From: Mukesh Rajan (mrajan@hobbit.ICS.UCI.EDU)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 19:12:02 EST
hi,
i tried this but it did'nt work. the bootldr still tries to boot from
"root" partition. i tried "baddr kernel 517148" after loading kernel and
root of v0.4 it did'nt work either. interesting point is that after
loading kernel and root, if i do "md5sum kernel 517148" it returns
someother md5sum. i need to reboot the machine a couple of times and then
when i rerun "md5sum" again it returns the right md5sum. just out of
curiousity, does anyone know why? and has anyone been succesful booting
0.4 with the newer bootloader?
anyway, i downgraded the bootloader to the one that comes along with 0.4
and familiar 0.4 booted up. however i still could'nt find the /proc/scale
functionality i was looking for. there is a menu in X to change CPU speed
but it does nothing. does anyone know which kernel version implements
"/proc/scale"? strange that familiar releases contain cpu-scale.ipkg that
depends on that functionality but does nothing.
also "partition define root 0x100000 0 24" did'nt seem to work. upon "load
root" it returned "no space" or something like that. i had to rerun with
"partition root 0x100000 0xf00000 24"
- mukesh
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Hicks, Jamey wrote:
> 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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