Re: Final status of CFBoot

On 3/28/06, M. Ghiath Khatib <mghiathk-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
>
> Hallo,
>
> Thanks for the response.

You're welcome.

> > > I am currently trying to boot my unit from a CF card. I followed exactly
> the
> > > steps mentioned in its respective website, but, unfortunately, all my
> > > attempts were unsuccessful (always blank, black screen). The reasons:
> > >
> > > 1. No final report on a working startup script.
> >
> >What to use for startup.txt depends on how your CF card is formatted.
>
>
> I have two partitions FAT16 (6 MB) and EXT2 (~2 GB). Can you please tell me
> how the full startup.txt should look like?

If the ext2 partition is the second partition, then try this:

set KERNEL zImage
set MTYPE 341
set CMDLINE "root=/dev/hda2 rootdelay=5"
bootlinux

> > > Can anybody tell me, what rootdelay=5 means? 5 mins, secs ,...?
> >
> >5 seconds.
>
> Ok, how long in total should I wait after the screen goes black before I see
> some output?

Up to 10 minutes or so.

Matt