how to build root filesystem for ixp425

Stavros Markou stma at antcor.com
Mon Aug 18 09:01:14 UTC 2008


Hi,

I am trying to build a root filesystem using the mini guide at
http://people.freebsd.org/~cognet/freebsd_arm.txt but with no luck for
IXP425. Just to clarify some things :

When i am doing a buildworld inside /usr/src all these env variables
inside the mini guide must be exported ? 
What about BUILD_ARCH ? By default i am building a filesystem at a i386
machine so BUILD_ARCH has the i386 value.

I am using Freebsd 7.0 and i also have seen the wiki for AVILA but i got
the same Makefile.inc1 error for setting TARGET_ARCH (even though i am
setting TARGET_ARCH=arm)
I have build the kernel which is loaded fine but when the root
filesystem is mounted via NFS i get : exec /sbin/init : error 8 , so i
think that maybe the root filesystem i 've built is not right.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best Regards,

Stavros.

Stavros Markou 
Senior Software Engineer
ANTCOR S.A.
Email: mailto:stma at antcor.com
Phone: +30 210 52 22 290 
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