 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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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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>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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ant Zaurus Kexecboot-enabled Kernels Dec 10 2008, 01:42 AM
cortez I tried kexecboot on the Akita and Spitz, and it w... Dec 10 2008, 10:20 AM speculatrix excellent news indeed. I'm loving the idea of ... Dec 15 2008, 02:39 PM the_oak So , does this take the place of the boot loader? ... Dec 15 2008, 08:09 PM nontrivial I have been trying to get the images in the autobu... Jan 1 2009, 07:31 AM
nontrivial QUOTE(nontrivial @ Jan 1 2009, 09:31 AM) ... Jan 1 2009, 04:49 PM BerndS Hi,
QUOTE(ant @ Dec 10 2008, 10:42 AM) H... Jan 7 2009, 12:28 PM speculatrix see the ubuntu forum, a number of us have graphica... Jan 7 2009, 03:20 PM BerndS Hi
will the new kexecboot support logical partiti... Jan 11 2009, 08:51 AM BerndS Hi,
QUOTE(ant @ Jan 17 2009, 01:54 AM) H... Jan 18 2009, 02:34 AM ant QUOTE(ant @ Jan 16 2009, 10:51 AM) ToDo i... Feb 12 2009, 03:34 AM ant Latest 2.6.26 and beta 2.6.33-rc6 images here: ht... Feb 12 2010, 10:26 AM klaxon QUOTE(ant @ Feb 12 2010, 08:26 PM) Latest... Feb 13 2010, 03:18 AM ant >I still can't boot Cacko from NAND with my... Feb 17 2010, 07:35 AM klaxon SL-C1000 and newer models have also a 2.4 kernel. ... Oct 14 2010, 03:07 PM xamindar QUOTE(klaxon @ Oct 14 2010, 04:07 PM) SL-... Oct 14 2010, 05:05 PM klaxon QUOTE(xamindar @ Oct 15 2010, 02:05 AM) Q... Oct 15 2010, 01:06 AM ant Hi,
new roundup of linux-kexecboot 2.6.2x kernels... Oct 26 2010, 01:26 AM xamindar Great to see this is still being worked on. Did th... Oct 30 2010, 11:52 AM xamindar Ok, I hope the person who made this kernel is read... Oct 30 2010, 12:33 PM ant QUOTE(xamindar @ Oct 30 2010, 09:33 PM) O... Nov 2 2010, 03:20 AM xamindar QUOTE(ant @ Nov 2 2010, 04:20 AM) Purpose... Nov 2 2010, 10:29 AM ant Hello,
I've uploaded the 2.6.36 versions.
Kex... Nov 2 2010, 03:12 AM xamindar Also, what size is the icon.xpm supposed to be? Nov 2 2010, 11:41 AM xamindar GAH! Forget it. I copied the image.nfo file ov... Nov 2 2010, 12:13 PM koan Hi Xamindar,
I think you should take a break and ... Nov 2 2010, 02:42 PM xamindar QUOTE(koan @ Nov 2 2010, 03:42 PM) Hi Xam... Nov 2 2010, 06:02 PM koan QUOTE(xamindar @ Nov 3 2010, 12:02 PM) Th... Nov 3 2010, 02:40 AM ant Please download an image for your Zaurus at http:/... Nov 2 2010, 04:59 PM ant Update 2013:
note there is a decently updated set... Feb 18 2013, 08:48 AM koan I missed this when you posted it. I hope to try it... Mar 11 2013, 03:58 AM InSearchOf wow, you guys are still around!
Late Apr 12 2013, 05:41 AM speculatrix QUOTE(InSearchOf @ Apr 12 2013, 01:41 PM)... Apr 12 2013, 07:05 AM InSearchOf I've moved on to become an Apple Fanboy. I do ... Apr 12 2013, 11:05 AM Meanie QUOTE(InSearchOf @ Apr 13 2013, 05:05 AM)... Apr 22 2013, 10:08 PM dougeeebear I'm still kicking.. I check this site out from... Apr 28 2013, 07:59 AM sdjf Hey, I'm still using both my sl5500 and sl6000... May 4 2013, 08:23 PM |
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