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[flux]

well ... chero... i was reading "debian titchy vs EABI" ... and as at third post, they forget totally about titchy, and say how EABI is so much wonderfull... i'll follow your advice you gave me before, and reinstall while i don't have to many things running on my new debian-zaurus.

i'm choosing the EABI install with 2.6.23.1  ... have to install UBOOT.
hope it's a good choice !

thx everybody

[ZDevil]

There is a new OESF wiki entry for the installation instructions ( https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Debian...eries_models%29 ) . Hope it is useful here.

[flux]

thx zdevil !
i already knew it, as i followed your (long) post beginning by it, and the other post named 'the wiki, where is it..."

it's right now "tar xpvf armel*"  ... hope there will be no pb while installing uboot

BTW : the link for downloading uboot in the wiki can not work ... the url is bad because of a bad c/p ...   maybe you should update that

thx for the work done on the doc, i'll tell you if there is other pb while following you "Q18" guide.

[ZDevil]

Thanks. The uboot link in Q18 is fixed now.

Good luck and enjoy!

[flux]

hum... it's not in "5 min" that i'll enjoy i think...

i made THE mistake... after booting in emergency mode, at the question "do you want to proceed with pdaxrom installation or boot emergency mode  [y-n] ,  i don't know why i pressed "y"
it "Rebooting" , but since it's halted, my zaurus don't respond to anything. the power -> no light,
press OK + ac -> nothing
presse D+B + insert battery  -> nothing

i wonder where i'll find the way to fix it... in oesf forum probably... but f**k  i had "somethings" else to do !
let's googleing to find the trick

[ZDevil]

Try removing all power sources for a couple of minutes.

Then plug in AC and boot while pressing [OK].

If it boots into the emergency mode, then you can proceed with the rest.

If nothing works, the last resort: NAND restore -> reinstall uboot -> reinstall kernel (i.e. from Step 6 onwards)
And pay attention to Steps 7.1 and 7.2. You need a different set of files for kernel installation.
The good news is your rootfs is still intact. So you don't need to reformat the disk and extract the rootfs tarball again.

[flux]

hum... fn + d + m -> i can arrive at "nand restore" ... but for that, i don't need to reinstall the stuff from trisoft.de and then, redo all ?
with what you said before, it seems not... i 'll try, and cross my finger
http://forum.zaurusfr.org/viewtopic.php?=&p=2559
^^ post 'im reading about this right at this moment

[flux]

remove + ac + plug    worked ... i'm in emergency mode... i was afraid for nothing. cool

[ZDevil]

That's the tricky thing about the current uboot (from pdaXrom).

But for Debian, if you have alreaady extract the rootfs tarball, the kernel module tarball and the after installation tarball, then the rootfs is more or less done.  

What's left is to get uboot and the kernel installed properly so that the machine can boot into the rootfs on the internal drive...

Good luck.

[ZDevil]

There is another typo in the Q18 (just corrected  ): download the yonggun kernel from http://yonggun.tistory.com/57 , not http://yonggun.tistory.com/53

[jpmatrix]

http://forum.zaurusfr.org/viewtopic.php?=&p=2559
^^ post 'im reading about this right at this moment

are you french ?
bon courage!

[flux]

@ ZDevil : in fact, the page you gave first had a link for the good page... i forgot to tell you that... with all this korean characters, it wasn't "easy" to find... but ctrl-f  2.6.23.1  found it well

@ jpmatrix : et ouais, j'suis francais  

sorry, i didn't notice i posted a french link for no-francophone users

[ZDevil]

Yes, the yonggun kernel is korean.  

[flux]

ZDevil :

i booted in emergency mode (u-boot emergency mode)  because of console pb while booting

according to " df "    /dev/hda1  is already mounted on /mnt/cf
BUT, i can't "ls" or "cd" into /mnt/cf ... it makes the zaurus freeze = i have to remove all power and reboot.
i tried to mount or umount /dev/hda1, it doesn't want to (device busy).
what do you think i should do ?

[ZDevil]

Have you already extracted everything (rootfs, kernel modules, after installation) *before* installing uboot?

If yes, then you don't need to touch /mnt/cf at all.  If you choose "no" to the question,
simply do this (suppose the yonggun kernel (renamed to kernel.img) and the autoboot.sh are on SD; actually they should be there):

Code: [Select]

cd /mnt/card
./autoboot.sh
The flashing goes really fast (just a couple of seconds!) and then it will tell you it starts rebooting. Press [2] all along until you see things are booting properly (like mounting the rootfs from /dev/hda1 to /).

And yes, the current uboot has this strange problem. I got it too. And nobody told me why and there seems nothing has been said in the posts. That's why I emphasized that we have to install the rootfs before installing everything else.