Another thing i have noticed: While Using Narcissius, with the options
stable, task-base, udev, tar.gz, no manifest, no sdk, x11 with gnome.
And building for the hx4700 the tasks: angstrom-task-gnome, shadow,
bash-sh all fail with a red X. The file is still produced, however.
Nic


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Nic Fellows <n...@nicshouse.co.uk> wrote:
> OK thanks, ill get back in touch as soon as i have some info from the
> serial cable!
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Yury Bushmelev <jay4m...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2011/5/25 Nic Fellows <n...@nicshouse.co.uk>:
>>> Hi Yury, i don't have a serial console cable, but i did order one
>>> yesterday. I will get the output and make sure you get a copy as soon
>>> as it arrives! Can you tell me what advantage i would get using
>>> kexecboot over a standard kernel image? Thanks, Nic
>>
>> I'm not experienced with hx4700 so I can't say anything about any advantage..
>> With kexecboot you can boot from any media which may be connected to
>> your hx4700 and supported by kernel.
>> Check http://kexecboot.org for details.
>>
>> User alexxy on #kexecboot have hx4700. I'll ask him about his experience.
>>
>>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Yury Bushmelev <jay4m...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 2011/5/25 Nic Fellows <n...@nicshouse.co.uk>:
>>>>
>>>>> On another tangent, Felipe Navarrete suggests here:
>>>>> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/angstrom-distro-users/2010-August/003356.html
>>>>> to use the zImage-kexecboot-2.6.21-hh20-r12-hx4700.bin bootloader, so
>>>>> i downloaded it, flashed it, the bootloader started up and asked me to
>>>>> select which partition to boot (only one option /dev/mtdblock2) by
>>>>> pressing OK/Enter. I have tried every key on the hx4700 and none of
>>>>> them seem to do anything to make a selection. Not sure if this is
>>>>> worth pursuing at all.
>>>>
>>>> I'm kexecboot developer.
>>>>
>>>> Seems something is wrong with event devices or kernel keymap. Have you
>>>> serial console cable?
>>>> You may join #kexecboot channel on freenode to talk closer.
>>
>> --
>> Yury Bushmelev
>>
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