In file included from ../ncurses/curses.priv.h:283:0,
                 from ../ncurses/lib_gen.c:19:
_24249.c:835:15: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘int’
../include/curses.h:1594:56: note: in definition of macro ‘mouse_trafo’
 #define mouse_trafo(y,x,to_screen) wmouse_trafo(stdscr,y,x,to_screen)
                                                        ^

CatsUnited wrote:

NerbyParties_ wrote:

CatsUnited wrote:

Jonathan50 wrote:

Bump…
So far I'm making “IDK Linux”. Anybody got a better name?

IDK Linux is a great name tho.

I Agree. IDK Linux Is A Cool Name But You Could Make It Mean Something Different; You Could Make It : Internet Development Kit Linux.

What about the International Dubstep Kernel?

TheMatrixKid wrote:

I'm trying to test my very very minimal Linux image (Busybox + Linux kernel taken from Tiny Core Linux, ~5mb) but I keep getting an error on boot.

The kernel reports “mount: cannot mount /dev/sr0 on /: file/folder does not exist”.

I've checked that /dev/sr0 exists (I set it up with mknod sr0 b 11 0) and tried copying it from my host computer. Neither worked.
What am I doing wrong?

Jonathan50 wrote:

TheMatrixKid wrote:

I'm trying to test my very very minimal Linux image (Busybox + Linux kernel taken from Tiny Core Linux, ~5mb) but I keep getting an error on boot.

The kernel reports “mount: cannot mount /dev/sr0 on /: file/folder does not exist”.

I've checked that /dev/sr0 exists (I set it up with mknod sr0 b 11 0) and tried copying it from my host computer. Neither worked.
What am I doing wrong?

does / exist?
btw what is the initrd/initramfs doing?

mknod /dev/sr0 b 11 0
mount /dev/sr0 /

Jonathan50 wrote:

Jonathan50 wrote:

TheMatrixKid wrote:

I'm trying to test my very very minimal Linux image (Busybox + Linux kernel taken from Tiny Core Linux, ~5mb) but I keep getting an error on boot.

The kernel reports “mount: cannot mount /dev/sr0 on /: file/folder does not exist”.

I've checked that /dev/sr0 exists (I set it up with mknod sr0 b 11 0) and tried copying it from my host computer. Neither worked.
What am I doing wrong?

does / exist?
btw what is the initrd/initramfs doing?

waitwaitwait I think I know what the problem is
if / hasn't yet been mounted you can't access /dev/sr0 (since / hasn't been mounted yet)
so in your init script or whatever that's running the mount command, before you run mount you should run mknod:

mknod /dev/sr0 b 11 0
mount /dev/sr0 /

Try that
btw unless you know exactly what hardware it's going to be run on (like some embedded systems or just one device) it's usually better to use something like udev or mdev.
Hope that helps!

TheMatrixKid wrote:

I tried that, both with /sbin/mknod and mknod, and it couldn't read the program. It's able to read the inittab, but nothing else. Odd.

Jonathan50 wrote:

TheMatrixKid wrote:

I tried that, both with /sbin/mknod and mknod, and it couldn't read the program. It's able to read the inittab, but nothing else. Odd.

Is mknod on the initrd/initramfs?

TheMatrixKid wrote:

1) Don't have an initramfs/initrd.

2) Rewrote the whole thing, see this for info.

3) All works now, building package manager and preparing libs for X.org and Openbox.

Jonathan50 wrote:

Linux-libre (Linux with blobs removed) is cool
Direct link to 4.3 xz tarball: http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/4.3-gnu/linux-libre-4.3-gnu.tar.xz

Jonathan50 wrote:

TheMatrixKid wrote:

1) Don't have an initramfs/initrd.

2) Rewrote the whole thing, see this for info.

3) All works now, building package manager and preparing libs for X.org and Openbox.

Nice! (btw GNUStep isn't exactly a desktop, but oh well )
Does it have a custom package manager?

• System V style init – well there's a clone of it at http://nongnu.org/sysvinit/
  
• BSD style init – rather simple init system from BSD
  
• Upstart – Canonical's init system, used in Ubuntu and previously in Fedora
  
• launchd – iOS and OS X init system
  
• systemd – Ugh. Used in Fedora. Does everything
  

novice27b wrote:

I've compiled the linux kernel, and busybox. I put my rootfs and bzImage on an ext2 partiton. When I try to boot from grub like this:

set root=(hd0,msdos1)
linux /bzImage
initrd /rootfs.cpio.gz
boot

Grub just hangs after I type boot. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?

Edit: I made it work by building linux with `make defconfig` instead of `make allnoconfig`

Jonathan50 wrote:

novice27b wrote:

I've compiled the linux kernel, and busybox. I put my rootfs and bzImage on an ext2 partiton. When I try to boot from grub like this:

set root=(hd0,msdos1)
linux /bzImage
initrd /rootfs.cpio.gz
boot

Grub just hangs after I type boot. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?

Edit: I made it work by building linux with `make defconfig` instead of `make allnoconfig`

If you still want a minimal(-ish) kernel, run `make allnoconfig` and then run `make menuconfig` and go to General Setup, then check ‘Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support’ as well as ‘Support initial ramdisks compressed using gzip’.

TheMatrixKid wrote:

Jonathan50 wrote:

Linux-libre (Linux with blobs removed) is cool
Direct link to 4.3 xz tarball: http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/4.3-gnu/linux-libre-4.3-gnu.tar.xz

Compiled that, it's awesome. I'm currently using it in my distro.

Shame they didn't patch over the penguin. The Linuxlibre penguin looks cool.