Re: X50v testing files with fat32 SD card

From: Nick Jaksic <nick_at_amicro.biz>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:55:39 -0900

are there any other files on your sd card?
you can have other sub folder on it but no other files on the root.
sometimes it take me few tries.

Halvor Borgen wrote:

Mirror mode is on, and I have version A05.

Still freezes.

ons, 11,.01.2006 kl. 11.44 -0900, skrev Nick Jaksic:
  

make sure mirror mode is on and that you have A03 and above
Nick Jaksic, SSE
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Halvor Borgen wrote: 
    

I finally got a cardreader and a SD-card to try this out.

I copy your files onto the card, but when I try to run haret, it just
freezes and I have to hardreset. This happens every time!

-Halvor

man, 09,.01.2006 kl. 16.11 +0100, skrev JeDi:
  
      

Hi,

I created files for the x50v, which runs linux right from a normal
fat32 sd card. I put the files on
http://lumumba.uhasselt.be/~jedi/x50v-linux/
Just copy all files there on an sd card (in fact, you can choose where
to but these, but the x50v-rootfs.img has to be in the root dir of the
sd card), enable mirror mode, run haret_uart.exe, press run, and watch
linux boot into OPIE.

I used Fisherss beta kernel sources, but I compiled in some bigger
fonts and a nice penguin on top of the screen :-)

Some technical info:
The initrd that gets loaded starts a script that mounts the fat32 sd
card, and after that mounts the root filesystem from the
x50v-rootfs.img ext2 image file on the sd card. Then it chroots to the
new root filesystem and boots as normal.

The ext2 image I created is 63 MB, so people can still put it on a
64MB SD card, but there's only about 9 MB free disk space in the
image. I'm not sure that'll be enough in the future, but it boots for
now.

I don't have a regular x50, so I can't create (or actually, test)
files for that device, but people that can mount the initrd that I've
created can look in the /linuxrc file. Apart from editing that file, I
also had to copy some modules from the kernel (vfat and dependencies,
loop) and create some /dev files for the loop device to work.


X50v guys (or girls), please try this, and report if it works! If you
get a screen fading to white when you press run, just reset and try
again. I had that problem too, don't know what it is. And again, don't
forget to enable mirror mode (Settings/screen) or you won't see a
thing!

Greetz,
JeDi
    
        

Received on Wed Jan 11 2006 - 15:54:33 EST