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Title: Can Zaurus boot from Compact Flash
Post by: tonyb on May 17, 2004, 01:47:07 am

Can the Zaurus CF slot be set as the boot device?

Title: Can Zaurus boot from Compact Flash
Post by: Mickeyl on May 17, 2004, 06:13:56 am

Not without a better boot loader. You could look into porting LAB (Linux as Bootloader), which is shaping up very good.

Title: Can Zaurus boot from Compact Flash
Post by: dhns on May 17, 2004, 08:24:14 am

What about using the \"Dual Boot\" scripts for the CF slot?

http://www.zaurususergroup.com/index.php?n...light=dual+boot (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=1510&highlight=dual+boot)

-- dhns

Title: Can Zaurus boot from Compact Flash
Post by: Joshp on May 17, 2004, 08:47:20 am

I played around with booting up form the cf card.  But I was never able to do it.  I think I  have to recompile the kernel with the pcmcia driver as a module.  And than load that before it trys to boot.

JP

Title: Can Zaurus boot from Compact Flash
Post by: Mickeyl on May 17, 2004, 09:52:39 am

Let\'s get the terminology straight here. If I say booting from CF then I mean having the kernel and rootfs on CF. Everything else is just booting \"with rootfs on CF\". The former is not possible without a better bootloader.

Title: Can Zaurus boot from Compact Flash
Post by: Joshp on May 17, 2004, 09:59:14 am

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Let\'s get the terminology straight here. If I say booting from CF then I mean having the kernel and rootfs on CF. Everything else is just booting \"with rootfs on CF\". The former is not possible without a better bootloader.

I was talking about just haveing root on cf.  Of curese there are some down sides.  Such as you wont be able to sawp out you cf card for a wifi.  

JP

Title: Can Zaurus boot from Compact Flash
Post by: amrein on May 17, 2004, 02:32:42 pm

Use an SD card then.

Title: Can Zaurus boot from Compact Flash
Post by: tonyb on May 18, 2004, 07:23:43 pm

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Let\'s get the terminology straight here. If I say booting from CF then I mean having the kernel and rootfs on CF. Everything else is just booting \"with rootfs on CF\". The former is not possible without a better bootloader.

I have the CF booting, my mini-Slackware 2.4.25, off a pc104 Geode and was planning on using oe to port the source to the arm.  Guess I could chroot my 6000L to the rootfs on the CF, but going to look on helping with that LAB bootstrap project also.

Thanks
Hufnus

Title: Can Zaurus boot from Compact Flash
Post by: Mickeyl on May 20, 2004, 08:11:03 am

Great! Appreciating any contribution. LAB on the Zaurii would simply _rock_.

Title: Can Zaurus boot from Compact Flash
Post by: tz on May 20, 2004, 12:19:54 pm

One difficulty is that the CF needs to be online to use as boot/root, which requires the PCMCIA subsystem to be up, but many portions are external programs so can\'t start until Linux itself is up.

Title: Can Zaurus boot from Compact Flash
Post by: Mickeyl on May 20, 2004, 12:25:08 pm

No problem for LAB. LAB _is_ Linux