i've experience the same problem on my yopy with the cf, both with flash and
with my
pcmcia adapter device. it doesn't appear to flash specific, it happens with
nics and 16650 cards.
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric BENARD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: yopy-general <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Yopy-general] boot process: need help
> Hi,
>
> I've got quite the same failure when I put a 64MB compact flash card in
the
> YopY. Everything works fine until I reboot ... then it crashs and I have
to
> flash the fsm from the begining ... Not very reliable ... I don't have any
> probleme when not using CF.
> Can people at GMate confirm this ? Could this be a power consumption
problem
> on the CF ?
>
> Did you manage to get 2.4.x kernel running on the yopy ? If so can you
please
> send me the patch to apply to the kernel ? or tell me where I can find it
plz
> ?
>
> thank you
> eric
>
> On Friday 30 March 2001 03:41, you wrote:
> > hi!
> >
> > there is something about the boot process i don't understand.
> > the problem is as follows:
> >
> > for some special application i want to build a system with these
> > attributes:
> >
> > - root file system on /dev/fsma
> > - swap partition on /dev/hda2 (ibm microdrive)
> > - /usr on /dev/hda3
> > - /var on /dev/hda5
> > - /home on /dev/hda6
> >
> > so i compiled the kernel to directly include pcmcia/IDE support,
> > built a rootfilesystem with a matching fstab and prepared the partitions
on
> > the microdrive. what happens is that the system freezes on boot.
> > next step: i prepared another root filesystem, this time with empty /usr
> > directory to simulate root-only mounting with no /usr partition
available.
> > this normally should lead to a semi-useful core system. result:
> > the system shows no reaction after initial boot prompt.
> >
> > there is no problem in mounting the microdrive partitions later.
> >
> > i don't know exactly if there is a method to access the boot log on
> > these trial runs, but untilö now i got no clue what is going wrong.
> >
> > am i missing something essential here or do the init scripts somehow
depend
> > on the /usr /var or /home to be available before something is mounted?
> >
> > the point is that i went back from kernel 2.4.1 because starting with a
> > root partition on /dev/hda1 did not work. (to avoid mixing up with
> > complications from jffs development).
> > now i have come to the conclusion that mounting microdrive
> > partitions does not work at all at boot time, and i don't know why.
> > i suspect there is a problem with the init scripts, but i can't get
> > to the point.
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John Dorsey wrote:
> On Thursday, April 19, 2001, at 03:32 PM, Danny Maupin wrote:
>
> > When the kernel boots, it does not always recognize the card and will
> > not
> > load the drivers.
>
> Does it fail to _detect_ the card, or does it simply not _recognize_
> it? (`cardctl status` and `cardctl ident` should help to answer this
> question.)
>
> > If I physically eject and re-insert the card all is well.
>
> Does `cardctl insert` accomplish the same result?
>
> (The question I really mean to ask is, "is this a botched card detect
> initialization/interrupt problem, or an attribute memory access
> problem?")
>
> > I have also had a problem where it will recognize the card and load the
> > drivers, but all the packets are errored.
>
> (Please forgive me for asking such dull questions, but recently there
> have been reports of PCMCIA strangeness on the iPAQ that I am utterly
> unable to reproduce on any of the four different SA-1110 designs
> available to me. I'm just trying to gather information.)
>
> Do you trust your PCMCIA (hardware) implementation? (i.e., does it work
> flawlessly using some other software environment?)
>
> If your PCMCIA implementation was derived from Assabet or Neponset, have
> you seen the post on this mailing list (or maybe it was l-a-k) regarding
> the excessive pullup resistance on some of the signals from those
> designs?
>
> Have you ever attempted to run some earlier Linux kernel version (than
> 2.4.2) on this hardware?
>
> (Your Socket card is the one which was used to develop the post-Itsy
> Card Services port; it _will_ work. We'll get you sorted. =)
>
> -jd
>
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