RE: [iPAQ] How to save params in bootldr?

Thanks so much. That worked!

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Chott [mailto:verxion@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 11:30 AM
To: Subramanian Sridharan-rat701; Jamey Hicks \(E-mail\);
'ipaq@handhelds.org'
Subject: Re: [iPAQ] How to save params in bootldr?

Look in /boot for a params file. If you don't have one, simply
create it with a:

linuxargs="...."

line. Fill in the .... with whatever linuxargs you want. Just
remember if you mess up, you can fix them with the boot loader
itself to get yourself booted up.

-Joe Chott

--- Subramanian Sridharan-rat701
<Sridharan.Subramanian@motorola.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question in the bootldr.
>
> I want to modify the linuxargs parameter and remove
> console=ttySA0 to some dummy value. This is what happens:
>
> set linuxargs "noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock1 init=/linuxrc
> console=ttySAO"
> setting param <linuxargs> to value <noinitrd
> root=/dev/mtdblock1 init=/linuxrc
> console=ttySAO>
> boot> params save
> bootldr: set linuxargs "noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock1
> init=/linuxrc console=ttySAO"
> No params partition found. I cannot save params into Wince or
> JFFS2 files!!!
>
> I boot it and the parameters do take effect. However, when I
> reboot the iPaq (3650) - hard reset, the params are not saved
> in flash.
>
> Can you help me? I need to get this working.
>
> Thanks,
> Sri
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Received on Thu Jun 06 16:36:41 2002