On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 09:05:29PM +0200, Joerg Lippmann wrote: > Hi! > > Am Dienstag 22 Juli 2008 schrieb Dave Clark: > > > Why not put Qtopia on the SD card, and 2007.2 in the main memory? It's > > fairly easy to dual-boot... > > I tried that for the last 2 hours, using the wiki howto > (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qtopia_on_FreeRunner). It went quite smoothly. > up to the point where the qtopia-kernel panics when he is not able to mount > the root-Filesystem. I tried this with ext2 and ext3, same error: > > [...] > VFS: Cannot open root device "mmcblk0p2" or unknown-block(179,2) > [...] > > Any idea how to fix that would be great!
I think the kernel delivered with Qtopia doesn't have ext2 support built in (only as a module, which is not available without rootfs), and it doesn't work with ext3 either because U-Boot passes "rootfstype=ext2" to the kernel as a commandline option. You can try a recent stable kernel (from Openmoko), I think a few days ago a patch was checked in that enables ext2 support. So a recent stable kernel should be able to boot from an ext2 partition. Alternatively, you can try to persuade U-Boot to tell the kernel to use ext3. I described how I did that here (didn't have time to put it in the wiki yet... and I don't know if it's relevant any more, as booting from ext2 hopefully works now): http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-July/021524.html http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-July/021881.html HTH, Thomas B. _______________________________________________ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support