Morgan Read wrote:
> Thanks Paul and Harmon
>
> I got a straight rs232 serial cable some time back, only to find I've no
> longer got any machines with an rs232 serial port...
>
Oh, yeah, that's right, I forgot. Well, you *could* get a pci-serial
card. 8-)
> I strongly suspect I stuffed up something in formatting/set-up of my CF
> card as I seem to have LAB up and running an apparently not finding
> anything to boot...
>
> One thing I've wondered is, does the CF card need a MBR written to it?
No
> Or, is that taken care of by the inclusion of this:
>
> copy fs:/mnt/boot/zImage fs:/zImage
> umount /mnt
> armboot fs:/zImage "root=/dev/hda1 rootdelay=5"
>
That is the actual statement in the /boot/labrun file, right? And the
CF card is formatted to ext2, then the
Angstrom-minimalist-gpe-image-glibc-ipk-2007.12-h2200.rootfs.tar.gz
untarred onto it, and the above file copied or written into the /boot
dir on that card?
That sure should work -- does on my h2200. Or I do it on a SD card,
both seem to work equally well.
So, maybe you should try redoing the LAB, making sure it actually
finished installing before you rest. Did if fail the checksum? Mine did,
but it still worked. But maybe you should try that again.
But as anxious as I was to put familiar (and then angstrom) on my
h2200, I waited until I had a serial cable, since I really hate doing
stuff like that without being able to see what is actually happening.
Still and all -- from my little experiment using minicom with the usb
cradle the other day, I don't know why that won't work.
> at /boot/labrun
> ?
> >
--
Harmon Seaver
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