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Re: [ts-7000] Re: Error loading kernel from CF flash (almost there?)

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: Error loading kernel from CF flash (almost there?)
From: Jim Jackson <>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:24:40 +0100 (BST)

On Wed, 30 May 2007, David Hawkins wrote:

>
>
> > Oh, I should probably also mention that I *can* boot using this same
> > CF card ... just not using the new kernel I compiled ... instead just
> > using the factory default kernel loaded into RedBoot.
> >
> > So it's not a corrupt card / incorrect filesystem issue as far as I
> > can see.
>
> Yeah, it sounds like you have a valid CF card then.
>
> So back to redboot ...
>
>  >>> But when I try to load it from the CF card using the following
>  >>> commands (copied from a previous thread which suggests it should
>  >>> work) I get an error:
>  >>>
>  >>>   load -r -b 0x00218000 -m disk hda1:/vmlinux
>  >>>
>  >>>   Can't load 'hda1:/vmlinux': Unsupported filesystem
>  >>>
>
> The fact that this, and the disks command doesn't work would
> lead me to believe that redboot might not understand ext2.
> Is there any way to determine what filesystems redboot
> was compiled to understand?
>
> Perhaps the original poster of this method had rebuilt and
> re-flashed his version of redboot ...

Nope - standard Technologics supplied setup.

To OP what does

 fdisk -l /dev/hda       (or whatever device for a system you can read the
                          cf on)


say. It should print the partition table

There has been a dearth of cut and paste actual output in this whole saga.


 
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