Hi Simon I used the installer's ability to load modules at startup to get the DOC to work (after doing it a couple of times by hand to get it to work ;-)
The kernel that Bering ships with has all the right modules available (go to the Bering download page, which links to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13751 and get Bering_1.0-rc3_modules_2.4.18.tar.gz) I was trying to hack the installer to be able to install on the DOC so that I could distribute the result, but it seems the installer wants to load packages and modules from a mounted device, and install the system on a ramdisk, while I want to load packages and modules from a directory and install on a mounted device and make the device bootable. So it seems like just making a custom install like yu did would be a lot less trouble. Cheers! Conrad On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 02:05, Simon Blake wrote: > Hi Conrad > > What kernel are you booting off? As far as I know, the stock bering > kernel doesn't have DOC support built in, so even though you have the > device files, you won't be able to access ntfla1 unless you build your > own kernel with DOC support.. > > When I last setup a DOC based system, I booted it off an IDE drive > running DOS, formatted the DOC with a FAT filesystem (in fact installed > DOS), copied all the Bering stuff over, along with a customer kernel > with DOC support, ran syslinux on the DOC as boot loader. Seemed to > work fine. > > Cheers > Si > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:37:16AM -0700, Conrad Steenberg said: > > Hi Jacques > > > > Thanks for your reply. I think my question was a little unclear, though: > > > > Making the devices works fine, whether by hand or using root.dev.mk. > > What has me stumped is formatting the partition (using either mke2fs of > > mkfs.minix from busybox) which gives me the errors described below. > > > > The Netier doesn't have a hard drive, so it has to be booted using > > PXE/dhcp/tftp until I can get the DOC formatted. And I'd very much like > > to keep it HD-less since it is blissfully quiet :-) > > > > Cheers! > > > > Conrad > > > > On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 01:27, Jacques Nilo wrote: > > > > I'm new to LEAF and embedded devices, so please bear > > > with me :-) > > > > > > > > I trying to create a filesystem on a 72M DOC2000 > > > (Netier XL1000), and > > > > get up to creating a partition (/dev/nftla1). This is > > > with Bering-rc3. > > > > > > > > When I try mke2fs /dev/nftla1, the following gets > > > reported: > > > > > > > > NFTL_writeblock(): Cannot find block to write to > > > > end_request; I/O error, dev 5d:01 (unknown) sector XXXXX > > > > Argh! No free blocks found LastFreeEUN = 4603, FirstEUN > > > = 3 > > > > No Virtual Unit Chains available for folding. Failing > > > request > > > > > > > > This gets repeated lots of times with different values > > > for XXXXX. > > > > > > > > (I _think_ that the utility nftl_format might be able > > > to free the blocks > > > > on the DOC, but I don't know where to get one that's > > > been compiled for > > > > Bering.) > > > > > > > > Does anybody have an idea why the error mesages happen, > > > and maybe what > > > > to do about it? Or better yet, have copies of the nftl > > > utilities > > > > compiled with the right libc(+kernel?) to work with > > > Bering? > > > >From Bering rc3 Changelog: > > > root.dev.mk updated to create mtd, nftla1->4, lp0, lp1 > > > devices for DoC and parallel printer support > > > > > > The relevant devices are created automatically at boot > > > time (check the /dev directory). > > > > > > Jacques > > > -------------- > > > Profitez de l'offre exceptionnelle Tiscali ! > > > "Internet Gratuit le Jour" > > > Cliquez ici, http://register.tiscali.fr/forfaits_ls/ > > > Offre soumise � conditions. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leaf-devel mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel > > -- > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leaf-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel -- *-----------------------------------------* | Conrad Steenberg | | Caltech, Mail Code 356-48 | | Pasadena, CA, 91125 | | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Tel: (626) 395-8758 | *-----------------------------------------* ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code1 _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
