>Johan Ugander, 2002-02-09 15:15 -0500 >>Oh, and by the way, my pc/104 pcmcia bridge is the tri-m aaeon pcm3115b >>http://www.tri-m.com/products/aaeon/pcm3115b.html >>http://www.tri-m.com/products/aaeon/manual/pcm3115b.pdf > > >After reading the 3115b manual pages 4-7 through 4-10, I believe >you're going to need the TrueFFS kernel patch from M-System [1] to >enable booting from the flash drive. The other option is the MTD >driver from the site [2] I mentioned before. > >[1] http://google.com/search?hl=en&q=trueffs+linux >[2] http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/
Hmm, the way I see things, those are all steps to get it booting. . . I already have it 'booting', that is to say I already have it reading from the pcmcia slot and getting as far as the package installation, at which point it fails. I can boot windows 98 off of a flash disk withou any problems what so ever. This isn't my hang-up...at least I'm pretty sure my problems lie elsewhere. Right now I believe my best allocation of efforts would be to try and figure out the 'pcinitrd' I mentioned, but I am unsure of how to integrate it into the leaf/lrp booting sequence. >I was unable to locate anything in the 3115b manual that mentions >CompactFlash (CF) or true IDE mode. I don't think CF devices are >supported as a boot medium. > >CF 1.4 specifications. >http://www.compactflash.org/cfspc1_4.pdf Section 6-1 - 6-8 discuss PCMCIA-ATA. Like I said above, I'm pretty much past this step. It's booting. No problems. I am now encountering a linux and lrp specific problem -- the one with pcinitrd and integrating the pcmcia boot initrd image. I read the documentation in the lrp dev. guide, which was quite useful in understand some of the working of the boot process (page 25). (bravo dave!). Now I'm wondering, since lrp seems to use initrd image technology already, is there any way to use the pcmcia image to do a double-pass? On another note, can I perform pcmcia-module inserts and start the pcmcia cardmgr from linuxrc? I read through the Loopbak-fs mini-howto (ibiblio is down right now, find it:) http://www.linuxpowered.com/archive/mini/Loopback-Root-FS.html But what it couldn't tell me is how this all applies to lrp/leaf. any takers? I really don't know enough about the boot process. If somebody could tell me or point me in the direction of a howto that discusses how to insert an initrd image on lrp (which I'm guessing can't be an all-to-uncommon way to add functionality), I would greatly appreciate it. thanks for the help Mike. Charles, you rock as well. Does anyone have a clue on this next step? /johan --- . . . .. ...________________S I G. name: Johan Ugander school: AEDT2002 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 4330752 . . . .. ..._____________________. _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
