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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Hentges Rom Release Candidate

« on: August 08, 2005, 03:58:06 am »

Right, ipkg-link is a pile of shit

The problem was that I left the SD card in (and it had a cardfs installation).  The ipkg-link tool for some reason found the cardfs filesystem on the SD card instead of the CF card (despite the fact I specified /media/cf on the command line).

Removing the SD card before running ipkg-link seems to have solved the problem (mostly).  Hopefully someone else can learn from this piece of advice

Thanks to everyone for help.
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I'll have a look  
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I've checked the script and didn't find anything that could cause this problem
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Yeah, the script is working just fine.  The problem was with the ipkg-link program.  The script ran:

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ipkg-link mount /media/cfHowever, when the ipkg-link program ran, it picked up the cardfs installation I already had existing in /media/card and used that instead of the brand new one I had under /media/cf.  The problem was resolved by manually calling ipkg-link with the same parameters, but with the SD card ejected.

I don't know who's responsible for ipkg-link but it may need patching?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Hentges Rom Release Candidate

« on: August 05, 2005, 02:53:14 pm »

Right, ipkg-link is a pile of shit

The problem was that I left the SD card in (and it had a cardfs installation).  The ipkg-link tool for some reason found the cardfs filesystem on the SD card instead of the CF card (despite the fact I specified /media/cf on the command line).

Removing the SD card before running ipkg-link seems to have solved the problem (mostly).  Hopefully someone else can learn from this piece of advice

Thanks to everyone for help.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Hentges Rom Release Candidate

« on: August 05, 2005, 01:31:27 pm »

Edit:
I took a quick look at the instructions on CoreDumps site. Did you run:
rm /etc/.cardfs_installed
before you reran the cardfs_install.sh?

Yeah, it won't do anything unless you remove that first   I'm back at home now so just about to have a poke around in cardfs_install.sh, at least I can get net on the zaurus here so I'll be able to ssh in and use a real keyboard

From first glance, I don't understand why it shouldn't work.  I'm gonna put a debug in on the line before it calls ipkg-link to see what the params it passes in are.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Hentges Rom Release Candidate

« on: August 05, 2005, 09:27:54 am »

You can use the preinstalled TinyKate to edit the script... if it's working?

Yeah, but it's missing from the barebones ROM image.

Please note that your CF-card has to be formatted with ext2 for this to work properly. If it is do:

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ipkg-link mount /media/cfYou may however have to remove any symlinks in /opt/QtPalmtop/bin that point to
/media/card first, for this to work properly.

It sounds to me like your trying to setup 2 cardfs at once? You will have to choose one or the other... SD or CF?

I'm trying to get it working on a CF card, I couldn't care less about the SD card   I just have the cardfs.bin image on a SD card which is why that is mentioned.

What you're saying with ipkg-link makes sense to me, I didn't quite understand what it was doing till now.  The CF card is ext2 formatted, I just tried the ipkg-link and got the symlinks all updated but I now seem to have trashed something important along the way as OPIE no longer boots.  I'll have a better look at this when I get home from work tonight.

Thanks for your help.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Hentges Rom Release Candidate

« on: August 05, 2005, 03:38:38 am »

Was cardfs installed during the first boot? Did you get any errors?
CardFS installs apps to SD, no pivoting or other tricks there.

I installed the cardfs manually after first boot, using the 'cardfs_install.sh' script.  It found the cardfs.bin image on the SD card and I selected the option to install to /media/cf.

If I browse the /media/cf I can see the installation was successful.  However all the symlinks in /opt/QtPalmtop/bin seem to point to /media/card/... instead of /media/cf/...

Is there some way I can get this all working without having to manually relink all the files ?   Or should I start debugging 'cardfs_install.sh' to see where it's going wrong?

Thanks for your help.

PS. just trying the cardfs_install.sh once more, will send an update if anything different occurs.

PPS. I think ipkg-link is the tool that does all the symlinks?  I think it must be getting screwed, maybe related to the fact that the SD card I'm installing from has a full cardfs filesystem on it already? I'm clutching at straws here

PPPS. This is ridiculous, the built-in 'vi' won't let me edit the shell script without going screwy, I don't have a card reader, and I can't get onto the network here at work.  Giving up for now

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Hentges Rom Release Candidate

« on: August 04, 2005, 10:12:13 am »

Nice work on the ROM Hentges

Has anyone got the cardfs to work from a compactflash card?  I'm installing the latest Hentges T3 ROM for a friend on his SL-5500 (256MB CF card), but I just can't seem to make it work.  OPIE boots up fine but only the non-cardfs apps are available (eg. konsole plus a few preferences and applets).  The same ROM images work fine on my 5500 where I'm using a 256MB SD card for cardfs.

Any pointers as to debugging the problem?  I can't seem to find how the cardfs system is mounted.. is it a pivot_root ? I did a quick scan through the init.d scripts but nothing jumped out at me.