This helps with the menu - it gets reduced to 3 positions. jffs nfs and shell.
But I was not able to boot form mdt1 - it is looking for mtdblock1
Message read from LCD :
ROOT_DEVICE=mtdblock1
CMDLINE=keepinitrd root=mtdblock1
....
(SNIP) loading modules
....
"No valid root device was specified. Please add root=/dev/something to
the kernel command line and try again."
About the patch :
We want to skip blockdevices and boot form mtdX - don't we ?
Maybe the section
" if [ "$fstype" == "(jffs2)" ]; then
# ROOT_FSTYPE="jffs2"
ROOT_DEVICE="$dev"
fi"
Should somehow compare the partitions numbers ? mtdblock1 should go to
mtd1 and so on... Just haven't figured out how to do it in smart way
...
Lack of console is annoying too.
Is boot_root() section init.sh (in packages/initrdscripts/files/)
responsible for that ?
"cd $BOOT_ROOT
exec switch_root -c /dev/console $BOOT_ROOT /sbin/init
"
How about changing /dev/console to something else (ie. ttyS0 ? ).
Another thing that has crossed my mind today - LAB has nice feature -
it there is no action taken it automatically scans for zImage and
tries to boot from media that provides it. It would be nice too -
especially after 100th boot when you don't want to choose again the
proper device to boot from...
> From: Koen Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Angstrom-devel] [Test fodder] initramfs images for
> h2200, h3900, h5000 and hx4700
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> Michal Panczyk schreef:
>
>
> | At this point - how to get params working out of the box? Some kind of
> | syncing between initramfs kernel and regular kernel is needed - get
> | both of them to support mtd1. Or maybe it is in the boot script
> | waitnig to pass the root value as /dev/$1 or something like that ?
>
> See (thunderbird damaged) patch at the bottom
>
> | Anther thing in that matter :
> | How to get the second kernel (or kexec - i don't know which one is it)
> | to be more talkative. Console gets silent after :
>
> I noticed that as well, it would be nice if boot messages can go over
> serial, since psplash obscures them anyway.
>
> | As it goes for the menu it can see following choices:
> | 0 : mtdblock0 (unknown)
> | 1 : mtdblock1 (jffs2)
> | 2 : mtdblock2 (unknown)
> | 3 : mtdblock3 (unknown)
> | 4 : NFS (nfsroot=192.168.2.200:/srv/nfs/oe/image)
> | 5 : shell
> |
> | Values 0 and 3 should get removed.
>
> I think uncommenting line 85 of the bootmenu script would accomplish
> that (see patch).
>
> | SD boot should be added.
>
> AIUI that gets added when it detects an sd card, so something else is wrong.
>
> | A reset option would be nice too.
> |
> | Where in oe is the script controlling that menu ?
>
> org.openembedded.dev/packages/initrdscripts/files/30-bootmenu.sh
>
> | The boot process:
> | I chose "1" and the screen blanked. Nothing else happened until now. I
> | am not sure if I did everything as it was supposed to be done. Judging
> | form Koen's experience the new zImage should just be linked to old
> | zImage in /boot dir. And that didn't work form me.
> |
> | The choice process itself is kind a hard - there are debug messages
> | comming in from the keys driver that make the screen unreadable, but
> | that is a different story.
>
> That's probably a simple kernel patch, Paul, Milan?
>
> As promised, the totally untested patch:
>
>
> # old_revision [16f0fa7ec858ba228dd9d241b0cff7a309a42dff]
> #
> # patch "packages/initrdscripts/files/30-bootmenu.sh"
> # from [b378e73bcd2daa97bd9e9134000a2ade7fe2538f]
> # to [5d48cde70bc16d340f2c5ad3ec825874bec7c228]
> #
> ============================================================
> - --- packages/initrdscripts/files/30-bootmenu.sh
> b378e73bcd2daa97bd9e9134000a2ade7fe2538f
> +++ packages/initrdscripts/files/30-bootmenu.sh
> 5d48cde70bc16d340f2c5ad3ec825874bec7c228
> @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ while read maj min nblk dev; do
>
> ~ get_partition_type
> ~ if [ "$fstype" != "ext2" -a "$fstype" != "ext3" -a "$fstype" !=
> "vfat" -a "$fstype" != "jffs2" ]; then
> - -# continue
> + continue
> ~ true
> ~ fi
>
> @@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ else
> ~ # jffs2 is not recognized by mount automagically
> ~ if [ "$fstype" == "(jffs2)" ]; then
> ~ ROOT_FSTYPE="jffs2"
> + ROOT_DEVICE="$dev"
> ~ fi
> ~ CMDLINE="$CMDLINE root=$ROOT_DEVICE"
> ~ fi
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Best regards
Michal Panczyk
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