Re: failed boot

Jonathan Pennington wrote:
> Wow. Thank you so much.
> Unfortunately, it still produces the same effect. The screen fades
> slowly to blank after the thermometer fills, and then nothing.

That's strange. It usually takes no more than some seconds until you
see the "uncompressing linux" message.

> I wonder
> if there's an issue with the USB->RS232 adapter.

You can test it with the tty.exe program. See below.

> I'm also unsure about the usbnetworking and the NFS mount. My impression
> was that I'm booting this with an RS232 connection. Am I then later
> setting up the usb network and the nfs mount? What's the actual sequence
> of events?

OK, sorry, my last post wasn't really understandable...

First, the setup: I'm using a dual USB/serial cable to connect the
ipaq to the desktop pc via USB *and* serial cable. USB for networking,
serial cable for console. On my desktop I use synce to transfer data
to the ipaq, but you can as well use a SD card reader.

To test if serial communication is working:

Put tty.exe on your ipaq's SD card. start it and set the baudrate to
115200, no parity, no flow control, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit. Connect
the serial cable and start minicom on your desktop. Use the same
parameters. Now you should be able to type some characters on your
keyboard wich should appear on your ipaq and vice versa.

If this works, start haret. What should happen: Thermometer fills,
penguins eyes change, screen fades out. But then you should immediately
see the kernel booting on your minicom. Shortly after that the ipaq's
screen should show the linux logo and a cursor.

Hope this helps,

Michael
Received on Fri Jul 30 04:45:44 2004