Re: Fwd: Contributing to the project

From: Mark Overholser Jr <omnipotent13_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:10:48 -0500

When I was booting Linux on my x51v using prebuilt images, mirror mode
needed to be enabled beforehand, otherwise I think it would stick at the
same point.

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Joe Belford <joebelford_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I remember needing to make sure wifi and bluetooth were active before
> attempting to boot. If they weren't enabled you would encounter this exact
> problem. Also changing the mirror mode setting - I don't own a V model so
> I'm not sure if it was enabled or disabled.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Stavros Fox Polymenis <s.p_at_orbitalfox.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thats great!
>>
>> I have been looking into cross compiling the kernel for a while now, and
>> only recently did i find how i could possibly do it. I tried many things
>> including building a toolchain for ARM etc but always something went
>> wrong.
>>
>> So i am really interested if you have any tips on how to do set up the
>> toolchain.
>>
>> As for the error, there is something wrong with your boot parameters, as
>> in your haret starts ok, but there is probably something wrong with the
>> "kernel=.. root=.." command.
>>
>> Can you paste it here, along with your kernel name etc?
>>
>> Thanks alot,
>> Stavros
>>
>> On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 17:07 -0700, Louie Ilievski wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > In the last month I've started to familiarize myself with the project
>> > and have set up a development environment to help contribute to it. I
>> > own a x51v and want to put it to good use. I hope I can help do
>> > something useful for everyone. I have successfully built Angstrom
>> > images for my axim using the openembedded environment.
>> >
>> > So far I have been unable to boot anything I have built, however. I
>> > am using Haret 0.5.1 so maybe I need to try dropping down to 0.4.8
>> > which I see people linking to. It just gets stuck at "Jumping to
>> > kernel." If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
>> >
>> > I am Linux savvy and am a software developer by day, developing in
>> > Linux, for Linux, so I hopefully have a good foundation to help out.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > ~Lou
>>
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