Re: failed to build pistachio

Absolutely right!

I was able to build ia32-kernel (pistachio) in ia32-kernel-build and
some utilities in ia32-user-build directory.

I finally created a disk image for booting with qemu. Everything looks
fine. I didn't see any errors while setting grub and creating a disk
image.


I'm now wondering if it's right or not showing the following message
after boot-up.


------
    GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

       [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.   For
         the   first   word,  TAB  lists  possible  command
         completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
         completions of a device/filename. ]

grub >
------

If I type 'boot' on the 'grub >' prompt, it says :

Error 8: Kernel must be loaded before booting.



It sounds a bit weird. I expected the similar situation that I saw in
hello-world project, jumping into kernel-debugger. I also turned on
kernel debugger options including '>[Y]      Enter kernel debugger on
startup'.

Isn't it enough to enter debugger mode? Otherwise, did i do something
wrong when setting grub? I mean wrong entry-point in grub?



I'd like to know what's correct when loaded kickstart, sigma0 and
pingpong.


I really thank you for your quick response.








Jan Stoess wrote: 
> Cheeky,
> 
> I guess you're trying to build the 0.4 version of pistachio using a recent gcc 4.x compiler. Also, you run into a scripting  error -- awk problem if I remember correctly -- when building asmsyms.h. Pistachio 0.4 contains a pretty outdated code base compared to the current CVS version. I'd suggest you to check out the CVS tree from our public CVS. That version contains a fix for the script error and also compiles with gcc 4. See http://l4ka.org/projects/pistachio/download.php for details. Also, you may want to have a look at http://l4ka.org/projects/pistachio/buildstatus/ to see which gcc versions may have problems with the current CVS tree. 
> 
> Regards,
> -Jan
> 
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