Thanks Henry, and as an update for this bug, turns out the problem was that the SD card was not all the way in; there's nothing wrong with the current kernal image. Thanks,
Yifan On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Henry Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yifan, > > This sounds like the missing mmc drivers that was fixed in the > latest kernel release. You can update your kernel to the newest > one found here: > > https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/LatestVersions > > using the instructions here: > > https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/ROACH_kernel_uboot_update > > I can help you with that if you'd like. > > Dave/Alec: As an aside, has Mo's setup been updated with the > newest kernel you compiled in August? Yifan's board was done in > late June, so it would have had the May release of the kernel. > > Thanks, > Henry > > On 9/9/2011 4:24 PM, Yifan Sun wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am a new ROACH user and I am having some difficulty setting things >> up. Currently, I'm trying to set up netboot so I can ssh bof files to >> the board, but somehow in the process of things I seem to have messed >> up the boot partitions. So now I get an error every time I boot using >> mmcboot, usbboot, basically in any way other than soloboot: >> >> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on >> unknown-block(179,1) >> >> Rebooting in 180 seconds.. >> >> Is there a way to recover the original settings? I've tried rebooting, >> but otherwise I'm not sure how to fix this bug. Should I just remount >> the image somehow onto a USB drive? Any advice would be appreciated. >> >> I am new to this mailing list so if there is a more appropriate place >> to direct these questions please let me know, >> >> Thanks, >> >> Yifan >> >
