I compiled elvis version 1.4 (a vi clone) under Linux today without

difficulties.  I used the System V settings in the makefile, with the

following changes:
CC= gcc

EXTRA= tinytcap$O

LIBS=

PR2=
elvis v.1.4 is available from nic.funet.fi (/pub/gnu)

aeneas.mit.edu (/pub/gnu)  cs.uni-sb.de (/gnu) and other

fine ftp sites near you.
I have some questions for you fellow linux fans out there:
First of all, by way of introduction, I am running Linux on

a 386DX 25MHz clone on a small partition (20M) of an IDE disk.

I don't have MINIX.
1)  mv doesn't seem to move directories properly.  It looks for

something called mvdir and dies.  I want to fix this right away,

so I'm goin to start working on it unless one of you drops me a

line and explains what stupid thing I've done.
2)  When recompiling the kernel, the makefile looks for chmem and

gar.  Since the resulting image seems to work, I suppose these

things aren't necessary.  But what are they?  I'm curious.
3)  Lately when I boot linux (with the hard drive as the root

device) I get the message "child 2 died with code 0000"

(or something of the sort).  What process was child 2?  Should

I be worried?  Everything seems to work fine.
Thanks folks.
Chris

darken@cs.yale.edu

G'day,
  I had the same problem but was more serious, after the message

"child 2 died with code 0000", NOTHING happens. After I have copied

everything from the "floppy root file system" to the "hard disk root file

system", I FORGOT to do a sync. Syncing is VERY important, Linux uses

a 1.5 Meg buffer, there will be alot of information lost if a sync is not

done. Listen to the disk activity when you do a sync!

  I even did a umount /dev/hd2 before I reset the machine. The bootimage

with 0x302 written at location 508 will mount the /dev/hd2 again.
  Hope this is of help
nicholas@cs.uwa.oz.au

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