On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Morgan Gangwere <mgangw...@cnm.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:22:39AM +0200, Andrea Adami wrote: > > 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). > > Way ahead of you there. I flashed Cacko on it just to make sure it was all > OK. > It was running pdaXrom when I got it. The original owner assured me that he > had not dinked with the partitioning. > > So... Original partitioning (50/50 mix / and /home) is still all there. > The fact you used Cacko and or pdaxrom does not exclude you have custom partitioning. In fact, I always repartitioned using those. > > > > 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. > > See the "And Friends" -- I included boot.cfg and kernel-cmdline just > because I'm too used > to dealing with the Collie still. > > Painful sidenote: the "Just Busybox" build is really *JUST* BusyBox -- no > kernel at all. > This bummed me heavily when I was unable to find /boot/boot.cfg and such. > > Second Painful Sidenote: Narcissus won't generate a JFFS2 image anymore. Or > an ext2. > > > We test on other clamshells regularly. FWIW akita has just a different > > eraseblock size, nothing more. > > I figured as much :) > > I'm happily "Running" on the old 2007.12 release on NAND -- but its just so > painful to > not have an up-to-date version of GPE or Opie. > > My dmesg output shows a lot of "Bad Eraseblock Size" notes -- I'd assume > (naiively) that this > is benign? > > I don't know...long ago I've heard about some akita having 0x04000 erasesize like other clamshells. Would be rare. Please post the output of cat proc/mtd. We'd expect dev: size erasesize name mtd0: 006b0000 00020000 "Filesystem" mtd1: 00700000 00020000 "smf" mtd2: 003a0000 00020000 "root" mtd3: 003f0000 00020000 "home" You can also try using console for flashing: Kernel: nandlogical /dev/mtd1 WRITE 0x0E0000 0x140000 zImage.bin Rootfs: flash_eraseall -j /dev/mtd2 nandwrite /dev/mtd2 rootfsA.jffs2 Optionally: flash_eraseall -j /dev/mtd3 nandwrite /dev/mtd3 rootfsB.jffs2 (using updater.sh rootfsA -> initrd.bin rootfsB -> home.bin) Regards Andrea > I've tried running from Altboot on the SD card and I get a Kernel Not > Syncing panic > so I've just been Living With What I Have. > > -- 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
