Re: Problems with LAB on iPaq 2210

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 07:57 +1000, Lady Michelle Bhaal wrote:
> I have a HP iPaq 2210 I bricked a while back whilst trying to update the
> BIOS under Vista. I eventually discovered that it was booting to the
> rescue screen, and managed to get LAB booting successfully. I have
> serial console access to LAB.
>
> However, LAB has no ls or cd command, and copy says that
> fs:/mnt/boot/zImage does not exist:
>
> boot> copy fs:/mnt/boot/zImage fs:/zImage
> Copying [fs:/mnt/boot/zImage] to [fs:/zImage] ...
> fs: getcheck: Sorry, /mnt/boot/zImage seems to be missing - or at least,
> not stat'able.
> Source [fs] rejected filename "/mnt/boot/zImage".
> boot>
>

Under some circumstances, eg. when you have attempted to update the
kernel, you can end up with a situation where the kernel link is
absolute rather than relative, which causes problems when LAB tries
to find the kernel. After installing a kernel, you always need to
check for this situation.

The boot directory *should* look something like this:

root_at_h2215:~$ ls -l /boot/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143 Jan 1 1970 labrun
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jan 1 1970 zImage ->
zImage-2.6.17-hh3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1348804 Dec 24 2006
zImage-2.6.17-hh3

So, if you can determine the version of the kernel you are running
(by examining the image you installed) you can type the full name
rather than just "zImage" and you should be able to boot manually.

> If I try to mount the CF card to /mnt I get the following
>
> boot> mount /dev/hda1 /mnt ext2
> lab: mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt failed with errno -6
> boot>
>
> I installed LAB via the file zImage-LAB-20060421.htc I got a checksum
> fail during the install (technically a 'checksum fial')
>

Might be ok ... you can always flash again for sanity :)

> At this point I'm stuck and I would appreciate some help.
>
> Thanks
>
> Michelle

Hope that helps.

Marcus.
Received on Wed Aug 29 2007 - 08:36:43 EDT