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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ 3.5.1 - Mount / on sd card?

« on: October 02, 2004, 04:13:44 pm »

I haven't switched to OZ 3.5.1 yet, but I have the same problem starting aqpkg. Everything works fine if I boot from internal flash. But as soon as I boot from my SD card aqpkg hangs while trying to read the configuration (at 28% on the progress bar). I've replaced the /proc directory with a symbolic link to /mnt/root/proc, but this didn't change anything.

awaldram: Could you give me some more insight on what the problem is and why setting the link should have fixed it?

Thanks,
Dirk

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ 3.3.5 with CF card as root directory?

« on: August 21, 2004, 06:33:39 pm »

I'm still trying to run my OZ (3.3.6pre1) entirely off my CF card.  So far I've found two howtos (OZ FAQ and OpemEmbedded Wiki pages) which show how to do such a setup on a SD card. If tried the first setup on a SD card and it worked fine on my Zaurus (SL-5500). If I try the same thing w/ a CF card nothing works and I don't understand why.

In my latest attempt I used the script from the OpenEmbedded pages and modified it as follows (changes are highlighted red ):

#!/bin/sh
#
# proot - pivot_root
#
. /etc/default/rcS

vtmaster=/dev/tty0

if test ! -b /dev/hda1 ; then
   /bin/mount -o remount,rw / > $vtmaster
   /bin/mknod /dev/hda1 b 3 1 > $vtmaster
   /bin/mount -o remount,ro / > $vtmaster
fi

if test ! -b /dev/hda1 ; then
  echo "/dev/hda1 is still not a block device" > $vtmaster
fi

/sbin/e2fsck -y /dev/mmcda1 > $vtmaster
/bin/mount -n -t ext2 -o defaults,noatime /dev/hda1 /mnt/cf > $vtmaster

if test -f /mnt/cf/.bootme ; then
   echo "from CF" > $vtmaster
   /sbin/pivot_root /mnt/cf /mnt/cf/mnt/root > $vtmaster
else
   echo "from internal flash" > $vtmaster
   /bin/umount -n /mnt/cf
fi

I've also added some extra outputs (purple), so this is what I see when I reboot:

test ! -b /dev/hda1:  no output
fsck:   possibly non-exsistent or a swap device
mount:  not a valid block device

After the system has been booted /dev/hda1 is mounted w/o problems and fsck can be run on the CF card w/o errors.

Does anyone have an idea why this kind of setup works on a SD card, but not on CF? I sure don't.

Dirk

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ 3.3.5 with CF card as root directory?

« on: August 15, 2004, 10:42:39 am »

I have exately the same problem.

So far I've been able to display the error messages that the "proot" script produces when it's running in the boot sequence.
The mount call complains that /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device. I'm not a Linux expert but it appears that there some
kernel module has not been loaded at this point in time.

It seems that there is no easy solution to the problem. If you insert the "proot" script at a later point in the boot sequence,
you'll probably see the same crashes, that you get when run pivot_root on a running system.

I haven't meesed around with the boot sequence too much, because I don't understand it.  Is there any piece of
documentation which explains the OZ boot process?  

I'm thankful for any hint.
Dirk

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Software / X/Qt Server help needed...NEWBIE

« on: March 23, 2004, 12:45:10 am »

thanks everyone for the help.
I still didn\'t get XQT to run, though. I tried the older xqt-server v0.0.8 and I got a segmentation fault everytime I ran the startx-wrapper.

I think I need do play around with it some more. There must be a reason why this package works for some people and not for others.

- Dirk

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Software / X/Qt Server help needed...NEWBIE

« on: March 17, 2004, 07:34:36 pm »

Hi,
I\'m also a Newbie that is stuggling with XQT, exept that I\'m trying to run it on a SL-5500.
I have been able to start the X server with the RXVT terminal. The Problem is, that the screen is split horizontally, showing the RXVT terminal twice. The stylus doesn\'t work correctly and the screen is only updated when I switch back and forth betweeb Qtopia and XGT.

My first question is: Are these packages even meant to run on a SL-5500? From the little documentation I found about this server, I figured that it was able to run on various Zaurus models.

If it is possible to run XQT on my Zaurus, what do I need to do to set up the XQT server?

I\'d really appreciate any help.
 
-Dirk