Re: Re: H4100-port Digest, Vol 41, Issue 1

Hi Jod,

Jod Cadieux wrote:
> One issue I always ran into was when using a card reader for my SD card
> it didn't always make a mmcblk0p2 for an ext2 partition, in fact it made
> a mmcblk0p6 for ext2 and an mmcblk0p5 for a fat16 (location of haret and
> zImage and so forth). The mmcblk0p2 issue can be addressed in the
> startup.txt file once you know what your partition is set for.

Your partition layout suggests that the card was formatted using PPC,
which creates a logical partition (part 5) in an extended partition
(part 4). This can be corrected by using RamdiskRescue OR by formatting
the card with a camera, or Linux, before setting everything up.

>
> set CMDLINE "root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0"
>
> I may be right out in left field but if this setting is incorrect it
> won't locate your linux partition.

The root stanza needs to point to the Linux root filesystem.

> Another issue I had experienced was
> extracting the tarball onto my desktop then moving it to a linux
> partition on the sd card, invariably it would extract subfolders during
> the move on me and lead to startup issues, my workaround (being a
> relative noob) was to copy the tarball to the sd card then cmd line
> extract it in location... seems to work like a charm...

Have a look at the manpage for tar
$ man tar
which should tell you about the -C option.
eg.
$ tar -jxpf tarball.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/targetDir/

Marcus.

>
> Best of Luck
>
> Jod
>
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> 1. filesystem error on HP4155 (Richard Tonda)
> 2. Re: filesystem error on HP4155 (Marcus Brown)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Richard Tonda <rtonda_at_hotmail.com <mailto:rtonda_at_hotmail.com>>
> To: <h4100-port_at_handhelds.org <mailto:h4100-port_at_handhelds.org>>
> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:52:35 -0400
> Subject: [H4100-port] filesystem error on HP4155
>
> Good morning,
>
> I have been trying to launch LINUX on my HP iPAQ (4155), using the
> instructions and files referred to on the web page below:
>
> http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/RamdiskRescue
> <http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/RamdiskRescue>
>
> The haret program works well, apparently, and I get to the RAMDISK
> step where I install LINUX. The process starts, but it gets to the
> evaluation of the file system and invariably states there is not a
> valid filesystem. I have retrieved the files from the indicated
> website, and the layout is as shown on the website.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Rick
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Marcus Brown <marcusbrutus_at_internode.on.net
> <mailto:marcusbrutus_at_internode.on.net>>
> To: Richard Tonda < rtonda_at_hotmail.com <mailto:rtonda_at_hotmail.com>>
> Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:37:53 +1000
> Subject: Re: [H4100-port] filesystem error on HP4155
> Hi Richard,
>
> Without knowing exactly what the problem is (the RR-syslog.gz
> might help), my guess would be that your card is not partitioned.
>
> Marcus.
>
> Richard Tonda wrote:
> > Good morning,
> >
> > I have been trying to launch LINUX on my HP iPAQ (4155), using
> the instructions and files referred to on the web page below:
> >
> > http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/RamdiskRescue
> >
> > The haret program works well, apparently, and I get to the
> RAMDISK step where I install LINUX. The process starts, but it gets
> to the evaluation of the file system and invariably states there is
> not a valid filesystem. I have retrieved the files from the
> indicated website, and the layout is as shown on the website.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Rick
>
>
>
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