 Zaurus Kexecboot-enabled Kernels, Graphical bootmenu for Zaurus |
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 Dec 10 2008, 01:42 AM
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Hi,
the hackers at OpenEmbedded are almost ready to ship a new set of special kexec-enabled 2.6 kernels for all Zaurus machine supported: c7x0 (SL-C7x0 - SL-C860) akita (SL-C1000) spitz (SL-C3xx) tosa (SL-6xxx) collie (SL5500) poodle (SL5600) These special-purpose kernels are small enough to be flashed on NAND and feature a frambefuffer graphical menu for the selection of the boot media. Multipartitioned cards and lot of filesystems supported. Kernel and cmdline reside now in /boot. THIS IS THE LONG AWAITED SOLUTION FOR BOOTING DIFFERENT DISTROS FROM SD/CF Release is scheduled for end of December. Stay tuned! Ant |
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 Dec 10 2008, 10:20 AM
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I tried kexecboot on the Akita and Spitz, and it works great.
I'm going to use this for zUbuntu, which makes it work on at least the C3x00,C1000,C7x0,C860... |
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Dec 15 2008, 02:39 PM
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excellent news indeed. I'm loving the idea of multi-booting cacko and zubuntu!
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Dec 15 2008, 08:09 PM
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So , does this take the place of the boot loader? Can I install Kexecboot plus default Sharp ROM, plus another distro to try without losing the use of my default ROM? (I am using SL-6000L.)
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Jan 1 2009, 07:31 AM
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I have been trying to get the images in the autobuild directory to boot doing this with no luck, is that because the autobuild images do not include these new kernels? If so, can I just use another set of kernel modules (like the ones zubuntu is using)?
James |
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Jan 1 2009, 04:49 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 62 Joined: 28-October 03 From: OKC Member No.: 791 |
QUOTE(nontrivial @ Jan 1 2009, 09:31 AM)  I have been trying to get the images in the autobuild directory to boot doing this with no luck, is that because the autobuild images do not include these new kernels? If so, can I just use another set of kernel modules (like the ones zubuntu is using)? James Nevermind, I had formated the partition ext3. Once I formatted it ext2 everything works fine. |
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Jan 7 2009, 12:28 PM
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Hi,
QUOTE(ant @ Dec 10 2008, 10:42 AM) Hi, THIS IS THE LONG AWAITED SOLUTION FOR BOOTING DIFFERENT DISTROS FROM SD/CF Release is scheduled for end of December. Stay tuned! Any news here? I'm waiting for the update because the existing kexecboot does not boot my Angstrom on the internal memory of the CL760 anymore. regards Bernd |
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Jan 7 2009, 03:20 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 3,281 Joined: 29-July 04 From: Cambridge, England Member No.: 4,149 |
see the ubuntu forum, a number of us have graphical multiboot now. make sure you copy your kernel to /boot along with configs, set up /lib/modules etc BEFORE installing the multiboot kernel!
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Jan 11 2009, 08:51 AM
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Hi
will the new kexecboot support logical partitions on SD cards? Looks like the current version does not support them regards Bernd QUOTE(ant @ Dec 10 2008, 10:42 AM) Hi, the hackers at OpenEmbedded are almost ready to ship a new set of special kexec-enabled 2.6 kernels for all Zaurus machine supported: c7x0 (SL-C7x0 - SL-C860) akita (SL-C1000) spitz (SL-C3xx) tosa (SL-6xxx) collie (SL5500) poodle (SL5600) These special-purpose kernels are small enough to be flashed on NAND and feature a frambefuffer graphical menu for the selection of the boot media. Multipartitioned cards and lot of filesystems supported. Kernel and cmdline reside now in /boot. THIS IS THE LONG AWAITED SOLUTION FOR BOOTING DIFFERENT DISTROS FROM SD/CF Release is scheduled for end of December. Stay tuned! Ant |
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Jan 16 2009, 01:51 AM
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Jan 16 2009, 04:48 AM
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Hi Ant,
QUOTE(ant @ Jan 16 2009, 10:51 AM) Thanks for the hint -- but the question remains: Are logical partitions supported by the current version and It's a bug that kexecboot does not find the logical parititons on my SD card or are logical partitions not yet supported? If it's not supprted I'll make an entry in the whish list. regards Bernd |
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Jan 16 2009, 04:54 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 163 Joined: 11-March 04 From: IT Member No.: 2,270 |
>Thanks for the hint -- but the question remains: Are logical partitions supported by the current version and It's a bug that kexecboot does not >find the logical parititons on my SD card or are logical partitions not yet supported? If it's not supprted I'll make an entry in the whish list.
The current release supports only 4 mmc peripherals (last is/dev/mmcblk0p3). That's why only 3 partitions are seen. The new release will fix this too (tested personally). For /dev/hda, 20 devices are already defined (last is /dev/hda19). Hope this clears the thing a bit... Cheers Ant |
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Jan 18 2009, 02:11 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 163 Joined: 11-March 04 From: IT Member No.: 2,270 |
BTW there is a limit to the number of partitions on mmc devices: 7
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Booting_from_SD * The device nodes numbering schema provides minor numbers from 1 to 7 (/dev/mmcblk0p1 ... /dev/mmcblk0p7). Minor number 8 is the next physical device (/dev/mmcblk1). So we're restricted to a maximum of 7 accessible partitions. * Currently most rootfs' supplies devices mmcblk0p1 through mmcblk0p4. If you want to use extended partitions (5 ...), you need to add those to the udev setup by creating the nodes in /lib/udev/devices/: Regards Ant |
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Jan 18 2009, 02:34 AM
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Hi,
QUOTE(ant @ Jan 17 2009, 01:54 AM) Hope this clears the thing a bit... Thanks, it does . So I wait for the next version of kexecboot. regards Bernd |
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Feb 12 2009, 03:34 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 163 Joined: 11-March 04 From: IT Member No.: 2,270 |
QUOTE(ant @ Jan 16 2009, 10:51 AM) Some newer images (still parsing kernel-cmdline) here: http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/kexecboot/ Ant |
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