Booting Without Qtopia

[wiredog]

Extracted from instructions found in this thread.

To boot without Qtopia:
Edit /root/etc/rc.d/rc.rofilesys. Comment out the last line in the file:
<code>echo $LAUNCH > /home/sharp/etc/launch.default</code>
and add the following line below it:
<code>cat /home/zaurus/launch.default > /home/sharp/etc/launch.default</code>

This will allow you to choose to boot either to QTopia or to a console from the command line:
To boot QTopia: <code>echo q > /home/zaurus/launch.default</code>,
To run the console:<code>echo a > /home/zaurus/launch.default</code>

At the next reboot you'll have the selected system.  (Going to have to write a some scripts to automate that.)

Be aware that the console is mildly messed up, in that once you hit the last line it stops scrolling.  This means that commands that return more than a screen's worth of output tend to stop scrolling.  more, ls, ps -ax, and such look broken, but aren't, they've just stopped scrolling.


I'm also going to have to figure out how to do html in the forum.  Not like posting to a Scoop site at all, is it.

[iamasmith]

Or simply comment out the original echo line and don't add the new cat command then remove /home/zaurus/etc/launch.default

What you get then is a 5 second countdown timer during restart. Hit / during this countdown... then either q for qtopia or a for console.

As wiredog says though the console doesn't scroll so everything looks like it is stuck at the Sharp screen until you logon and clear the screen. This is because the 3000 is missing the 'consolecroll' command that shipped with the older Zaurus models.

If you want you can add the 'clear' command to the bottom of the rc.rofilesys and this will clear the screen of the Sharp boot logo so that you actually see the launch menu when you hit /