Hi everyone, I know this thread is old, but I'm running into the same problem. I'm trying to boot my ROACH using a USB stick formatted with one partion as ext2. I copied the latest filesystem (2010_03_24) (sudo cp -a ) onto the drive making sure the normal root directories are in the "root" of the usb stick. The /dev/ directories are there.
It stalls on the same error as for Mark: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k init Warning: unable to open an initial console. Any ideas? Laura On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Mark Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks guys, I tried that and it seems to work now. > Mark > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> cp -rp might not be enough -- the docs are vague on what it does to >> symlinks. cp -a may be a better bet. >> Also, you can convert ext2 to ext3 directly using tune2fs -j. >> >> --Andy >> >> >> On Feb 1, 2010, at 2:40 AM, Mark Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I updated my usb stick to the filesystem: >> >> http://casper.berkeley.edu/svn/trunk/roach/sw/binaries/filesystem/filesystem_etch_2009-11-30.tar.bz >> when I 'run usbboot' I get to: >> sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 15794175 512-byte hardware sectors (8087 MB) >> sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off >> sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through >> sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 15794175 512-byte hardware sectors (8087 MB) >> sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off >> sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through >> sda: sda1 >> sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk >> EXT2-fs warning (device sda1): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem >> as ext2 >> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. >> Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k init >> Warning: unable to open an initial console. >> warning: `ntpd' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) >> and then the boot process freezes. I've repartitioned and rebuilt the >> filesystem as ext3 and then simply copied (cp -rp) over the files as i've >> done on other working usb sticks. Any suggestions? >> Thanks, >> Mark >> >> >> > >
