Upgrading to kernel 2.4.6 with old init program

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Sep 24 04:00:32 EST 2001


In message <41EDEC3C1B88D51186EB00A0C9CFADF702FA81 at AMWMAIL> you wrote:
>
> I am upgrading my Linux kernel from 2.2.13 to 2.4.6 on an MPC823. When the
> kernel startup process gets to running the sbin/init program I am getting a
> usage error for ld.so and then a kernel panic. It looks like it is
> attempting to run ld.so. I am still using an old ramdisk with old versions
> of executables that ran successfully on Linux 2.2.13. Have the file formats
> changed somehow? Do I need to get the source for the executables and rebuild
> them with the latest libraries? If so, where can I get them?

This souns as if you are still running code based on  libc-1.99.  You
need a modified version of /lib/ld.so.1 then. There is one on our FTP
server,  AFAIR  in  ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/ld.so* (or
maybe in the "patches" directory?).

Wolfgang Denk

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