hello everybody, my struggle to get my hx4700 in shape still goes on..
now I'd want to have its root filesystem on an SD card, while booting from SDG bootloader, for two reasons: - most images are quite bigger that what the internal NAND could store - while I'm experimenting, I'm reflashing the image over and over, and it's a long, boring task; moreover, I'd really want to spare some write cycles on the NAND, while an external SD card is expendable to do achieve that, I "hex-patched" the sdg bootloader so that it assumes the root filesystem on /dev/mmcblk0p1 (ext2 formatted SD) instead of /dev/mtdxxxx (can't remember the name, it's not important now). This works quite well, but I get a kernel panic when it does try to mount the root filesystem and it doesn't find it. I already tried adding the "rootwait" parameter to kernel, only to have a nice message about waiting the root device to show up, which never happens. I compiled everything I think is needed statically, which includes "MMC block device driver" and "Toshiba Mobile IO controller (TMIO)" (if helpful, I can send the kernel .config I'm using, I'm not sending it now as I'm not sure it's ok with the mailing list policy). I can see in logs: mmc0: mmc_try_rescan_freq: trying to init card at 400000 Hz mmc0 at 0xc4834800 irq 162 but it doesn't seem to "see" the partitions. Any hint? Anyone already did something similar? Is it even possible to do what I'm trying to do? thank you very much everybody Enrico _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
