Hello list! I want to clearify some things regarding familiar on 4700 in stress situations, as a have once again managed kernel to panic ;) I use latest familiar distro, installed into rom, and sdg bootloader version 1.2.4.
What i have done: I think a had a reset at inappropriate time (state was like ipkg installing and vim /etc/something through ssh, and also logged in normally). After a reset there was kernel panic, and messages like filesystem was corrupt). This is preamble ;) What i want: Something fully loaded with fsck and friends, that can be dd'ed to card, inserted into ipaq and booted from. Questions: 1. Boot parameters on 4700 are in bootldr.rom. To add logging to console (as on big boxes), i had to hexedit bootldr.rom, change linuxargs there (to see them -- strings bootldr.file | grep "console="), preserving length, and reflash bootloader, because this parameters are hardcoded there (console=/dev/ttyS0, in my case). Is there any way to get this out to some file like /boot/params? I deleted bootparams file on 4700 (pkg name gpe-boot iirc), it's really useless. How to make it useful? To experiment with custom kernels, for instance, without reflashing the whole thing.. 2. About this recovery thing and booting from card -- there is excelent article, http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/BootingLinuxFromCF, but i havent succedeed. probably because of (1) bootldr problem. Is There any other resources i missed? 3. Marcus, regarding to your Ramdisk Rescue, i still missing something about card booting without wince installed. i just miss some step and cant get this as a whole. Lets assume we have absolutely clean ipaq, without even bootloader. My thinking was: 1. i need to flash bootloader that support booting from cf 2. i need to prepare cf (fat with boot and zimage + ext2 with initrd, for example) 3. i then could boot. can RR be used in 2nd step? And what files i need? 4. Most general question: If there is _no_ way now to boot 4700 from card to rescue a corrupt system, is there any ways to recover? (in home environment, of cource ;) 5. Minor notice: home.jffs2 from http://sdgsystems.com/pub/ipaq/hx4700/starterkit/20060615-gpe/ refused to flash on my ipaq with "can't load image" reason 6. I also have famous "download failed, reflash failed" messages when try to update bootloader, but bootloader flashes nevertheless ;) Though i havent changed more, than string values for linuxargs, it works. I promise i'll write "emergency rescue howto" for newbies like me, if you help me figure this out ;) regards, if _______________________________________________ Hx4700-port mailing list [email protected] https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/hx4700-port
