Re: [Gumstix-users] problems booting from CF card

[uglyoldbob <tho...@gm...>]

Is there anybody that has successfully booted from CF that has some ideas?
Maybe I could increase rootdelay?


uglyoldbob wrote:
> 
> I used wget to transfer the tarball. When I look at the contents of the
> dev directory on the rootfs partition everything appears to be in order.
> 
> 
> Kai Howells [Automatica] wrote:
>> 
>> I'm not sure what's going on there - the list of directories at the root
>> of that partition look OK.
>> 
>> I don't know about using wget to transfer the root image over to the card
>> - did you transfer it as a tarball, or wget the individual files?
>> 
>> I believe it needs to be transferred as a tar archive as there are a lot
>> of special files in the root filesystem (like most of the /dev directory)
>> and they need to be untarred as root so that they can be created
>> properly...
>> 
>> On 29/08/2010, at 5:45 PM, uglyoldbob wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Here is some pertinent information for my particular setup. I used
>>> bitbake to
>>> make gumstix-x11-kernel to create an image that was capable of operating
>>> the
>>> network card. Then I used the gumstix itself to do the formatting of the
>>> CF
>>> card (fdisk, mkfs.fat, mkfs.ext2).
>>> 
>>> I created another set of images from the verdex GIT repository. I
>>> transferred the uimage and file contents to the CF card using wget.
>>> 
>>> root@gumstix-custom-verdex:~$ fdisk /dev/hda
>>> Disk /dev/hda: 1024 MB, 1024966656 bytes
>>> 32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 993 cylinders
>>> Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 = 1032192 bytes
>>> 
>>>   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>>> /dev/hda1               1          21       21136+   6  FAT16
>>> /dev/hda2              22         993      979776   83  Linux
>>> 
>>> root@gumstix-custom-verdex:~$ mount
>>> .....
>>> /dev/hda1 on /media/uimage type vfat
>>> (rw,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1)
>>> /dev/hda2 on /media/rootfs type ext2 (rw)
>>> 
>>> root@gumstix-custom-verdex:~$ ls /media/rootfs/
>>> bin          etc          linuxrc      mnt          sbin         usr
>>> boot         home         lost+found   proc         sys          var
>>> dev          lib          media        root.tar.gz  tmp
>>> 
>>> root@gumstix-custom-verdex:~$ df
>>> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/hda1                21076      1288     19788   6% /media/uimage
>>> /dev/hda2               964344    105400    809956  12% /media/rootfs
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 

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