Re: Re: kernel upgrading (trying)

From: Rik van der Helm <rik_at_the-quickest.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:04:10 +0200

Thanks all for replying. It helped me a bit further on.

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:10:42 +0200, "spammed" <spammed_at_get2net.dk> said:

> I have added a section to the wiki kernel page, from my own (recent)
> experience... The isolated 'make' must be a left-over from a previous
> version of the page, so I took the liberty of deleting it.

Thanks. With this description I managed to compile 'a' kernel. It starts
in the loox, but hangs on:
"Kernel panic - nog syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(0,255)"
I will continue to make a kernel with menuconfig.

> The loox720_defconfig is very basic, so you will have to do the
> menuconfig, to add support for ramdisks, usb, etc.
> Since your root 'partition' is an Opie image, you have to unpack and
> repack it to update the modules.

Any hints on or refs to how to unpack/repack opie are welcome.

Thx, Rik
loox.aoratos.nl
Received on Wed Sep 26 2007 - 09:04:12 EDT

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