On Tuesday 18 January 2011 02:15:37 Robin Paulson wrote: > > You can try hold POWER buttton when you are booting, qi will make kernel > > more verbose so you can see the actual error. > > very verbose. but i don't know what i'm looking for, so kind of stuck > > any suggestions? anything i can look for in a log (it's also moving > kind of fast)?
Interesting place is where rootfs is mounted. Most ofter this step fails and them messages stop with something like "unable to mount rootfs". > i tried that, and still not getting anything. also, doesn't the debian > install script handle all that? i recall trying this over a year ago > and it worked flawlessly I am not fan of big shell scripts. The problem is that you don't know what is happening. I have howto for manual install of qtmoko [1] or there is quite good wiki for manually installing debian. Regards Radek [1] https://github.com/radekp/qtmoko/blob/master/doc/txt/debian_rootfs_howto.txt [2] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Manual_Debian _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community