http://www.handhelds.org/minihowto/filesystems.html
Warren Crossing wrote:
> on reflection whiile reading the irc logs,
> http://log.etype.com.ar/rx3715.2006-12-14.log.html
>
> make two partitions one fat for the kernel and haret and dfault.txt and
> another ext2 partition for the gpe image..
>
> Warren Crossing wrote:
>
>> hey Khyle,
>>
>> You totally need to put the gpe on a ext2 filesystem, not a fat one,
>> (dev filesystem and /lib/ require links)
>>
>> I ended up sticking the mmc card into a hpprinter and patitioning it.
>>
>> however you are using windows.. ok just put a recent copy of ubuntu
>> live into your cdrom drive and reboot (or use partition magic) which
>> should give you gparted the gnome partition editor. then tar -zxvf
>> gpe- into your new partition, no symbolic link problems now..
>>
>> remember to update you default.txt
>>
>> seems like hard work a!, it's totally worth the effort.
>>
>>
>> Khyle Westmoreland wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Guys
>>>
>>> I've spent literally all afternoon and evening searching for an
>>> answer to this and despite the numerous solutions others have found,
>>> I've ended up getting nowhere!
>>>
>>> Basically, off the download currently available off the website, I've
>>> transferred the bootloader to iPAQ File Store\Linux and the SD card
>>> image to my SD card. However, when unzipping (in WinRAR), I
>>> encountered loads of symbolic link errors. So, I unzipped them with
>>> Cygwin (command line), being forced to exclude a few files in
>>> /media/ram/home/morgan.
>>>
>>> When I boot, the screen does go to "white noise", then changes colour
>>> to be predominantly red. Then, the main boot screen loads, producing
>>> mainly positive results. It mounts the root FS (I changed default.txt
>>> to /dev/mmcblk0p1) successfully, but then returns a kernel panic
>>> saying "No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel."
>>>
>>> I've tried saying init=/sbin/init, but it brings the same error up.
>>> Basically, I haven't been able to find any solution to this message.
>>>
>>> My default.txt file is basically unchanged from the default, other
>>> than the change from mmcblk0p2 to mmcblk0p1.
>>>
>>> Any help would be *greatly* appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Khyle.
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