On Dec 18, 2007 9:42 AM, Andy Halsall
<andyhalsall-FIrUYBJFfi4AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Aaron Diab wrote:
> > Andy,
> >
> > I have also been trying to get angstrom to boot from
> > sd or cf.
>
> Aaron, I *can* boot Angstrom from the CF (or rather could, there seems
> to be an issue with the hh19 series of kernels... and the older images
> are no longer available on site (and of course I have managed to get rid
> of my copies in an overeager attempt to reduce the number of PDA related
> gz's I had stored over time...)
The hh19 issue was my fault, there was a typo in my GPIO code refactor
causing the 3.3V pin to be never activated. I already committed a
patch to CVS that should fix the regression, but I couldn't test until
now.
> The way to do it (once CF support is back in and working properly -
> apparently a bug report has been filed) is to split your CF card into
http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3484
> two partitions (I use a 12M /dev/hda1 and the rest of the 2Gb card
> /dev/hda2 (as seen by the PDA)). Then I place the extracted file system
> on /dev/hda2, making any changes I need (i.e. replace
> /etc/network/interfaces, modify the contents of /etc/ipkg to include
> unstable feeds, modify /etc/modules to load the wifi stuff by default
> and add a wifi.sh script to restart the wifi after a suspend).
>
> In /dev/hda I create the folder /boot and into that I place the zImage
> relevant to the FS I have in /dev/hda2, I also include a file called
> params with the boot options (currently "set linuxargs root=/dev/hda2
> rootdelay=15 console=ttyS0,115200n8" (without the quotes)). That set up
> worked with -hh16 and -hh12 kernels.
>
> Since the new boot loader with the rather nice menu has appeared I have
> also flashed that to the device and included a menu.lst file in the root
> of /dev/hda1 so that I can pick whether I want boot from CF / Flash or
> SD card. (although I have only tried the first two so far.)
>
> In addition, I should point out that the Unsupported Opie Image
> available form angstrom works with the gentoo hh-16 kernel and is fully
> usable from CF as of now, although a little limited in functionality.
> (http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/unsupported-images/hx4700/20071001/
> just extract the cpio from the gz and then the file system from the cpio
> - if you are unfamiliar with cpio archives, note to unpack simply move
> tot the directory you wish to extract to and then cpio -i <
> /$path/$to/$archive.cpio)
>
>
> Thanks.
> >
> >
> > --- Andy Halsall <andyhalsall-FIrUYBJFfi4AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
>
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