On Fri 06 Oct, Wookey wrote:
[partly aswering his own post]
> My assabet board is refusing to start up properly. It was working OK, then
> it got unreliable, now it seems permanently broken.
OK I've fixed this by re-flashing the flash -obviously it had become corrupt.
> Also one other (maybe dumb) question:
> I can't get a compact flash mounted. I am using a kernel compiled using the
> 'make config-assabet' config (and emdebian toolchain). If I plug a CF in
> then cat /proc/<something>/01 (I've forgotten the details and now it's bust
> I can't check :-| ) shows the card ready and detected when plugged in, and
> not when it isn't, so that's OK, but if I try and 'mount /dev/hda1 /mnt' I
> get 'wrong major or minor device number'. Same for hdb1 or hda or hdb. The
> major/minor numbers are what I would expect. I can't find any docs about
> how this is supposed to work and this seems like the right rune (it works
> OK on Linux on the Psion5). Am I missing something? What does this error
> really mean? I was about to try it on the neponset intead/aswell when it
> died as above so now I'm stuck.
But I could still do with a clue here about which bits of kernel support are
required for CF and what runes/hardware I should expect to work.
Wookey
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