[ts-7000] TS7800 Lenny Install to MTD Fails to load devices

["eric.robishaw" <>]

I finally can get Lenny to boot from MTD flash nearly correctly (see steps 
below)

However, when I boot up, my device nodes are not properly populated (no 
/dev/ttts0, ttts1, etc...)

BUT, if I first boot into fastboot, then EXIT, and lenny loads from MTD, all my 
devices are present.

How do I bypass the fastboot (use linuxrc-mtdroot) AND get all the device nodes 
to load?


Here are the steps I took to get Lenny going:

1) dd 512mbsd-latest.dd to /dev/sdb
2) Ungzipp, untar the lenny distro
3) Mkfs.ext3 on partition 4
4) Copyied the leny distro to partition 4
5) Rebooted w/ SD Card
6) Setup everything in lenny as needed

Now, to copy to the MTD, b/c I cannot use Createmtdroot I manually copy all the 
files over: (Kris Bahnsen at TS gave me these instructions)

7) on host pc, create directory initrd on the 4th partition of SD Card

fastboot and then ...
8) mount /dev/mtdblock3 /mnt/host
9) rm -rf /mnt/host/* 
10) rm  -rf /mnt/host/dev/.udev
11) cp -ar /mnt/root/* /mnt/host
12) umount /mnt/host


I think my problem is related to step 7 above... there must be more to it than 
just creating a 'initrd' directory... not sure what that accomplishes.  

I am SO VERY CLOSE to being done I can taste it: everything works GREAT when I 
do not bypass the fastboot.

Thanks,
Fastboot-only Eric







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