Lex, This is the answer to your two e-mails.
The kernel I am using is effectively a kexecboot one. Are they deprecated? I also think that kexecboot kernels have an initramfs bundled with them. I will try with Narcissus' images. zImage-kexecboot-2.6.26-r12-splitz.bin seems to be a newer kernel, compared to 2.6.21. I do not remember at all where I found it (it was ~2 A.M. some weeks ago): may be on a FTP. I am going to try to make all these things work, but I think that the main problem of all these things is that there is no clear (i.e. coming from the developers) explanation about what should be done, what should be tried, and what should be avoided. We are all guessing, and, as we are motivated, this often succeeds, but at the price of time, and we all know that time is precious. Lucky me that you have Hx4700 too! I think that Angström is a promising distro, and I would like to develop a quick starting guide for it, but I need time (and help) to do this. (This is not for now.) Everybody calls me by my last name on the Internet, as I had the bad idea to put my last name first, and the first name in second place. I thought it was conventionally like this (as, for me, *the* last name tells more who you are [to others] than *a* first name), but it is actually the contrary, at least in Europe (I am in Belgium). It is too late, as you can see on Google: type ``Luca Merciadri'' and it will result in everything but ``Luca Merciadri''! (Thus, there is no problem about this: everything is my fault!) Thanks Lex. I will soon post a message about my different attempts. -----Message d'origine----- De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] De la part de Lex Landa Envoyé : dimanche 1 novembre 2009 12:58 À : [email protected] Objet : Re: [Angstrom-distro-users] No WiFi on Angström Live Hi Merciadri, Answering your first email - Merciadri Luca wrote: > I tried > > $ python make-bootbundle.py -o "outfile.exe" "haret-0.5.2.exe" > "zImage-kexecboot-2.6.26-r12-splitz.bin" > "initramfs-bootmenu-image-hx4700.cpio.gz" "startup.txt.bootimage" > > It results in a "outfile.exe" but my Hx4700 seems not to like it at all: > > --- > HaRET boot > Shutting down hardware > Turning off MMU... > In preloader > PSR=600000df > Tags relocated > Kernel relocated > Initrd relocated > Jumping to Kernel... > --- > and does not anything of more. I think that the first problem is due to the kernel that you're using, which is a kexecboot kernel. Try one of the kernels from the Narcissus images' /boot directory, instead. I'm not sure how the kexecboot kernels work - I think that they have an initramfs bundled with them, somehow. I have not been using kexecboot with my tests at all, because it confuses things a little. In the test above, my 'initramfs-bootmenu-image-hx4700.cpio.gz' system is for the 2.6.21 kernel. > You can see that I tried with the 2.6.26-r12 image, which was really > difficult to find on the Internet. I had however modified the > startup.txt.bootimage consequently (to adopt the new kernel). > > I also tried with 2.6.21, but it fails too: it begins booting, then writes > No bootable devices found. > Insert bootable device! > R: Reboot S: Rescan devices > > Why? It's looking for a bootable system on recognised media. This is another one of my guesses: I think that it looks for ext2 filesystems on all attached cards. In this case, you want it to boot from the initramfs in the loader, and you don't need kexecboot at all. A regular kernel will do, with the 'root=/dev/ram0' command line parameter. G'day, Lex _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
