Author Topic: Can Zaurus boot from Compact Flash (Read 4657 times)

tonyb · « **on:** May 17, 2004, 01:47:07 am »

Can the Zaurus CF slot be set as the boot device?

Mickeyl · « **Reply #1 on:** May 17, 2004, 06:13:56 am »

Not without a better boot loader. You could look into porting LAB (Linux as Bootloader), which is shaping up very good.

dhns · « **Reply #2 on:** May 17, 2004, 08:24:14 am »

What about using the \"Dual Boot\" scripts for the CF slot?

http://www.zaurususergroup.com/index.php?n...light=dual+boot

-- dhns

Joshp · « **Reply #3 on:** May 17, 2004, 08:47:20 am »

I played around with booting up form the cf card. But I was never able to do it. I think I have to recompile the kernel with the pcmcia driver as a module. And than load that before it trys to boot.

JP

Mickeyl · « **Reply #4 on:** May 17, 2004, 09:52:39 am »

Let\'s get the terminology straight here. If I say booting from CF then I mean having the kernel and rootfs on CF. Everything else is just booting \"with rootfs on CF\". The former is not possible without a better bootloader.

Joshp · « **Reply #5 on:** May 17, 2004, 09:59:14 am »

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Let\'s get the terminology straight here. If I say booting from CF then I mean having the kernel and rootfs on CF. Everything else is just booting \"with rootfs on CF\". The former is not possible without a better bootloader.

I was talking about just haveing root on cf. Of curese there are some down sides. Such as you wont be able to sawp out you cf card for a wifi.

JP

amrein · « **Reply #6 on:** May 17, 2004, 02:32:42 pm »

Use an SD card then.

tonyb · « **Reply #7 on:** May 18, 2004, 07:23:43 pm »

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Let\'s get the terminology straight here. If I say booting from CF then I mean having the kernel and rootfs on CF. Everything else is just booting \"with rootfs on CF\". The former is not possible without a better bootloader.

I have the CF booting, my mini-Slackware 2.4.25, off a pc104 Geode and was planning on using oe to port the source to the arm. Guess I could chroot my 6000L to the rootfs on the CF, but going to look on helping with that LAB bootstrap project also.

Thanks
Hufnus

Mickeyl · « **Reply #8 on:** May 20, 2004, 08:11:03 am »

Great! Appreciating any contribution. LAB on the Zaurii would simply _rock_.

tz · « **Reply #9 on:** May 20, 2004, 12:19:54 pm »

One difficulty is that the CF needs to be online to use as boot/root, which requires the PCMCIA subsystem to be up, but many portions are external programs so can\'t start until Linux itself is up.

Mickeyl · « **Reply #10 on:** May 20, 2004, 12:25:08 pm »

No problem for LAB. LAB _is_ Linux

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