On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Franck L <fra...@kernlog.net> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 06:10:24PM +0400, Yuri Bushmelev wrote : >> 2010/10/28 Franck L <fra...@kernlog.net>: >> > i noticed that at everyboot, it set back the hwclock to 1-1-1970, which >> > make my zaurus make fsck.ext3 at everyboot. >> > So, i switched back to linux-kexecboot-2.6.34-rc4 , which not have this >> > problem. >> >> I'm sure this is kernel problem.. > it was a problem from me, sorry ; see my reply to Andrea. > >> >> > less important : for the 2.6.2x-new-gui, i don't know if it's me, but >> > the choice is a little hard in "sunlight", because the contrast between >> > the chosen line (white) and the others choices (light grey) isn't >> > enough. >> >> Yes, this is known problem. I'll change colors to be more contrast. > ok, thank you :) > >> >> > the device scan is long i think. but it might be normal ? >> >> NAND scanning takes most part of time. If you have nothing useful in >> NAND then just erase it with mtd-utils. >> > i'll give it a try ; that's right, i never used the NAND i think, or > maybe to reinstall cacko when things want to bad with u-boot. but it was > a long time ago. > >> > i was wondering... would it be hard to add a little console entry, to be >> > able to log, in order to make some tasks ; for example, mounting hdd and >> > sd card, in order to put a new/old kexecboot on the SD to reflash the >> > kexecboot, resetting hwclock in kexecboot (...) >> > but would it be a good idea ? >> >> Well.. I have thinking about this regularly. But you can just boot >> e.g. console-image from some media.. > i'm gonna advocate for the console entry in kexecboot ; here is why. > > * i do not have a SD card dedicated for another system (like a quick > console-image), so everytime i need to use another system to rescue, i > have to pick the SD from my camera, save all, format, install the image, > boot on it (...). i could buy one you will tell me :) > > * for some new-kernel testing, if the new kernel fails to run correctly, > it would be more quick to just log from kexecboot, mount and change the > ln -s in the /boot entry to try another image, (and maybe rescan from > kexecboot after) instead of booting an other image, mount the fs with > erroneous boot entry, ln -s zImage, reboot... > > * for other minor change like the ln -s told above (change fstab...) > same as above. > > I totally understand that it could make the kexecboot too heavy, more > longer to start... > I'm also aware that it could become a time eater for you to make it > happens, especially if i'm the only person who would occasionnaly use > it. > I wonder what other people think. i just told why i would prefer with > the console, i'm open and curious about other people opinion. > > Thank you for all :) > > Franck >>
Franck, Another Option would be to flash a console imgae to Nand. That's the setup I use on my poodle. That way I have a way to recover bad SD cards or other issues... Plus the Nand on a poodle is kinda small for other stuff anyways. -- Henry von Tresckow (hvontres) _______________________________________________ Zaurus-devel mailing list Zaurus-devel@lists.linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zaurus-devel
