On my hx4700, the /boot/zImage was a symlink to nowhere.

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 20:39 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> On 04-02-09 19:00, Bernd Schemmer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > cool! Very nice and the new S and R options are very useful.
> >
> > But unfortunately the new kexecboot still does not find Angstrom/OPIE
> > (2007.12) on the internal RAM of my CL760. It detects the partitions on
> > the SD card (also Angstrom/OPIE 2007.12, Angstrom 2007.12 with X, and
> > Ubuntu) and I can boot them but it does not detect the OS on the
> > internal RAM ...
> 
> I suspect the 2007.12 installs lack a /boot/zImage.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Koen
> 
> 
> >
> > After booting from SD card there are some messages in the dmesg output
> > regarding erase blocks but I'm sure if this has something todo with the
> > problem:
> >
> > <5>Using static partision definition
> > <5>Creating 1 MTD partitions on "sharpsl-flash":
> > <5>0x00120000-0x007f0000 : "Boot PROM Filesystem"
> > <6>NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0x79 (Samsung NAND
> > 128MiB 3,3V 8-bit)
> > <6>Scanning device for bad blocks
> > <4>Bad eraseblock 32 at 0x00080000
> > <4>Bad eraseblock 2232 at 0x022e0000
> > <4>Bad eraseblock 3784 at 0x03b20000
> > <4>Bad eraseblock 7347 at 0x072cc000
> > <5>Creating 3 MTD partitions on "sharpsl-nand":
> > <5>0x00000000-0x00700000 : "System Area"
> > <5>0x00700000-0x03c00000 : "Root Filesystem"
> > <5>0x03c00000-0x08000000 : "Home Filesystem"
> > <6>pxa2xx_udc: version 30-June-2007
> >
> > Is there anything I can do to solve or debug the error?
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Bernd
> >
> >
> >
> > Koen Kooi wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> There are kexecboot kernels available for various machine at:
> >>
> >> http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/kexecboot/
> >>
> >> Flash (or boot) the kernels as a regular kernel and on the next boot
> >> you should be greeted with a boot selection screen. It looks for
> >> /boot/zImage file to mark something as bootable.
> >>
> >> Kexecboot is very usefull if you are using
> >> http://amethyst.openembedded.net/~koen/narcissus/ to make images for
> >> CF/SD cards.
> >>
> >> regards,
> >>
> >> Koen
> >>
> >>
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