Re: [leaf-user] multiple partitions => YAFFS

[Tom H. <tom...@st...>]

Forget the last mail please .. while copying the ext2.o I'd messed 
/etc/modules up

thx for helping me everyone!

Citeren Tom Hendrickx <tom...@st...>:

> Thx eric!
>
> That was exactly what I needed!
> to edit the /mnt/boot/etc/modules however .. I tried vi and nano ..
> Both just give a bunch of strange letters and signs
> What's the best way to edit?
>
> Tom
>
>
> Citeren Eric Spakman <E.S...@in...>:
>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> Ok, I see. The doc isn't clear about how to extract the contents from the
>> original initrd:
>>
>> mv initrd.lrp initrd.gz
>> gunzip initrd.gz
>> mount -t minix initrd /mnt -o loop
>>
>> After that you have the contents from the package in the /mnt directory
>>
>> You can take a shortcut (instead of creating a fresh initrd as written in
>> the doc) by copy the ext2 module to /mnt/boot/etc/modules/ and edit the
>> /mnt/boot/etc/modules file to load the ext2 module, after that umount
>> /mnt, type sync and gzip -9 the initrd again.
>>
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>> Hi eric,
>>>
>>>
>>> I used those commands from your link .. namely these :
>>>
>>>
>>> initrd.lrp is a different package - it's a compressed, minix formatted
>>> filesystem. To add or change it's content you have to uncompress it and
>>> mount it on a minix formatted mount point:
>>>
>>> dd if=/dev/zero of=initrd bs=1k count=1500 mkfs.minix initrd 4096 mount -t
>>> minix initrd /mnt -o loop
>>>
>>> Copy the contents for the initrd package to the /mnt directory:
>>>
>>>
>>> sync umount /mnt gzip -9 initrd mv initrd.gz initrd.lrp
>>> ___________________________________________________________________
>>> But like I mentioned .. My initrd.lrp file was way too small afterwarts
>>> if dd if=/dev/zero needs to be used .. From where do I get all the other
>>> files from the original initrd.lrp package? I would think once
>>> uncompressed and mounted , they should be available at the folder .. but
>>> it's empty everytime
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>> Citeren Eric Spakman <E.S...@in...>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Tom,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My previous mail had a link with the exact commands to execute:
>>>> http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/bucd-develop.xml.html#id3256747
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> indeed .. for the making of the image I had to use "dd if=initrd.lrp"
>>>>>  instead of "dd if=/dev/zero" I guess .. So I changed this, and my
>>>>> file is now a lot bigger .. but still 70kb's smaller then the original
>>>>> file and still blocking on the same
>>>>>
>>>>> So I must be doing something wrong somewhere .. I'm not a real expert
>>>>>  at these things, so it's possible I'm looking over something very
>>>>> small
>>>>>
>>>>> grtz, Tom
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Citeren KP Kirchdoerfer <ka...@us...>:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wednesday 26 March 2008 10:56:47 Tom Hendrickx wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Eric
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My plan is indeed to load the packages from an ext2 fs ..
>>>>>>> So what I did was the following:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> initrd.lrp
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> initrd.lrp is a different package - it's a compressed, minix
>>>>>>> formatted filesystem. To add or change it's content you have to
>>>>>>> uncompress it and mount it on a minix formatted mount point:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> dd if=/dev/zero of=initrd bs=1k count=1500 mkfs.minix initrd 4096
>>>>>>> mount -t minix initrd /mnt -o loop
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Copy the contents for the initrd package to the /mnt directory:
>>>>>>> this is the ext2.o file
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> sync umount /mnt gzip -9 initrd mv initrd.gz initrd.lrp
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> then when I try to start the machine to see if everything still
>>>>>>> works I
>>>>>>> get this error: Warning : unable to open an initial console. Kernel
>>>>>>> panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to Kernel.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *and everything hangs*
>>>>>>> ps: it's still on a fat filesystem .. but that's still inside the
>>>>>>> initrd normally so it shouldn't make any difference
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tom
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It looks like you created an nearly empty initrd, only containing
>>>>>> ext2.o - that's not enough.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Start again, mount an initrd_ide.lrp and _add_ ext2.o to
>>>>>> /boot/lib/modules
>>>>>> and load it  in /boot/etc/modules.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> kp
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