Re: how to build root filesystem for ixp425

[Stavros Markou <stma%antcor.com@localhost>]

Hi,

My main problem is that i am reading how tos  from an official site (Freebsd Arm) that are not working, at least for the moment, at all. I want to find out if i am doing something wrong or not.
Actually i think i know why i get this error. I am building executable for little-endian machine but ixp425 is big-endian. The problem is that when i am giving the TARGET_* options to the make command line the system uses i386 cc which is not capable of understanding -mbig-endian option.

Best Regards,

Stavros.
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 13:21 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Stavros Markou <stma%antcor.com@localhost> wrote:
> > I am trying to build a root filesystem using the mini guide at
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~cognet/freebsd_arm.txt but with no luck for
> > IXP425.
> NetBSD has its own mechanisms to build root file system by 'one click'.
> Unfortunaly I don't know about FreeBSD cross-compilation technique.
>
> > I have build the kernel which is loaded fine but when the root filesystem is
> > mounted via NFS i get : exec /sbin/init : error 8 , so i think that maybe
> > the root filesystem i 've built is not right.
> Look to the /sbin/init source code. It should be somehow simple to
> understand what the error code 8 means.

Stavros Markou
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