On Thursday 25 September 2008, Neil Jerram wrote: > 2008/9/24 Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/9/24 Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> You can get this excitement if your SD card was mounted with "nodev" at > >> unpack as well, usually that is complaining about no /dev/pts/* or other > >> valid /dev bits needed. > > > > Thanks. I checked that at the time, though (because the Wiki covers > > it), and it didn't have nodev. > > > > I'll try Bill's -p, and report back. > > It didn't help. As just noted in another message, -p is on by default for > root. > > After a few more experiments, I noticed that in the FDOM > rootfs.tar.gz, all files have owner and group "mutrox". So in fact -p > is wrong anyway, and one should use -o, so that the unpacked files are > owned by root. > > That said, -o still didn't solve my problem. > > > (Another factor that may be relevant is that I did the unpacking on > > the FR, from within Qtopia - which means that I was using the Busybox > > implementation of tar. Perhaps I also need to make sure that I'm > > using a proper tar?) > > I have been using full GNU tar today. No difference, apparently. > > I'm pretty much giving up... If anyone else manages to install FDOM > on SD, and boot from it, please let us know know!
I did it at the end of last week. Don't remember exactly what I did but it didn't cause me any problems. I'm using the kernel from /boot on the SD. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
