Re: HaRET boot unsuccessfull

Andrey,

RamdiskRescue: http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/RamdiskRescue
(first hit in Google!)

The kernel released with Familiar does not have the necessary drivers
compiled statically into the kernel to be able to boot from a card. The
details on the RamdiskRescue and CardBoot pages should make this
obvious.

Marcus.

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 02:44 +0300, Andrey V Stolyarov wrote:
> Hi Marcus,
>
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Marcus Brown wrote:
>
> > Hi Andrey,
> >
> > Have a look at RamdiskRescue and see how you go.
>
> Well what is RamdiskRescue and where do I get it? I couldn't
> figure it out from the site.
>
> > Keep in mind that the first boot can take some time to complete (try
> > waiting at least 10mins ... it really depends on the card).
>
> Oh, this was the first thing I did :-) Having blank screen, I
> simply left the device on my desk and went to dinner, for about a
> half an hour.
>
> > It's impossible to debug these things without serial working.
>
> Okay, in fact I've got some news. Having another version of
> kernel (on my DOS partition), I managed to boot up with all other
> things unchanged. So, _definitely_ the kernel which is being
> handed out at
> http://handhelds.org/familiar/releases/v0.8.4/install/download.htm
> inside the bootgpe-XXX is the thing which stopped the show.
>
> May be should this be fixed somehow?
>
> > Marcus.
>
>
> Thanks guys!
>
> --
> Croco
Received on Wed Jan 09 2008 - 19:03:50 EST