Excellent, I am going to test that tonight! :)
Seems i have been asking the wrong questions recently, now i have had a chance
to look thru what actually goes in to running linux on the ipaq, am i right to
assume that linux on ipaq will alwayz use a loop file system like the one stored
in rootfs? Does the loop module in the kernel have the ability to encrypt the
filesystem already as for x86? i have downloaded the sources for everything, but
work is keeping me busy at the moment to look. :S
Quoting Peter Vicman <peter.vicman_at_uni-mb.si>:
> Hi all,
>
> I finaly have some time to spend for my iPAQ. I got to work booting from
> compact flash card. NFS is unnecessary. It is first attempt, so probably it
> is not perfect yet.
>
> I take rootfs_jun28a_2004.tar.bz2 and convert it to ext2 file, which is
> mounted from initrd as loop. I disabled pcmcia from rootfs, because CF card
> is already mounted from initrd. Some folders have beed added to mnt (cf,
> hda1), which are in initrd to.
> >From initrd/linuxrc first partition (FAT) from CF card is mounted and then
> rootfs loop file is mounted to rootfs and pivot_root to it.
> Kernel is old 2.6.6-hh0, manualy compiled by me (nothing special).
>
> So, if someone wish to test it, it can be downloaded from my home page:
> http://regul.uni-mb.si/~pvic/ipaq/ under folder "target".
>
> I expirenced some problems with screen calibration, which doesn't work
> always. I assume that this is general problem with rootfs and it is not
> connected with CF booting. I will investigate further.
>
> On CF card on first FAT partition it must exist folder "linux", which
> contains root filesystem file "rootfs". Other files (haret.exe,
> startup.txt,
> zImage and initrd) can can exist anywhere. In my case they exist in
> subfolder "cf_boot".
>
> Any comments or suggestions are welcome ...
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
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