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> I'm trying to port linux to an i386 board.
> The problem is that this board is not a PC, so not all pc-devices are
> available. Most of them are, like the serial ports and the interrupt
> controller, but someting like the real-time-clock is not available.
> And also the timers are running from another frequency and there is no
> bios.

> I have managed to load the kernel, do the uncompressing and starting the
> kernel.
> At this moment I'm stuck in init/main.c

>>Hello,

>>I'm trying to port linux to an i386 board.
>>The problem is that this board is not a PC, so not all pc-devices are
>>available. Most of them are, like the serial ports and the interrupt
>>controller, but someting like the real-time-clock is not available.
>>And also the timers are running from another frequency and there is no
>>bios.

>>I have managed to load the kernel, do the uncompressing and starting the
>>kernel.
>>At this moment I'm stuck in init/main.c

> Have you compiled for x386? I.e. not Pentium something...

> /RogerL

> -Michael

> > BTW. I would take a look at ELinOS. Same might help you to create you
> > "Distribution".

> > -Michael
> Thanks, I will take a look.

> Everything is working now, it will mount the root file system from
> another linux PC using NFS, everything works great.
> But I will still have to make a system which is working stand alone
> and gets the filesystem from ROM.

> Robert