On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Ottavio <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 25 August 2011 21:49, lee jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > The second partition contains this > > ( > ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/armedslack-devtools/minirootfs/roots/slack-13.1-miniroot_14Jun10.tar.xz) > > Excuse the silly question, did you actually extract the image on the > partition or did just copy the archive (I said it was a silly question > but I had to ask!). > *thinks ... I partitioned the SD card into two partitions and formatted them; for the second partition I downloaded the slack-13.1 miniroot file and extracted its contents onto the second SD partiton. > > > boot.script looks like this > > setenv ramdisk uInitrd-2.6.31.14.20-efikamx; > > setenv kernel uImage-2.6.31.14.20-efikamx; > > setenv bootargs console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait rw; > > How is the second partition recognised on your smartbook (fdisk -l)? > Did you change "root=" to point to the right partition? > I'd also add "rootfs=ext3" . > root= seems to be ok pointing to the correct partition. fdisk -l shows the sd card as two partitions - /dev/mmcblk0p1 (1st sd partition) and /dev/mmcblk0p2 (2nd sd partition). In my boot.script file it says root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 .I also tried adding in rootfs=ext3 . > > Copy the original boot.script into boot.script.orig, then edit boot.script > and: > > cd /boot > ./script-prep boot.script boot.scr > > I did try that, Intrestingly if I put it all into /boot on the sd card the efika mx won't boot from the SD card at all. I have to put everything in root (of the SD card) to even get it to consider booting! Didn't succeed in booting from SD though, same problem as before. > Then, according to William Steuben's instructions: > "If you want the initial first time boot setup to work you need to cd > to the root filesystem of the sd card and type touch > var/lib/oem-config/run" > Not sure but the slack 13.1 miniroot dosen't seem to have this file. > > Do this only if you have a recovery image. I don't want to be > responsible for the life of your smartbook. > > And another thing: have you tried to boot from the installed Ubuntu, > mount the Slackware partition and then chroot into it? At least you > know if you can run that system with that kernel and those modules. > > That's an intresting idea! Just sticking with the slack 13.1 miniroot on the sd card (second partition) I tried doing sudo chroot on the second partiton (I used df -h to get the directory name where it is mounted in ubuntu) and it seemed to work (though I only tried basic bash-like commands like ls, cp etc). I also tried running pkgtool surprisingly this worked too and I was able to list all the installed packages (In the slack 13.1 miniroot) by choosing the "view" option. ljones
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