[pocket-linux] Chapter 2 Root Disk Problem

[Roman Levandovsky]

Hello Pocket Linux Gurus,

I have been trying to get Chapter 2 to work for about 5 days now, and
finally succeeded in doing so today.

The problem was with the root disk, even though I have compiled the Kernel
properly and had the right things configured in it I would get the Kernel
Panic message telling me to specify init= parameter in order to boot the
file system.

After a lot of digging I found the boot and root disk images on your web
site. I then used your root disk with my kernel and everything worked
properly, so that lead me to believe that my root disk was the problem.

I tried compiling bash with --enable-static-link option but would get the
following error:
In file included from shell.h:41,

from shell.c:48:

externs.h:163: conflicting types for `gethostname'

/usr/include/unistd.h:734: previous declaration of `gethostname'

externs.h:196: conflicting types for `strncasecmp'

/usr/include/string.h:277: previous declaration of `strncasecmp'

make: *** [shell.o] Error 1

I finally found on one of the posts that this is related to not having
glibc-static-devel package installed. Once I have obtained the proper rpm
for my Mandrake 10 system, I was able to compile bash properly and copy it
to the root disk, after that everything went smoothly and I was able to boot
into my file system from the root disk.

I hope this helps others that are trying to get through chapter 2 and are
having troubles compiling bash.
When I was not able to compile bash with --enable-static-link option, I just
dropped it and compiled it without it, needless to say that I was not able
to boot my file system from the root disk, however, the error is quite
obscure to why one would not be able to boot. It was Kernel Panic and the
fact that I needed to pass in the init parameter into the kernel, it would
be much more useful if it would say your file system is corrupted or
something of that nature to make life easier.


Roman.
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