On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 04:16 -0500, Richard Smith wrote: > On 8/22/06, Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > By default the progress bar moves until its end, when a blank screen > > welcomes the user for undetermined amount of time (being picky, > > nevermind :)). Is that supposed to happen? > > Doesn't happen for me. > > > With latest buildrom (cs553x_nand enabled) I'm able to enter the shell > > (X icon), cd to /bin/, execute ./boot-nand and watch it go! > > I had a much more frustrating experience. But I _almost_ have a > completely working nand boot. I got far enough that I'm satisified > that it can mount the NAND and boot a kernel. > > linuxbios_rev_a_20060823-1 is tagged. Mitch, binary coming your way..... > > I'll spare rest of the 6 hour gory details but here's the summary. > > - Redhat build ( I used 75) needs 'mknod /dev/mdt0 c 90 0' for flash to work > > - Buildrom dependency info for olpcflash.c doesn't work right. > > to reproduce do a touch olpcflash.c in the ./packages/olpcflash dir. > > make SURE your olpcflash version is >= 0.2.1. use 'olpcflash -h' to > see the verision. > > - I'm stupid and forgot to rebuild my kernel. > > - I can't seem to produce a jffs2 image that will boot without errors. > The closest I got was a stream of stuff about the my sums being > messed up. I did however boot the kernel off of NAND so it wasn't > totally broken.
Are you using sumtool to convert the image to a JFFS2+summary image? (which mounts in 1/10th the time that a normal JFFS2 image does). If not, you should be. http://mailman.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2006-August/001346.html http://mailman.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2006-August/001349.html Dan > - bootmenu needs the _keypad_ numbers pressed to pop up the boot screen. > > If you muck up your nand flash enough where the system will mount it > but not boot all the way then your only option (other than hacking > linuxrc and reflashing) is to use bootmenu to boot USB first. Thats > when its really handy to know to use the _keypad_ keys rather than the > '1234' keys above 'qwerty'. As simple as that seems this was very > non-obvious to me until I started looking at the source. > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
