On 8/16/06, Clint Thomas <cthomas at soneticom.com> wrote: > > > Hey, > > Using the powerpc development tree of Linux 2.4, I am trying to boot my > system from CompactFlash using Xilinx SystemACE. My compact flash card has > two partitions, a 16MB FAT16 that holds the combination FPGA image / Linux > Kernel ELF file, and an Ext2 partition that holds the root file system. The > system starts the boot process, uncompresses the Linux kernel and begins > loading drivers. Part way into this process, it conducts a partition check > of the drive being reported to it by SystemACE, however, it hangs at that > point. No kernel panic, no error message, it simply hangs. Here is the > output at that point... > > Partition check: > xsysacea: > > what I am trying to find out is if this problem has been seen/fixed in the > past? or did I format the CF card incorrectly?
Checking partitions is a user-space activity (fsck). Remove it from your init scripts. Besides, unless your using a microdrive, your ext2 rootfs should be mounted read-only which greatly reduces the need for fsck. (because FLASH will wear out after too many writes) Cheers, g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc. P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. grant.likely at secretlab.ca (403) 399-0195
