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On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 09:05 +0000, Pierre Cassimans wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> i tried out the x86 howto, and i have to say it is a great document. But i |
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> still have problems booting my device. |
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> The device boots, but once it have to init, it stays there right after |
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> Freeing unused memory. The device doesn't generate a kernel panic, and i can |
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> reboot it with ctrl-alt-delete, so i guess there was some king of init done. |
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So.. you mean you don't get a login prompt?? Funny. I can get a |
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login-prompt using that howto |
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> I tried putting init=linuxrc as kernel option in my grub conf but that gave |
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> me the same status. |
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kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,800x600-16@60 |
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> Any clues? |
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> In the howto is a little error. Here are the 2 fact that are not correct i |
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> think |
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> ROOT=/embedded_rootfs make modules_install |
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> cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage |
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> /embedded_rootfs/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.x |
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For me, the above command didn't work. I had to do the module copies on |
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my own. |
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> Another tip i can give is for grub. If you want to make a cf bootable with |
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> grub and want to install grub on your cf from you develop station, you could |
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> do it this way: |
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> In grub shell: |
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> device (hd0) /dev/hdg /*where /dev/hdg is your cf card. This could be |
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> /dev/sdb */ |
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> root (hd0,0) |
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> setup (hd0) |
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Yeah.. Grub was a little hard to get into the MBR. I had to re-emerge |
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grub a few times before I could Grub my HD. (i installed into vmware) |
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and that also using grub and noto grub-install. |
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> What also would be nice is to give some examples of booting the embedded |
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> device, like working from ram or with initrd, cramfs, squashfs, root pivots, |
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> using unionfs, overlays, etc. I know this is not easy, but it would help the |
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> noobs (like me) alot. |
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Currently I'm booting it from a simulated HD and yet to explore anything |
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further than that. I've still not worked on it since I last reported |
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success with it. Dropbear still has not worked due to no /dev/ptys |
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Ow Mun Heng |
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Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM |
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98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! |
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Neuromancer 17:19:44 up 4:06, 5 users, load average: 0.70, 0.92, 0.72 |
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