Re: HELP!! bootloader problem

> 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...!:((
>

just after a new reset, do you push the 'calendar' button ? ...

> This is what appears when I reset my iPAQ :
>
>
>
> ............ done, booting the kernel.
> Linux version 2.4.3-rmk2-np1 (root@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@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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