[Fedora-livecd-list] boot failure on VIA Epia M-6000 board

[Andy Gospodarek]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 09:26:13PM -0700, Thorsten von Eicken wrote:
> I've been trying to boot the F7 live-cd on a VIA Epia M-6000 (600Mhz 
> fan-less VIA C3 Eden processor). With the distributed live-cd 
> (Fedora-7-Live-i686.iso) the machine resets as soon as the kernel starts 
> (i.e right after the initrd is unpacked).
> 
> I built a custom i386 kernel with the VIA drivers and DMA turned off, 
> which got the kernel to boot. The problem I then have is that when init 
> should be executed, the system simply hangs and nothing happens. The 
> last line printed is "Freeing unused kernel memory".
> 
> I then built an entire livecd-fedora-minimal system from scratch and 
> still no joy (same problem where init doesn't run). I then replaced init 
> by a "hello world" program. If I statically link the hello world program 
> it happily prints "hello world", but if I dynamically link it it 
> doesn't. So it looks like /bin/bash (dynamically linked) doesn't run.
> 
> At this point I'm at the end of my fedora wisdom. I have previously 
> successfully booted a custom gentoo 2.6 kernel on this box, and the 
> ubuntu 6.06.1 system boots as well. I'd rather use fedora, though, and 
> would appreciate any suggestions either about what to try, or how to get 
> debug information about what fails when running a dyn linked executable.
> 

Was the other distros you tried specific i386 builds?  I'm pretty sure
the C3 doesn't support the full set of i686 extensions (I think it's
basically an i586), so you would certainly have problems with the i686
kernel and were right to build an i386 one.  I'm a little surprised you
are having glibc problems however....