Re: intimate installs but won't boot.

Well, nevermind, all. It turns out that it was actually missing the
backpaq-modules package. I had mistakenly assumed that since familiar
worked without those modules, that intimate would too. It turns out,
that it needs those modules to work with the dual-sleeve inside the
linuxrc.intimate portion of bootup. Oh well.

-Alon

Alon Peterson wrote:

> I really hope someone can help me fix this. I'm trying to get
> Intimate installed on an iPAQ 3670 with a 16mb flash, a dual-pcmcia
> sleeve, a wavelan card, and a 1GB Microdrive. I started with the
> installation of Intimate from scratch, following the instructions at
> http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/Linux2.4.6 and on the Intimate
> installation page. I used the kernel image
> 'zImage-2.4.6-rmk1-np2-devfs', and the root image
> 'task-bootstrap-2.4.6-rmk1-np2-devfs-hh4.jffs2'. I had to install the
> pcmcia and kernel modules serperately, but I got the thing to boot
> finally detecting both cards in the sleeve and talking over the
> network through the wavelan card. I still haven't gotten X to work,
> but I'm not really concerned with that. What I am concerned with is
> that I've gotten Intimate to install with no errors, and the linuxargs
> changed successfully, but it fails to boot. The following are the
> boot messages that I think are relevant:
>
Received on Thu Aug 9 15:23:16 2001