Re: [iPAQ] kernel won't flash

From: John Rigby <jrigby.a.t.lineo.com>
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 13:50:13 EDT

Turn ramfs on in .config and that should fix this.

Gordon McNutt wrote:

> I rebuilt a kernel from the source tarball off the handhelds.org
> instructions. I tried to load it. It appeared to load ok, but it won't
> boot. During boot the console spews a lot of messages about no
> permissions to modify /dev/*.
>
> Why would the kernel be modifying these files during boot? I added SIR
> support. Is it trying to make a /dev/ node for IR, and it can't because
> of the flash file system?
>
> I have no problems with the image provided on the web site.
>
> TIA
> --Gordon
>
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Received on Tue Sep 26 10:46:50 2000

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