[Ipodlinux-devel] compiling for mac-ipod, mounting root partition problems

[carl @ allgigs.c. <ca...@al...>]

Hi all,

Thanks to your pointers I am a proud owner of an iPod which is running
Linux!  I've got a few problems however :

I decided to try out building the kernal on my mac, and it worked fine.  I
still intend to try out the x86 toolchain, which i'll do this evening.
However, I couldn't get the bootloader to work at all.  When I reset the
iPod, the apple logo appears, and after a couple of seconds, the screen goes
dark (As in, the contrast goes up to maximum) but is displaying Tux.
Regardless of which button I press, or which order I put the images in in
the bootloader image, the iPod just boots to diskmode.  Any ideas to what is
causing this?  Patching the original firmwire with my compiled kernel
without using the bootloader works fine though.

With the kernel compiled from my Mac, and installing onto my Mac-formatted
iPod, the kernel panics saying it can't mount the root partition (Which I
formatted using newfs_msdos) - I'm (almost) 100% sure I compiled FAT32 and
UMSDOS support in.  However, using the latest pre-compiled for-mac-ipods
kernel from the sf site, it works fine.  I know most of you guys are using
PCs (and I'll be setting up the toolchain on my PC this evening, which may
help), but if you have any pointers, I'll welcome them!

Also, does anyone regularly hang out on #ipodlinux?  The couple of times
I've been in there, no-one has been about.

Regards,
Carl.