On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Morgan Gangwere <mgangw...@cnm.edu> wrote:
> hi folks, > > ive been trying to get my new akita to boot from the NAND for some time > through the kexecboot posted on theite but to no avail. heres what ive tried > so far... > > - extracting the old initrds and adding the requisite kernel-cmdline and > friends [kexecboot flails and cant find it] > - getting a jffs2 frm narcissus and flashing that as initrd.bin w/ > kexecboot as zImage [again kexecboot wont see it...] > - running the whole show from an sd card [gets somewhere but fails along > the way] > - making my own initrd.bin with mjfs.jffs2 -r rootfs/ -o initrd.bin > > what magic am i missing here? > Just to rule out all doubts, please do restore an original Sharp image as prerequisite (original partitioning). First two methods are ok, not error-prone.You seem to know what you are doing, maybe one thing: kexecboot looks for /boot/boot.cfg and not for kernel-cmdline anymore. We test on other clamshells regularly. FWIW akita has just a different eraseblock size, nothing more. Regards Andrea > > -- morgan gangwere > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > > _______________________________________________ > Angstrom-distro-users mailing list > Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users > _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
