re: Dual Booting

Karl,
        Your email had a very old date on it so it got
buried down in my old emails and I just saw it.
        I have made progress since my last email. My
iPAQ is actually booting and running now. What I
did was like I said before but I used initrd,
params and zImage from
http://ipaq.secret.org.uk/ipaq-dualboot/ and it
booted on the first try. I used the initrd
instead of initrd.gz. I have since then redone
the partitioning to make the FAT16 partition
500MB and then reloaded the files and such.
        Also, I have been picking up various ipk
packages and installing them from local files (I
don't have network support yet).

Morris

--- Karl Nelson
<karlmnelson@unitedsystemsmanagement.com> wrote:
> I've been working on the same thing with an
> IPAQ 3760 and a IBM 1GB Microdrive.
> I think I've gotten beyond that stage a little
> bit I think.
> Did you put zImage, params, and initrd in the
> FAT16 partition in a directory called /boot?
> Also I found that I had to gunzip either zImage
> or initrd I don't remember which.
> I'm just stumbling around too. :-)
> I had to add the extention .gz to the file to
> get it to unzip.
> I've gotten the kernel to boot.
> Soon after it tried to mount /mnt/initrd it
> crashes.
> Karl Nelson
>
> > List,
> I am working on making an IPAQ 3760 dual
> boot. I
> am using a Toshiba 5GB pcmcia disk. I have used
> the BootingLinuxFromCF wiki as a guide and I
> used
> the downloads of zImage, initrd, params and
> rootfs(task-complete) as referenced from that
> page. I am using bootloader 2.8.38. After a lot
> of fiddling and head scratching, I configured
> the
> disk with an 8MB FAT16 first partition and the
> rest of the disk as a linux partition. I am
> getting through the boot process with the IPAQ
> to
> the point of the 'booting the kernel' message
> and
> then nothing. Where do I look next? What
> further
> information is needed to help me figure out
> what
> else I need to do?
> Thanks
>
> Morris Ford
>
>
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Received on Tue Apr 16 23:23:03 2002