Re: Re: New rootfs

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

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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Received on Fri Aug 06 2004 - 15:21:35 EDT