Re: Please Help Familiar Install Failure

Hi,
Initially I had a similar problem. The familiar installations instructions
can mislead you into pulling down a booldr that appears to be incompatible
with the either the task* filesystems or the osloader. I eventually did
not upgrade to the 2.14.8 bootldr and instead pulled down the 2.14.5
bootldr. Things worked after that. Here are the files and their sizes
that I used.

             100,736 bootldr-0000-2.14.5
              79,872 osloader-1.3.0.exe
          12,058,624 task-familiar-complete.jffs2
             517,148 zImage-2.4.3

Let me know if you need the checksums.

After I used these files, the image decompressed and booted properly. Hope
this helps!

Brien Muschett
IBM, Embedded Speech Development
Boca Raton, FL
T/L 975-2180
1-561-862-2180

                                                                                                                                 
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Hi all

I really need your help with my installation problem.

I am trying to get familiar v0.4 working on my iPAQ
H3660 with a 64MB CompactFlash Memory module.

The version of the bootloader is 2.14.8, and the root
 image is task-familiar-complete.jffs2

I went through all the steps of the installation successfully.
For the first boot after typing boot, I get that on the terminal display :
boot> boot
booting flash...
kernel_magic=E1A00000
kernel_region_words[9]=016F2818
Linux ELF flash_imgstart=50080000 size=00080000 dest=C0000000
offset=00008000
MMU Control=C19F4071
copying Linux kernel ... done
linuxEntryPoint: C0008000
kernel_image_dest: C0000000
kernel_image_offset: 00008000
C0008000: E1A00000
C0008004: E1A00000
C0008008: E1A00000
C000800C: E1A00000
C0008010: E1A00000
C0008014: E1A00000
C0008018: E1A00000
C000801C: E1A00000
C0008020: EA000002
C0008024: 016F2818
root_filesystem_name=ramdisk
argc=00000002
args=noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock/3 init=/linuxrc console=ttySA0
setting boot parameters
get_param: could not find parameter system_rev
Setting up Linux parameters at address=C0000100
using_ramdisk=00000001
initrd_start=346C7466
dram_size=04000000
nr_pages=00004000
command line is: noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock/3 init=/linuxrc console=ttySA0
linuxEntryPoint=C0008000
Booting Linux image

And the process stop at this stage and the cursor flashing.
I have one error message after the line saying setting boot parameters. The
message is :
get_param: could not find parameter system_rev

What's wrong and what should I do.

Please I really need to have this fixed and working quick
Thanks in advance

---
Latyr Jean-Luc FAYE
http://faye.cjb.net
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