Thanks Bryne. The -system argument is just what I needed.
On Feb 4, 6:45 pm, Bryne McCullough <bryne.mccullo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Perhaps you need the -system argument to the emulator. So after
> building Android and the kernel tree, I do something like this:
>
> $ out/host/linux-x86/bin/emulator -kernel kernel/arch/arm/boot/zImage -
> system out/target/product/generic/
>
> On Feb 4, 2:37 pm, mshah <meelaps...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I've checked out the goldfish branch and have built using the arch/arm/
> > configs/goldfish_defconfig .config file, the prebuilt arm-eabi
> > toolchain, and ARCH set to arm. However, running the emulator with
> > the custom kernel does not work:
>
> > $ emulator -kernel arch/arm/boot/zImage
>
> > The emulator remains at the "Android..." screen. For about a minute
> > after launching the emulator, "adb devices" returns "emulator-5554
> > offline" after which adb does not find any devices. I would
> > appreciate any help regarding what I should do to get the emulator to
> > boot a custom kernel.
>
> > Thank you.
>
> > On Feb 4, 10:38 am, Greg KH <gre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Leon <astroli.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I am not familiar with git.
>
> > > There are _many_ tutorials on the web which will help you resolve this
> > > problem. Have you tried reading them?
>
> > > > I do not know to how to switch from refs/heads/android-2.6.27 to refs/
> > > > heads/android-goldfish-2.6.27.
> > > > Could you tell me how to use git command to get android-
> > > > goldfish-2.6.27 ?
>
> > > Just checkout the remote android-goldfish-2.6.27 branch. This can be
> > > done in a variety of different ways, but the most common would be:
>
> > > git checkout -t origin/android-goldfish-2.6.27 -b goldfish
>
> > > which would create a local branch called goldfish and check it out and
> > > cause it to track the upstream goldfish branch.
>
> > > good luck,
>
> > > greg k-h
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