Openzaurus - Automatically Mounting Loop Fs

[geo]

Hello everybody!

I have Zaurus 5500 and just flashed with OpenZaurus 3.5.3, zImage-collie-64-0-20050407102515.bin and Opie for GUI.

I have Transcend SD 512MB, vfat formatted. I created 256 MB file on it and formatted it as ext2 file system. I can't make the linux to mount the file at boot time. I searched the forums here and couldn't find aplicable topics. I also tried the steps from here:
http://www.olfsworld.de/software/linux/zaurus/
and didn't work.
Well, what I want to achieve is to keep the SD with vfat fs (so I can use it w/o reformatting with non-linux devices) and to make OpenZaurus "see" a file on the SD as an ext2 (or whatever other suitable) file system and install programs on it.

I guess I am not the first one with such question, but... couldn't find working answer till now.
I also appreciate another useful suggestions for flexible usage of the space on the SD card.
Thanks!

[zenyatta]

What does your /etc/fstab look like? And what does output from dmesg say?

z.

[CoreDump]

The only ways i can think of to make this work is :

1) to hack /etc/sdcontrol to do as you wish.
2) to change /etc/fstab and to mount the (VFAT) card somewhere else (like /media/VFAT),
    then call a script after the card is mounted which mounts the image in /media/card

FYI: /etc/fstab is _not_ used to mount /media/card at boot-time. Mounting is done by /etc/sdcontrol.

[geo]

The only ways i can think of to make this work is :

1) to hack /etc/sdcontrol to do as you wish.
2) to change /etc/fstab and to mount the (VFAT) card somewhere else (like /media/VFAT),
    then call a script after the card is mounted which mounts the image in /media/card

FYI: /etc/fstab is _not_ used to mount /media/card at boot-time. Mounting is done by /etc/sdcontrol.
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Same is suggested on the page pointed by the link in my original post. I will play a little with sdcontrol script.
Btw, I found this:
[a href=\"http://www.purple.dropbear.id.au/node/view/97]article[/url] ("Customisation of OpenZaurus 3.5.2 (Collie / sl5500 )"), and particularly the part which explains the usage of rboot (I found recent version here: http://mysite.verizon.net/dfsteen/rboot-3.5.3.tar.gz).
Rboot allows different images placed on ext2 formatted SD to be booted. The idea is that the whole internal flash is copied into the image on the SD and then the mounted image becomes the root - / . You can configure which images are available for booting with a .conf file. Well, seems I have to touch the scripts a little so it mounts also vfat formatted SD. Btw does anybody else have used rboot? Pls, share some experience.