Re: [asus-port] Booting from CF

On 5 March 2007 06:56, Santiago Lizardo Oscares wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm trying to boot Linux in my MyPal A730 after compiling the kernel
> 2.6 from HH.org and everything goes very well, but when I finally boot
> with the haret 0.4.6 and my new kernel I only get the "unable to mount
> root" message.

Check, that CF and ATA support is compiled in.
Make sure, you've defined correct partition (for CF here: /dev/hdaN).
Try to use kernel parameter rootdelay=3 - CF card was detected as an IDE
device right after (with 1-3 seconds delay) kernel was trying to mount root.

> I don't have clear which is the right device that identifies my
> compact flash memory card.
> I saw things like /dev/hda1 /dev/mmc/blk0 /dev/ram0 254:2 0:0 and
> etc... I have tried almost all the possibilities and I can't use my
> opie distribution.
>
> My CF memory card was properly formatted and the OPIE distribution was
> uncompressed with root privileges (in order to create the /dev files)
>
> Can somebody give me a hand? I spent several days and I giving up :(
>
> Thank you and awesome work!
Received on Sun Mar 04 2007 - 18:48:00 EST