On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 08:47:09PM +0100, Lukas Märdian wrote: > Hi, > > the SHR install guide already conforms with the new uboot setup metioned > by Nikolaus. > > You can just partition you SD card with up to 4 ext partitions and put > SHR on any of them. BUT your kernel needs to take the 'rootfs' bootarg > from the bootloader for this to work. There are some kernels wich have > 'rootfs=/dev/mmcblk0p2' hardcoded, e.g. old SHR kernels (fixed since 29 > Oct. [0]), NeilBrown's kernel (gta04_defconfig), ...
Small typo, 'root' bootarg, not rootfs. Cheers, > I hope this helps, > Lukas > > [0] > http://git.shr-project.org/git/?p=meta-smartphone.git;a=commit;h=50c4dbb7aece3d33b2a718d82a093700c066fe02 > > Am 13.11.2012 18:09, schrieb A.dre: > > Thanks for your quick response. I will try an entirely different > > partitioning scheme (omitting the FAT32 on p1). > > > > Still puzzled as why my SHR on p4 never booted. > > > > As for 'unofficial beagle board pages', I was redirected there by [7]: > > "The SD card needs to have a special format as described here." > > (Probably I misinterpreted something here(?).) > > > > Thanks again, André. > > > > [7] http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-rootfs/ > > > > On 11/13/2012 05:53 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > >> Hi, > >> with the new boot system [5] you can just format the heads/cylinders > >> as you like > >> and ignore [1] as long as your x-loader in NAND is intact. And even > >> then, I > >> suggest to follow the GTA04 documentation and not some inofficial beagle > >> board pages. > >> > >> The new boot system scans for the first kernel it finds in any of the > >> 4 ext2/3/4 partitions. > >> Therefore the first partition not even needs to be FAT and you can > >> have 4 ext partitions. > >> > >> Unfortunately I did not yet find the time to write a full documentation. > >> > >> Nikolaus > >> > >> [5] http://download.goldelico.com/gta04/20121030-GTA04-Production/ > >> > >> > >> Am 13.11.2012 um 17:43 schrieb A.dre: > >> > >>> Is it possible to prepare a SD-card for GTA-04 with multiple OS'es > >>> installed? (QtMoko and SHR in my case.) > >>> > >>> I tried and did not succeed. I followed (in chronological order) > >>> [1](sd-card), [2](QtMoko) and [3](SHR) with result [4] > >>> > >>> Different from [2] is that partition 4 is formatted as ext3 (instead > >>> of SWAP). This is the partition where I put SHR. > >>> As I understand from [3] SHR does not mandate specific partitions to > >>> be installed on. > >>> > >>> I tried QtMoko on partition 2 and SHR on p4. I never got SHR to boot. > >>> (QtMoko did boot.) > >>> I tried SHR on partition 2 and another SHR on p4. I never got SHR to > >>> boot from p4. > >>> (SHR from p2 booted although I selected p4 during boot!) > >>> > >>> Any ideas? > >>> Should the partition with /boot reside below 2GB? > >>> Is it mandatory to put QtMoko/rootfs on partition 2? > >>> > >>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions, > >>> André > >>> > >>> (As I'm writing this email I see the number heads is 246 instead of > >>> the 255 as in mentioned in [1]. I will give it another try.) > >>> > >>> [1] http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/LinuxBootDiskFormat > >>> [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtmoko/files/GTA04/ > >>> [3] http://shr-project.org/trac/wiki/Devices/GTA04/InstallGuide > >>> [4]$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb > >>> Disk /dev/sdb: 7969 MB, 7969177600 bytes > >>> 246 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1020 cylinders, total 15564800 sectors > >>> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > >>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > >>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > >>> Disk identifier: 0x00000000 > >>> > >>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > >>> /dev/sdb1 * 63 144584 72261 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > >>> /dev/sdb2 144585 5284655 2570035+ 83 Linux > >>> /dev/sdb3 5284656 10424726 2570035+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > >>> /dev/sdb4 10424727 15564797 2570035+ 83 Linux > >>> $ > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Openmoko community mailing list > >>> community@lists.openmoko.org > >>> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > community@lists.openmoko.org > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com
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