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

I don't really know where busybox 1.01 came from.  It is 413,760 bytes. 
It is dated Jan 2005 on one of my computers, where it boots BL3 perfectly.

The problem occurs on only two computers, on both of which LOOP BL3.40 
boots fine but ext2 BL3 and BL2 do not, with kernels 2.2.16 or 2.2.26. 
ext2 BL3 and BL2 boot with kernel 2.4.31 and this busybox.

On the first computer there is a complaint about not finding init, but I 
could warm reboot, on the second one a GPF, and I had to power off and on 
again.

These computers both have known hardware problems.  Apparently kernel 
2.4.31 can deal with the problems, as can (on the first computer anyway) 
busybox 1.00-pre7 (but not 1.01 or 1.10 that I compiled).

The first computer board arrived dead and we replaced 6 bulging 
capacitors.  It still has problems mounting/unmounting drives (umounts but 
says it can't) but otherwise works fine as long as I use either an older 
busybox or a newer kernel.  600MHz.

The second had dead floppy,serial,parallel controllers (but okay IDE) and 
we put in an I/O card.  It was sometimes not booting.  Today it refused to 
boot half the time until we replaced the AGP card with ISA, when it booted 
some of the time, or PCI.  Framebuffer no longer worked (it was very 
scrambled) with AGP or PCI card.  Then the video died completely so we 
don't need to worry about booting linux on it any more.


We can use the space.  We have spare computers.

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> Correction:  busybox 1.0.1 was not from BL3.40, which uses 1.00-pre7, but
> was compiled by a list member (Ken?).  The BL3.40 insmod works, as does
> the 1.1.0 that I compiled.
>
> The 1.0.1 also does not work to boot BL3.40 - it gives a message about
> kernel panic, init not found.  I will delete it and replace with busybox
> 1.1.0 (or Steven's busybox for BL3.40).
>
>
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > On one computer, in BL2 or BL3, using kernels 2.2.16 (mine) or 2.2.26
> > (Steven's), ext2, no modules will insert.  (Yes they are there in ./misc
> > or ./net).
> >
> > Function not implemented
> > no module by that name found
> >
> > Loop BL3.40 works properly.  I can chroot from there to ext2 BL3 and the
> > modules insert.  If I chroot to BL2 they still do not insert.
> >
> > With my kernel 2.4.31 (BL2 or BL3) they insert properly.
> >
> > In ext BL3 (which may be 3.32 with updates, not 3.40) I am using busybox
> > insmod.  417820 bytes.  version 1.0.1  (I think from BL3.40).
> >
> > BL2 has /sbin/insmod 88 bytes (from Slackware 7.1?), which also does not
> > insert slhc.
> >
> > It also has a busybox 1.01 insmod (from BL3?)
> > cd /busybox101
> > ./insmod slhc
> > Illegal instruction.
> >
> > And a busybox 1.10 which I compiled.
> > cd /busybox110
> > ./insmod slhc
> >
> > THIS WORKED.
> >
> > I symlinked /sbin/insmod to /busybox110/busybox and now insmod works with
> > my 2.2.16 kernel (as tested in BL2).
> >
> >
> >
> > On the other computer there are no such problems with insmod and older
> > kernels.  It has the /sbin 88 byte insmod.
> >
> >
> >
> > So there appears to be some hardware problem specific to the first
> > computer which causes the BL3 busybox 1.0.1 and the SW7.1 /sbin/insmod not
> > to work with older kernels but to work with the 2.4.31 kernel.  Busybox
> > 1.1.0 insmod works on both computers with all kernels.  I have symlinked
> > /bin/busybox to busybox 1.1.0 now in BL2.
> >
> > The computer that had problems also sometimes refuses to umount mounted
> > partitions.  The busybox 1.1.0 umount just worked.
> >
> >
> > Steven, please consider updating busybox for BL3.40 to a later stable
> > version than 1.0.1.
> >
> > My busybox should be at http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl  (busybox110?).
> >
> >
> > The next door neighbor is taking care of 5 young grandchildren for the
> > summer and they would love to have a computer for the internet and to play
> > games.  Steven, which of the games for BL3 are suitable for 3 to 10 year
> > olds?  We also have some DOS games and are booting with loadlin.  We can
> > add a second 120MB or even 200MB hard disk.
> >
> > Sindi
> >
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