On 3/29/06, M. Ghiath Khatib <mghiathk-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I tried several ways to boot from the CF, but unsuccessfully. Can you please
> feedback on steps.
>
> First the CF card has two partitions; a 6MB FAT16 one and a ~2GB Ext2
> partition. On the FAT partition I have
> 1. Haret
> 2. wrap-haret
> 3. startup.txt with the following contents:
> set KERNEL zImage
> set MTYPE 341
> set CMDLINE "root=/dev/hda2 rootdelay=5"
> bootlinux
>
> 4. zImage: zImage-2.6.13-hh1+cvs20051221-h2200-20060209195359
>
> On the second partition, I have the rootfs
> (gpe-image-v0.8.3-h2200.rootfs.tar.bz2) untarred.
>
> What I see is that there is a difference in the version between both the
> zImage and the rootfs, do you think this could be a reason why it is hanging
> forever?
Yes, this is probably your problem. You can't mix kernels and modules.
Use the kernel from the rootfs.
> One question: after haret does the screen go black for 10 minutes without
> any character displayed?
Yes, roughly.
Matt
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