On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:40 PM, syed yaqoob ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have downloaded qtopia and after preparing sdcard ,installed the > kernel and file system in the respective partitions.But when i m trying > to boot thorough sdcard in qtopia . During kernel execution kernel is > panicking .I am getting the following error. > > " Warning : unable to open an initial console " > " Kernel panic - not syncing : no init found .try passing init= option > to kernel"
Have you tried with Shakthi Kannan's procedure: http://www.mail-archive.com/support@lists.openmoko.org/msg01103.html for which I was very grateful, since the procedure otherwise seemed a bit intimidating. Of course, step 6 assumes that the SD card has at some point gotten out of the card reader on your host PC and back into the (booted and USB networking-connected) phone... but you can also adapt the commands to untar the image onto the microSD card while it is still in your card reader on your host PC, and still get the same results (I did it that way). Actually, you could probably just pipe the tar stdout output from the /dev/mtdblock0 mountpoint to another tar process that untarred it onto the ext2 partition on the microSD card in your card reader, and it should still work. However, despite refinements, I found that Shakthi's method worked very well for me. A small glitch I found with Qtopia on the SD card, though, was that practically all the filesystem-related functionality (music player, etc etc) only seemed to look at the first, VFAT partition... even though apparently running off the second, ext2 filesystem. SSHing into the phone revealed that /etc/fstab did not have a mount line for the second partition (??!) but despite adding that and rebooting the phone, I was unable to get Qtopia to "see" my music on the second partition. Still haven't figured that one out (though I don't get too much time to play with the phone) :-( HTH Ed. _______________________________________________ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support