Re: Re: stuck with haret CF boot...

Jack

Thanks very much for following that up and confirming your set up.
Sorry I've not got back sooner... life...

I think the best way I can get this sorted is to start from a known good
set up - yours. I'll email you off list (no need to bore the list to
tears with my woes) to get copies of your file system, kernel, haret,
startup.txt, and fstab - that should do it...

Many thanks again,
Morgan.

Jack Dodds wrote:
> Hello Morgan,
>
> I resurrected my CF and booted my H2200 from it.
>
> The COMMAND line and fstab that I gave in the last email was wrong. I
> thought I had copied it direct from the CF, but I was obviously wrong.
>
> I am using haret-0.3.8.exe, while you are using haret-0.5.1.exe, so I am
> not sure how valid my setup is for you.
>
> (Probably a dumb question, but you did not mention that you unzipped
> bootgpe-v0.8.4-h2200.tar.bz2 into the second partition of the CF.)
>
> Following is the startup.txt and /etc/fstab, taken straight off the
> first and second partitions, respectively, of the CF that I just
> booted. Also, the partition information of the CF. The only
> significant difference that I see is the order of fstab, and the fact
> that I commented out the /dev/hda1 entry.
>
> Is there perhaps a problem with the new version of haret?
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Jack Dodds
>
>
>
> set KERNEL zImage
> set MTYPE 341
> set CMDLINE "root=/dev/hda2 rootdelay=5 console=ttyS0,115200n8
> console=tty0"
> bootlinux
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdb1 1 21 5177 6 FAT16
> /dev/sdb2 22 1011 245520 83 Linux
>
>
>
>
> Morgan Read wrote:
>> 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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