Re: 2.1.21/axp and modules

Mikael Nykvist (viper@nova.campus.luth.se)
Sat, 18 Jan 1997 02:02:49 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Richard Henderson wrote:

> > Booting works ok after specifying "init=/sbin/init", but
> > insmod'ing a module gives an instant reboot.
> [...]
> > So, any1 had any success with the new modtools on axp?
>
> Yes, that's what I wrote them on, though on an eb164
> rather than a noname.
>
> Such problems you describe I have never seen. This
> happens with _any_ module? A good test is rd.o.

Well, nfs.o crashes instantly. psaux can be insmod'd but doesn't
work, and when rmmod'd the machines rebootes instantly.

Insmod'ng rd.o wrote 3 "strange" chars on stdout, and then trying to
init the ramdisk gives:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram bs=1k count=2048
dd: /dev/ram: Unknown error 18446744073709491984

Doesn't look too good..

If the system include files matters, they are from the redhat
glibc-0.961212 archive.

/Mikael