Re: A problem to install familiar

A problem to install familiarDid you remember to define you root partition
when setting up the bootldr ?

I missed this instruction the first time I set my iPAQ up and got a similar
error.

From the Install Howto
8<--------------------
At the "boot>" prompt, enter: qflash 1 to detect your flashROM size.
if the result is '0x00170017' then you have a 16MB flashROM and you need to
enter: partition define root 0x100000 0xf00000 16 at the "boot>" prompt
if the result is '0x00180018' then you have a 32MB flashROM and you need to
enter: partition define root 0x100000 0x1f00000 16 at the "boot>" prompt
--------------------->8

You should see something like this when typing "partition show" and the
boot> prompt.

boot> partition show
argv[1]=partition
npartitions=00000004
bootldr
  base: 00000000
  size: 00040000
 flags: 00000002
params
  base: 00040000
  size: 00040000
 flags: 00000000
kernel
  base: 00080000
  size: 00080000
 flags: 00000000
root
  base: 00100000
  size: 00F00000
 flags: 00000010

Regards,

Nathan Alberti
Broadlogic
www.broadlogic.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Kent Xu
To: 'familiar@handhelds.org' ; 'ipaq@handhelds.org'
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 8:57 AM
Subject: [Familiar] A problem to install familiar

Dear Sir,
When I install familiar,
        Flashing the Root Filesystem
        At the "boot>" prompt, issue the following command: load root

However, the bootldr cannot recognize "load root" as following:
        boot>help
        .....
        load [kernel | ramdisk | bootldr | params | usercode | ram]
>boot root
        load kernel
        load bootldr
        load altkernel (alternate kernel)
        load usercode
        load ramdisk
        load params
        load ram <dstaddr>
        load flash <dstaddr>
        load debugger
How to do this?
Kent Xu
xu.kent@inventec-inc.com
Received on Tue May 29 18:16:18 2001