Re: Re: Welcome to the "Hx4700-port" mailing list

From: Peter Seebach <seebs_at_plethora.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:25:16 -0500

In message <42FC0DC0.9050909_at_sdgsystems.com>, Todd Blumer writes:
>So, it sounds like the initrd is running fine, but the /linuxrc in the
>initrd doesn't find the rootfs.img file? This problem is usually due to
>the formatting of the CF card. Try using fdisk plus mkfs.vfat on Linux
>or by using a digital camera.

I'm not sure; I think it may actually be failing to find initrd, because
/linuxrc looks like it would give different output.

>Or, you can dig into the initrd file and look at the contents:
>
>You can gunzip the initrd file, then mount it as a loop device
>(mount -o loop initrd <dir>)
>and look at the <dir>/linuxrc file.

Yup. (Well, I used vndconfig et al...)

>But, it's actually easier, IMHO, to just save your WinCE image and boot
>natively. It takes only 15 minutes or so to save or restore WinCE.

Actually, I may switch to doing that, since I now have a backup (I hope!) of
WinCE.

-s
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