Re: stuck with haret CF boot...

Below...

Jack Dodds wrote:
> Hello Morgan,
>
> I have successfully booted my H2200 from a CF. I'm now booting from SD,
> but I kept some of the files from the CF, so I hope this helps:
>
> Your startup.txt CMDLINE is different from mine. I have:
>
> set CMDLINE "root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=5 console=ttyS0,115200n8
> console=tty0"
>
> My /etc/fstab is also different (don't ask me to explain - I don't
> remember the reasoning behind this!):
>
> /dev/mtdblock3 / jffs2 defaults 1 1
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> tmpfs /var tmpfs defaults 0 0
> #
> # Changed by Jack 2006-11-22 per wiki
> #
> #/dev/hda1 /media/cf auto
> defaults,sync,noauto,noatime,exec,suid 0 0
> /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/card auto
> defaults,sync,noauto,noatime,exec,suid 0 0
>
> Note that the screen goes blank during the boot process for quite a
> while - like 2 - 4 minutes.
Well, perhaps all I need is a little more patience...

But, isn't /dev/mmcblk0p2 for sd/mmc cards?
http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/CardBoot#head-1f93f400f79f54a192be22a95e492347b299e4e7
Like what you say you're booting now?

Thanks,
M.

>
> Good luck.
>
> Jack Dodds
>
>
>
>
>
> Morgan Read wrote:
>> 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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