Hi Jim!
Thanks for your comments. Sorry, but my linux know-how is still at the
beginning. What am I fighting now is that I formatted the CF at my Fedora Core
3 machine with ext2 and "unbzipped" the debian image I took from EmbeddedARM's
site there. When I boot to the CF card as Jesse told me some boot message
appear saying that I need to CHKDSK (or the equivalent on the Linux side) my CF
card but the program that does this is old and it cannot execute.
Am I doing something wrong at this time or I need to format with an old version
of ext2? If so, how can I do it?
Thanks again in advance.
#Marcus.
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|
| Message: 1
| Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:47:58 +0000 (GMT)
| From: Jim Jackson <>
| Subject: Re: Re: Python and Compact Flash
|
|
| On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Jesse Off wrote:
|
| > > Thanks but I still have a question: what you mean by "...booted to the
| > > CF card".
| >
| > You change the redboot boot script to call:
| >
| > exec -c "console=ttyAM0,115200 root=/dev/hda"
|
| With a usual setup of a partition table with just one partition on the
| cfdisk, the boot command should be
|
| exec -c "console=ttyAM0,115200 root=/dev/hda1"
|
| Though I have heard about people just putting a singe filesystem on the
| whole disk (/dev/hda), I tend to treat them like harddisks and fdisk them,
| with one or more partitions.
|
| If necessary, ou can also boot a different kernel contained on the cfdisk
| by using this load command
|
| load -r -b 0x00218000 -m disk hda1:/vmlinux.bin
|
| immediately before the exec command - remember to substitute the full
| pathname of the kernel file for "hda1:/vmlinux.bin" above.
|
| cheers
| Jim
|
| >
| > Noting the root= option which tells Linux to boot to this device. Of
| course
| > this won't do you much good unless you have a CF with Debian on it. I
| doubt
| > Python would fit in the space you have left on the onboard flash without
| > majorly gutting and removing components you don't need.
| >
| > //Jesse Off
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