How Does Kexecboot Find A Kernel? Options

[BerndS]

Hi

I still do not understand how kexecboot decides which partition to add to the menu

My experience until now:

I installed Angstrom on the internal RAM of my C760, afterwards Ubuntu on my SD Card and then kexecboot. Then I tested kexecboot and it worked fine : I could boot either Angstrom or Ubuntu.

Than I customized my Angstrom and installed missing packages and after that kexecboot did not find the Angstrom on the internal RAM anymore - it only found the Ubuntu on the SD card. Without a SD card kexecboot stops with

Probing /dev/mtdblock0
Probing /dev/mtdblock1
Probing /dev/mtdblock2
Probing /dev/mtdblock3
No bootable device found


So then I installed Anstrom with OPIE on my internal RAM and reinstalled kexecboot . And voila, kexecboot found the Angstrom/OPIE on the internal RAM and I could boot it. Than I customized Angstrom/OPIE and now kexecboot does not find the Angstrom on the internal RAM anymore.

In all cases I did not change the files in the /boot directory ...

Why does kexecboot do not find the Angstrom on the internal RAM?

Update 11.01.09 20:11

Now I reinstalled Angstrom with Opie on the internal RAM and afterwards reinstalled kexecboot. And kexecboot again finds the Angstrom on the internal RAM. But now it does not find the Angstrom/Opie on the SD card anymore (it does find ubuntu and Angstrom with X on the other partitions of the SD card). I do not see a difference between the boot directory in the ram and the boot directory on the SD card (partition 4; a primary partition formated with ext2 if that matters):


root@c7x0:~$ ls -l /boot
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Oct 31 15:01 image.nfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68 Oct 31 15:01 kernel-cmdline
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 1 1970 zImage -> zImage-2.6.24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1264516 Oct 31 15:00 zImage-2.6.24

root@c7x0:~$ ls -l //media/mmcblk0p4/boot
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31 Jan 8 2009 image.nfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69 Jan 11 2009 kernel-cmdline
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 11 2009 zImage -> zImage-2.6.24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1264516 Oct 31 13:58 zImage-2.6.24


root@c7x0:~$ cat /boot/image.nfo
Angstroem Opie 2007.12

root@c7x0:~$ cat /media/mmcblk0p4/boot/image.nfo
Angstroem Opie 2007.12 Develop

root@c7x0:~$ cat /boot/kernel-cmdline
console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty1 noinitrd dyntick=enable debug

root@c7x0:~$ cat /media/mmcblk0p4/boot/kernel-cmdline
console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty1 noinitrd dyntick=enable debug


regards

Bernd

[tanjian2]

This all sounds very useful and interesting. I am currently trying to get zubuntu and pdaxrom to boot on my C3000 (spitz).
Zubuntu works fine from an SD card. Pdaxrom is actually on the microdrive with meanies magic which boots from nand then pivots to the harddrive.
I was wondering if you could help explain why I can't get the pdaxrom to boot properly?

Thanks