Hi Martin, What would it take to move the next XS Server release to either F10 or F11 as F9 will be EOL as soon as F11 comes out in a month or so (one month after F11 is out F9 will be EOL).
Peter On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Martin Langhoff <[email protected]> wrote: > On the mission of getting a XS image running on the XO, I have abused > imagecreator (part of livecdtools) to create an ext3 image based on > the XS ISO we distribute. > > Now I am trying to make the image boot on the XO, and it is not > working. It fails in trying to mount (and then switchroot to) > /dev/root. I suspect that it's the initrd mount process that is > failing there, but I am a bit at a loss on where to focus my debugging > next. OFW appears to read the initrd alright, and yet... > > - The whole image is i686 (while trying to convince imagecreator to > set the arch to i586) so that may be a source of problems. > > - The resulting ext3 image is using vanilla F9 kernel > 2.6.27.19-78.2.30.fc9.686 -- no olpc-specific kernels here. From what > I understand, all the fixes applied to F10 initrds have also been > applied to recent F9 kernels. > > - I've created vmlinuz / initrd symlinks to make things easier -- at > least during debugging. Does anything in the kernel rpm %post set > those up or update them if they're found? Or update olpc.fth? Either > way, everytime a new kernel is installed I need to update > *something*... > > - I have also set /etc/fstab to mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 as / > > - My olpc.fth is built thus: > cat > /boot/olpc.fth << EOF > \ Boot script > " ro root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootfstype=ext3 rootdelay=5 > console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 fbcon=font:SUN12x22" to boot-file > " sd:\boot\initrd" to ramdisk > " sd:\boot\vmlinuz" to boot-device > unfreeze > boot > > EOF > > - Funny enough, unfreeze doesn't seem to work, and the boot fails > while consistently showing a pretty screen. > > Hints welcome... > > cheers, > > > > m > -- > [email protected] > [email protected] -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-olpc-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-olpc-list > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
