2009/4/14 Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <r...@sygehus.dk>: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:33:52PM +1200, Robin Paulson wrote: > >> now, when i try to start it, either by pressing the power button >> alone, or going through the nand menu, i get an error about 'wrong >> format' of a partition. i'm assuming this is to do with the fat/ext >> issue for the kernel, but as i followed the instructions to use an ext >> partition, i'm not sure what's wrong. it feels like i'm missing >> something silly - i got this working last year > > Make sure the kernel is on a partition completely below 4 GB or use a > U-Boot built with this patch: > https://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2009-March/009573.html
agh, that's why. it was on an 8gb partition..... i must have missed that in the debian documentation/om wiki > FWIW, even with the above patch, I'm having no success getting U-Boot to > read a kernel from a 1 GB partition starting at 6 GB. I'm trying to debug > it, though. using qi now, but not tried to boot debian yet. cheers rask _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community