Hi Laura,
If I remember correctly, the other thing that can cause this is not opening
up the tarball
as root. Are you doing this?
Mark
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Laura Spitler laura.spit...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi everyone,
I know this thread is old, but I'm running into the same problem. I'm
trying to boot my ROACH using a USB stick formatted with one partion
as ext2. I copied the latest filesystem (2010_03_24) (sudo cp -a )
onto the drive making sure the normal root directories are in the
root of the usb stick. The /dev/ directories are there.
It stalls on the same error as for Mark:
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k init
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Any ideas?
Laura
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Mark Wagner mwag...@eecs.berkeley.edu
wrote:
Thanks guys, I tried that and it seems to work now.
Mark
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Andy Lutomirski aml...@gmail.com
wrote:
cp -rp might not be enough -- the docs are vague on what it does to
symlinks. cp -a may be a better bet.
Also, you can convert ext2 to ext3 directly using tune2fs -j.
--Andy
On Feb 1, 2010, at 2:40 AM, Mark Wagner mwag...@eecs.berkeley.edu
wrote:
I updated my usb stick to the filesystem:
http://casper.berkeley.edu/svn/trunk/roach/sw/binaries/filesystem/filesystem_etch_2009-11-30.tar.bz
when I 'run usbboot' I get to:
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 15794175 512-byte hardware sectors (8087 MB)
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 15794175 512-byte hardware sectors (8087 MB)
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
EXT2-fs warning (device sda1): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem
as ext2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k init
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
warning: `ntpd' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)
and then the boot process freezes. I've repartitioned and rebuilt the
filesystem as ext3 and then simply copied (cp -rp) over the files as
i've
done on other working usb sticks. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Mark
