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Re: [ts-7000] TS-7400: Linux 2.6.29 image boot problem

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] TS-7400: Linux 2.6.29 image boot problem
From: Matthew Minuti <>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 08:34:23 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, kailash295 wrote:

> Hello All,
> I have burned the 512mbsd-7400-linux2629-lenny-eabi.dd image on my SD card. 
> However it fails to boot, giving following errors.
>
> $ exit
>>> Booting Linux (using SD card)...
> pivot_root: pivot_root: No such file or directory
> mount: mounting initrd/dev on dev failed: No such file or directory
> mount: mounting initrd/proc on proc failed: No such file or directory
> exec: 49: ./usr/sbin/chroot: Too many levels of symbolic links
>
> and after that it hungs. I am using latest sdcard.o (20708 bytes) module for 
> the ts-7400. I am able to mount third partition (part3) which is ext2 
> filesystems. However I could not mount part4 which has jfs filesystems. Can 
> someone please tell me the fix for it?
>
> Thanks,
> Kailash
>

The fourth parition is actually JFFS2, which although related to JFS, is 
actually different. I found I had better luck working with those card 
images when I had mtd-utils and jfs-utils installed. With those, I can 
use gparted to easily resize the fourth partition, which was necessary for 
my implementation.


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