Re: Installation problem (LAB)

On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 02:07 +0300, Vlad Muraviev wrote:
> I tried to install on HP iPaq 2210 Familiar Linux 0.84 using instruction:
> http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqH2200LAB
>
> LAB bootloader used from there:
> http://handhelds.org/~mreimer/zImage-LAB-20060421.htc
>
> The rootfs is CF Card (512 M).
>
> I copy bootloader on the card and so on...
> dd if=~/Desktop/HP2210/zImage-LAB-20060421.htc of=/dev/sdc
>
> ...After:
> 1) replacing 2nd bootloader
> 2) restart with the ext2-formatted CF card and after executing that:
> sudo tar -jxpf
> /home/vlad/Desktop/HP2210/bootgpe-v0.8.4-h2200/bootgpe-v0.8.4-h2200.tar.bz2
> -C /media/disk
> (I don't really know why not "tar -xjf", but this command have been
> found in one of the pages on hasndlers.org describing the installation
> procedure).
>
> 3) After editing /media/disk/etc/fstab:
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> tmpfs /var tmpfs defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/card auto
> defaults,sync,noauto,noatime,exec,suid 0 0
> 4)... create /media/disk/boot/labrun with text:
> copy fs:/mnt/zImage-2.6.15-hh2 fs:/zImage
> umount /mnt
> armboot fs:/zImage «root=/dev/hda1 rootdelay=5»
>
> ...The only thing happeng after reboot is the pinguin and inscription
> "start..."
>
> So, what could I do?

Vlad,

You don't appear to have read the page correctly.
Why have you replaced the bootloader only to attempt a CF boot?
The Familiar kernel (most likely) does not have the ability to do this.
Check the card-boot and Ramdisk-Rescue pages for details.

Marcus.
Received on Mon Feb 04 2008 - 07:04:36 EST