-cd
(Fedora-7-Live-i686.iso) the machine resets as soon as the kernel starts
(i.e right after the initrd is unpacked).
I built a custom i386 kernel with the VIA drivers and DMA turned off,
which got the kernel to boot. The problem I then have is that when init
should be executed, the system simply hangs and nothing happens. The
last line printed is "Freeing unused kernel memory".
I then built an entire livecd-fedora-minimal system from scratch and
still no joy (same problem where init doesn't run). I then replaced init
by a "hello world" program. If I statically link the hello world program
it happily prints "hello world", but if I dynamically link it it
doesn't. So it looks like /bin/bash (dynamically linked) doesn't run.
At this point I'm at the end of my fedora wisdom. I have previously
successfully booted a custom gentoo 2.6 kernel on this box, and the
ubuntu 6.06.1 system boots as well. I'd rather use fedora, though, and
would appreciate any suggestions either about what to try, or how to get
debug information about what fails when running a dyn linked executable.
Was the other distros you tried specific i386 builds? I'm pretty sure
the C3 doesn't support the full set of i686 extensions (I think it's
basically an i586), so you would certainly have problems with the i686
kernel and were right to build an i386 one. I'm a little surprised you
are having glibc problems however....