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Re: [ts-7000] Unbootable kernel - correct config for 7200?

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Unbootable kernel - correct config for 7200?
From: "Yan Seiner" <>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 14:37:50 -0000 (UTC)
On Mon, June 7, 2010 8:27 am, Jim Jackson wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, cptdondo wrote:
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>> I'm trying to build a kernel for my 7200 with the MAX-197 A/D.
>>
>> The board is fine, as it boots with both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels from
>> Technologic; however, none of those gave me a working CF card.  I need
>> the CF card for my project.
>
> The standard 2.4 kernel from technologics has CF support.
> So I suspect you are doing something wrong.

Hehe...  I know I'm doing something wrong...  The big question is what?  :-)

>
> The CFcard should be partitioned, even if it only has one partition,
> I use the fdisk utility on my linux desktop development machine.
> You then need to build a filesystem on it. If you are going to boot from
> the cfdisk, it will need to be ext2. When using mke2fs to create the
> filesystem make sure you use the -I 128 option otherwise the partition
> might not be mountable.

The problem I was seeing is that many of the technologic modules were
rejected because they didn't match the kernel - even though everything I
had was for the ts11 kernel.  So the CF card was not being seen at all; no
insert/remove event, nothing in dmesg showing it was even seeing the card.
 I really wish Technologic would clean up the FTP site and reorganize it
so that it would be easy to find a kernel+modules for a specific board
easily.  A subdirectory for each board, with the latest kernel and
toolchain that was used to build it would be good.

But...  I'm making progress; I've got a working cross-compile toolchain,
adn I actually built a kernel that booted, even if it failed with the
"machine ID" problem.  I've since found Matthieu Crapet's patches so
hopefully I will have a nice shiny kernel in a bit.

:-)




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