On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 09:05 +0000, Pierre Cassimans wrote: > Hi, > > i tried out the x86 howto, and i have to say it is a great document. But i > still have problems booting my device. > > The device boots, but once it have to init, it stays there right after > Freeing unused memory. The device doesn't generate a kernel panic, and i can > reboot it with ctrl-alt-delete, so i guess there was some king of init done.
So.. you mean you don't get a login prompt?? Funny. I can get a login-prompt using that howto > I tried putting init=linuxrc as kernel option in my grub conf but that gave > me the same status. kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Any clues? > > In the howto is a little error. Here are the 2 fact that are not correct i > think > > ROOT=/embedded_rootfs make modules_install > cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage > /embedded_rootfs/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.x > For me, the above command didn't work. I had to do the module copies on my own. > Another tip i can give is for grub. If you want to make a cf bootable with > grub and want to install grub on your cf from you develop station, you could > do it this way: > In grub shell: > > device (hd0) /dev/hdg /*where /dev/hdg is your cf card. This could be > /dev/sdb */ > root (hd0,0) > setup (hd0) Yeah.. Grub was a little hard to get into the MBR. I had to re-emerge grub a few times before I could Grub my HD. (i installed into vmware) and that also using grub and noto grub-install. > What also would be nice is to give some examples of booting the embedded > device, like working from ram or with initrd, cramfs, squashfs, root pivots, > using unionfs, overlays, etc. I know this is not easy, but it would help the > noobs (like me) alot. Currently I'm booting it from a simulated HD and yet to explore anything further than that. I've still not worked on it since I last reported success with it. Dropbear still has not worked due to no /dev/ptys (IIRC) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:19:44 up 4:06, 5 users, load average: 0.70, 0.92, 0.72 -- [email protected] mailing list
