Yes, you need to extract all the /dev/ mount nodes 'n things. Check the /dev/ directory and compare it to a good usbstick. Are they the same?
I'd suggest untarring as root directly to the flash disk. I think the tarball extracts to a subdirectory called usbstick (or somesuch). So if you mount your usbstick in /mnt/usbstick, you can do something like this... cd /mnt sudo tar -xzf ~/my_roach_root_filesystem.tar.gz and it'll go straight onto the stick without having to worry about cp commands, symlinks and the like. Jason On 27 Oct 2010, at 02:43, Mark Wagner wrote: > Hi Laura, > > If I remember correctly, the other thing that can cause this is not opening > up the tarball > as root. Are you doing this? > > Mark > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Laura Spitler <[email protected]> > wrote: > 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 > >> > >> > >> > > > > >
