Re: Re: New rootfs

Koen Kooi wrote:
> OE seems to use the 2.6.7 kernel instead of the 2.6.6 kernel. I'm
> investigating the issue. Unfortunately my laptop drive died (4 weeks
> old!) so I spend most of the day trying to make a backup.

Bad luck :(

> Tomorrow I will kick OE and try to roll a working zImage. More news
coming :)

Yes :)

>
> regards,
>
> Koen
>
>
> Op 6-aug-04 om 20:57 heeft Robert E. Anderson het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Well I can't say that I'm an expert in dealing with OE or the 2200 port
>> but I did attempt to make the provided rootfs work on my 2215.
>>
>> Looking over what Michael had done on the working rootfs I figured it
>> was worth attempting to do the same thing. The reason being that I
>> still wanted to NFS mount it.
>>
>> Here's what I ended up doing:
>>
>> 1. I moved the old /home/ipaq_rootfs aside and put the new one in place
>> and attempted to boot. It didn't work, but somehow that failure pointed
>> me toward the /linuxrc.
>>
>> 2. I copied over the following files and directories from the old rootfs
>> to the OE based one: /linuxrc, /root/custom_utils,
>> /etc/sysconfig/platformvars. I also added the following two lines to
>> the /etc/fstab:
>>
>> devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
>> none /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
>>
>> 3. After getting module errors I uncompressed the Jun10'th initrd,
>> mounted it loopback and ran the update modules script with it pointed at
>> the OE rootfs module area. I then unmounted it and recompress it,
>> copied it over to my 2215 and changed the startup for Haret to use my
>> new initrd and the zImage-cvs from the OE rootfs.
>>
>> After a lot of debugging I believe that the zImage created by the OE
>> rootfs does not boot. I changed a lot of settings in Harets startup and
>> I can't seem to ever get any booting messages on the serial console of
>> the OE created zImage. My initrd seems to work with the OLD zImage, but
>> complains about modules (as it should).
>>
>> Perhaps the OE build scripts are still building a bad version on the
>> linux kernel? Would it be possible to either get the necessary OE
>> patches so that I could build one myself or have Koen Kooi make another
>> one using the same 2.6.6-hh0 CVS version of the Kernel that Michael
>> used?
>>
>> Then again I may be off on completely the wrong track. I also have a CF
>> card and could boot mounting off of that if that seems like a better
>> approach. Currently I'm of the opinion that the OE zImage just doesn't
>> work on the 2215.
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Robert E. Anderson email: rea@sr.unh.edu
>> Systems Programmer phone: (603) 862-3489
>> UNH Research Computing Center fax: (603) 862-1761
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Received on Fri Aug 6 15:24:59 2004