[ydl-gen] Yellow Dog Install on PowerPC405 based board

[Paul Hartke]

Hello,
I'm attempting to get the Yellow Dog installer up and running on the PowerPC
405 inside a Xilinx Virtex 2 Pro FPGA.  I already have a Linux 2.4 kernel
from http://ppc.bkbits.net:8080/linuxppc-2.4 running with a BusyBox based
ramdisk.image.gz   The kernel has ethernet networking and mounts onboard
CompactFlash devices.

I substituted the ramdisk.image.gz from
http://ydl.osuosl.org/yellowdog-3.0/en/os/images/ and get the output below.

I think signal 11 is a segfault which leads me to believe that the installer
is accessing some peripheral which isn't in this hardware.  There is no
video output.

Suggestions and ideas welcomed.

Thanks.
Paul

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[standard Linux boot messages snipped...]
Greetings.
Yellow Dog install init version 8.0 starting
mounting /proc filesystem... done
mounting /dev/pts (unix98 pty) filesystem... done
Yellow Dog install init version 8.0 using a serial console
remember, cereal is an important part of a nutritionally balanced breakfast.

could not set new controlling tty
checking for NFS root filesystem...no
trying to remount root filesystem read write... done
checking for writeable /tmp... yes
couldn't open /dev/tty4 for syslog -- still using /tmp/syslog
running install...
running /sbin/loader
install exited abnormally -- received signal 11
sending termination signals...done
sending kill signals...done
disabling swap...
unmounting filesystems...
        /dev/pts done
        /dev umount failed (16)
        /proc done
you may safely reboot your system