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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > Do I really just chroot or should I reboot to this partition somehow?
>
> Yes, but as I said earlier, the uClibc rootfs will not work with Linux
> 2.2. You need to boot with 2.4 and then chroot.
>
> David

This time I booted with the 2.4.31 scsi/usb/framebuffer kernel.  I had to 
remark out aspi8dos.sys in config.sys or it would not boot (F5 to bypass 
config.sys to get it to boot so I could edit config.sys).  And now linux 
tels me there is a parity error in Data-in phase.
scsi0:  At time of recovery, card was not paused.
scsi0:  Dumping Card State in Data-in phase, at SEQADDR 0x79
Card was paused
Lots more error messages in all caps.
...................
aic7xxx_abort returns 0x2003
scsi0:0:2:0 Attempting to queue a TARGET RESET message....
Unable to clear parity error.  Resetting bus.
scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus 
reset:  host 0 channel 0 id 2 lun 0
--------------
I hope this means there is something wrong with scsi device ide 2 
- the CD burner - rather than the scsi controller card.  It had sometimes 
not worked before but I thought it was a user error.

Good thing we just finished replacing the other computer (with DMA 
problem) with another one with IDE CD burner.


Anyway, despite scsi problems and framebuffer use, I was able, with 2.4.31 
kernel, to chroot to /uclibc and the prompt is now:

[root@BasicLinux /]#
ls shows color and puts / after directories (unlike the BL2 ls)

Is it worth trying to compile ndiswrapper with uclibc?  It did not work 
with gcc 2.9.3 - which version did not work for you?


I tried to compile fbutils and was told I don't have bison.  I do have 
flex, which it also needs.

Then I tried to compile e3 but I need nasm.

Are these available precompiled for uclibc?

awesfx comes with a .configure, which checked for libasound headers 
version >= 1.0.0... not present
cxonfigure:  error:  Sufficiently new version of libasound not found.

I think I had compiled this in BL2 by editing out asfxload and alsa lines 
in Makefile.in and copying to Makefile.  libasound is I think alsa.

So I tried to edit Makefile.in but there is no pico or e3pi.
I found vi.  To insert text type i first, to give commands type ESC,
to exit without saving in command mode type :q!  or to save :wq
To search for also ESC /alsa.

This still did not configure.  It configured after I edited
configure to delete all sections with alsa in them.

If I run 'make' I get a lot of undefined references to 'pow' and 'log' but 
it did get partway through compilation and I have an sfxload.o now.

This had compiled with gcc 2.95.3 or maybe it was egcs.  I think I just 
edited Makefile.in and did not configure at all.

I will try something easier with uclibc, some day.

Sindi