Re: Re: Direct boot from compact flash?

From: spammed <spammed_at_get2net.dk>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:23:32 +0200

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 10:27 +0200, Piotr Czechowicz wrote:
Yes, you need to load this module.

> > Besides that I needed ide_core, ide_cs and ide_disk. For now at least
> > I get my partitions when I insert the card.
> These are loaded via dependencies, AFAIR.

The only explicit dependencies seem to be that ide_cs and ide_disk both depend on ide_core.

> Left green led is related to wifi. When you load loox720_pcmcia wifi is
> also powered (we are in early stage of power management).
>
> WiFi is connected to one of the PCMCIA slots :)
> (it's always inserted :) )

Aha! That would explain it...

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 12:35 +0200, jan rinze wrote:

> Wifi will only work after the acx module ahs been loaded.
> Do NOT build the ACX code directly into the kernel. That way it won't
> be able to load firmware.
> Did i say firmware? yes.. for both bluetooth and wifi to work you need
> its firmware.

Thanks for the heads-up. I had already built a kernel with everything
except PPP, codepages, and crypto/CRC.

> If you want to boot from CF and succeed, pleas let us know..
> best chances are that you boot with the root=<major>:<minor> method
> (we use this for booting fron SDcard)
> also we use rootdelay=1 for waiting 1 second before mounting rootfs
> (time to settle for SDcards etc.)

When I boot from SD and insert the CF, it shows up as major #3. So I
boot from CF using the same default.txt except for root=3:2. The card is
recognised, assigned irq 164, and set up as hda. The partitions are
correctly listed in the output. But it only gets as far as 'Freeing init
memory: 96K'. After that, instead of init running all I get is 'hda:
lost interrupt' repeated every 30 sec. :-(
Maybe the interrupts/DMA need some setting up from the Haret script, if
possible?

Best regards,
Jacob N
Received on Thu Sep 20 2007 - 08:23:40 EDT

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