Dmitry Artamonow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 07:34:21PM +0300, Sergei Organov wrote: >> Marcin Juszkiewicz writes: >> > Dnia Tuesday 04 of March 2008, Sergei Organov napisał: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I'm trying to boot hx2790 using CF card, HaRET, and images taken from >> >> http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/autobuild/hx2000/. >> >> >> >> The kernel starts to boot, but then fails with: >> >> >> >> ... >> >> Waiting 3sec before mounting root device... >> >> pccard: PMCIA card inserted into slot 0 >> >> pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 >> >> pccard: PMCIA card inserted into slot 1 >> >> pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0 >> >> VFS: Cannot open root device "hda2" or unknown-block (0,0) >> >> Please append a correct "root=" boot option >> > >> > Card was not detected. Show 'pccardctl ident' output when card is >> > inserted. >> >> How do I do it without mounted root partition? > I guess, you need something like LiveRamdisk (i.e. use rootfs on ramdisk) > for booting without card and running linux on your PDA. > Unfortunately, seems that there's no ready LiveRamdisk images for hx2000 > (at least yet), so you probably need to prepare it yourself (you don't > need to make "real" LiveRamdisk bundled in one .exe-file - just to simulate > process with haret, kernel and image should be enough). Sadly I > don't have ready recipes for that (what command line give to kernel? how > to make proper startup.txt for haret? etc.) so you need to investigate > it yourself (or ask Paul Sokolovsky for help ;)
Thanks for the idea. Though I think I'll first try to boot from SD (tomorrow, when I get one) as it seems to be more straightforward. -- Sergei. _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
