HELP!! bootloader problem

From: Maurizio Megliola <maurizio.megliola_at_txt.it>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:20:57 +0200

Hi,
I've a big problem with installation of Familiar Linux v0.4 on my iPAQ
3630.
In a first moment, I got a successfull installation, and everything seemed
to run...then, probably after some risky RESET, the boot loader has started to give
me problems...
Now after I reset iPAQ, the terminal emulator (NT hyper terminal) does not
presents a 'boot>' prompt, so I cannot re-install properly the distribution and the iPAQ is
dead...!:((
Is there a chance for me to re-give life to my iPAQ?
Thanks in advance,
Maurizio

This is what appears when I reset my iPAQ :

............ done, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.4.3-rmk2-np1 (root_at_step) (gcc version 2.95.4 20010319
(Debian pr
erelease)) #2 Mon May 14 12:21:48 PDT 2001
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1110 revision 6
Architecture: Compaq iPAQ
On node 0 totalpages: 8192
zone(0): 8192 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock4 init=/linuxrc
console=ttySA0
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Calibrating delay loop... 180.22 BogoMIPS
Memory: 32MB = 32MB total
Memory: 30872KB available (987K code, 256K data, 60K init)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Starting kswapd v1.8
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 40x30
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 40x30
block: queued sectors max/low 20224kB/6741kB, 64 slots per queue
JFFS2 version 2.1. (C) 2001 Red Hat, Inc., designed by Axis Communications
AB.
SA1100 serial driver version 1.3
ttySA0 on SA1100 UART3 (irq 17)
ttySA1 on SA1100 UART1 (irq 15)
ttySA2 on SA1100 UART2 (irq 16), using IRDA
SA1100 flash: probing for 4 partitions (buswidth = 4)
SA1100: Found 2 x16 devices at 0x0 in 32-bit mode
JEDEC ID: 89 18
0: offset=0x0,size=0x40000,blocks=128
No RedBoot partition table found. Using default partitioning
No Bootldr partition table found. Using default partitioning
SA1100 flash access initialized
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
Fast Floating Point Emulator V0.0 (c) Peter Teichmann.
devfs: v0.102 (20000622) Richard Gooch (rgooch_at_atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x2
VFS: Cannot open root device "mtdblock4" or 1f:04. retval=-19
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 1f:04

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Maurizio Megliola
TXT e-solutions S.p.a.
Tel.: +39.010.3536634
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