From: Hicks, Jamey (Jamey.Hicks@compaq.com)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 08:36:22 EST
Mukesh,
The newer bootldr has a different default flash partitioning than is needed for v0.4. I'm afraid you're going to have to reinstall the task bootstrap, but first, upgrade to bootldr 2.18.01, then:
partition reset
partition delete root
partition define params 0x40000 0x40000 0
partition define kernel 0x80000 0x80000 0
partition define root 0x100000 0 24
Now there is a params partition, so 'params save' will write the params and partition data to the params partition.
params save
What features of v0.4 do you prefer to v0.5 or v0.5.1?
Jamey
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mukesh Rajan [mailto:mrajan@hobbit.ICS.UCI.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 3:50 PM
> To: familiar@handhelds.org
> Cc: bootldr@handhelds.org
> Subject: [Bootldr] v0.4 with new bootloader
>
>
> hi,
>
> i had familiar v0.5 till recently. i had installed it with
> instructions
> in the install guide and everything was fine till i recently
> decided to
> downgrade to v0.4.
>
> since i had v2.16.19 bootloader as listed in v0.5 install guide,
> already installed, i directly proceeded with install
> instructions in v0.4
> guide from after installing the bootloader. however this is what i got
>
> >booting jffs2...
> >booting boot/zImage from partition >root<
> >find_inode failed for name=boot
> >Failed to find inode
> >loaded file of size = 0x00000000 at location 0xC0008000
> >kernel partition base C0008000
> >kernel_magic=5F5282B5
> >kernel_region_words[9]=E88EBFBF
> >Unrecognized kernel image
>
> during install process everything went smooth except that
> when i issued
>
> "params save" i got only
> bootldr: set linuxargs "notintrd root=/dev/mtdblock/4 init=/linuxrc
> console = ttySA0" and nothing more like
>
> > programming flash....erasing etc......... as listed in
>
> http://familiar.handhelds.org/familiar/releases/v0.4/install/H
> 3600/install.html
>
> md5 checksums are all fine. do i really need to downgrade the
> bootloader
> too or is there something i'm missing? is there some
> incompatibility with
> bootloader for v0.5 and older familiar versions?
>
> thanks in advance
> - mukesh
>
>
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