Hi Folks
I figure the two most likely places I've stuffed up are writing
/etc/fstab and startup.txt correctly...
Here's what I've done -
I've followed the instructions for a haret boot here:
http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/CardBoot
Got the tar file from:
http://handhelds.org/familiar/releases/v0.8.4/install/download.html
And ended up with a directory like (minus haret-0.5.1.exe startup.txt):
[root_at_morgansmachine bootgpe-v0.8.4-h2200]# ls
bootgpe-v0.8.4-h2200.jffs2 haret-0.5.1.exe startup.txt
bootgpe-v0.8.4-h2200.tar.bz2 LAB-image-h2200.htc zImage-2.6.15-hh2-h2200
[root_at_morgansmachine bootgpe-v0.8.4-h2200]#
Got haret following this link:
http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HaRET
From here:
http://www.handhelds.org/~koconnor/haret/haret-0.5.1.exe
Created startup.txt, like so:
set KERNEL zImage
set MTYPE 341
set CMDLINE "root=/dev/hda2 rootdelay=5 console=tty0"
bootlinux
(With a return following the last line "bootlinux".)
Formatted my CF card like so:
[root_at_morgansmachine bootgpe-v0.8.4-h2200]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
...
Disk /dev/sdc: 4009 MB, 4009549824 bytes
124 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7688 * 512 = 3936256 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a6aa7
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 2 7657 6 FAT16
/dev/sdc2 3 1018 3905504 83 Linux
[root_at_morgansmachine bootgpe-v0.8.4-h2200]#
(Both wince and linux can see what you'd expect them to see.)
This is what /etc/fstab looks like:
/dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /var tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /media/cf auto defaults,sync,noauto,noatime,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/card auto defaults,sync,noauto,noatime,exec,suid 0 0
(With a return on the last line.)
Copied with the following to /dev/sdc1:
# cp startup.txt /mnt/sdc1/startup.txt
# cp zImage-2.6.15-hh2-h2200 /mnt/sdc1/zImage
# cp haret-0.5.1.exe /mnt/sdc1/haret.exe
I put the CF card in the ipaq and haret seems to start ok:
"Haret booting linux ..."
Followed by a blank screen with some white text that's too quick to
catch, but something looking like it might be a boot start, then the
screen darkens (back light seems to go out) with the boot start messages
still visible - then they disappear and I'm left with a blank screen.
As, I said - I suspect my writing of either "startup.txt" or "fstab" to
be at issue. Can anyone confirm and give me a pointer?
Many thanks.
Morgan.
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