Re: Opie boot. Complete procedure+questions.

Hi Icevird,

Icebird wrote:
> Hi, All.
> Decided to try and boot opie, since I found a lot of ipkgzzz for it.
> So that's the full story from the very beginning, since it can help
> newbies.
>
> 1st bug i've noticed in ramdiosk rescue. I firstly wanted to use CF
> card for the tarball storage and the SD for installation, since my SD
> is a 128mb and there wasn't enough.
> The ramdisk said that it found a fat partition, but couldn't mount is
> and printed out below that :
> (/dev/)
> as far as I think that should be /dev/hda for CF
> Had to write the tarball on SD and than delete it via a card reader.

It'd be nice to know what the error was.
I suspect a codepage problem.
You can see the error by using ssh to access RamdiskRescue,
or by watching the serial console (serial cable/cradle required).

[snip]

> > The same bug as with GPE! VFAT refuses to mount.
> here's the terminal output:
> root@AiFiLTr0:~# mount /dev/hda1 -t auto /media/cf
> mount: Mounting /dev/hda1 on /media/cf failed: No such file or directory
> root@AiFiLTr0:~# mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 -t auto /mnt/card
> mount: Mounting /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /mnt/card failed: Invalid argument
> Anyone, help, please!!!
> Here's the lsmod output if that can help:
> lsmod Module         Size  Used by
> ppp_deflate             5088  0
> ppp_async               9760  1 
> ppp_generic            26004  6 ppp_deflate,ppp_async 
> slhc                    6336  1 ppp_generic 
> hci_uart               17568  4 
> snd_pcm_oss            49184  1 
> snd_mixer_oss          15328  2 
> snd_pcm_oss sa1100_rtc              9580  0 
> rfcomm                 35832  6 
> ircomm_tty             21704  0 
> ircomm                 12068  1 
> ircomm_tty irda                  117960  2 ircomm_tty,ircomm 
> ipv6                  264700  8 
> hidp                   13056  2 
> l2cap                  22724  12 rfcomm,hidp
> bluetooth              47196  8 hci_uart,rfcomm,hidp,l2cap 
> g_ether                13906  0 
> vfat                   10752  0 
> fat                    47356  1 
> vfat nls_base                7072  2 vfat,fat 
> root@AiFiLTr0:~#  

No codepage/nls modules loaded.
For me, I use cp437 and one of the iso nls modules (forgotten it's
name).



> > Next was the problem how to transport ipks to the device while
> > running windoze

Once you've fixed your language/codepage problem you should be able to
download to the card using windows pc, then install from card on ipaq.

[snip]


Marcus.