Getting Linux to boot?!

[gRoberts]

Hi all,

I popped back after some time away to find that you'd now been working on linux for the BA.

Course, eager as ever I dived in and tried to understand what I thought said instructions.

So I downloaded all the required files, and placed them into the folders specified, ran Heret.exe and I get our iccle penguine with a thermometer rising but when it reaches the top thats all it does?

Am I missing something ere?

Gav

[gRoberts]

I've got it to get to the Portmap, but i'm unable to login via USB.

Has ANYONE managed to deal with this yet?

Gav

[starik]

it works exactly as advertised on WIKI.

after temp. goes thru the roof and penguin eyes crack, you should see kernel messages scrolling by.

since u don't see that, i'm guessing the kernel cannot be found because u didn't set up the SD card correctly.

post ur SD card partitions (fdisk -l) and also output of ls -lR

before u can login remotely, usb net modules must be loaded (see wiki)

[gRoberts]

I had realised I had downloaded the initrd-3.6.12-hh2.gz and mapped the startup.txt to that file,
so I downloaded the 2.6 version and changed the startup and I got the kernal message.

It goes through the kernel and I get a usb disconnection notification on xp and activesync disconnects.

As for partitions, how the f**k do I do this, because theres nothing in wm2003se that allows you to partition sd cards, and I don't get any command prompt on the linux kernel.

Also I do get an error that etc/modules directory could not be found but the kernal continues to load.

Regards

Gav

[Percz]

I'm just waiting till their is a complete Linux ROM with a portalable WINE port built in so you can run TomTom. Then I'll be happy. :wink:

[starik]

man, you need to follow the wiki EXACTLY. u will not get anywhere by skipping steps.


windoze cannot create required fat and ext3 partitions. the fastest way 2 do this is download a linux live cd

judging by ur level of experience, i say leave this alone, until linux for blueangel matures enough for foolproof installation.

[bernt]

and how do I mount this ext3 partition?
(I can only connect to the initrd-filesystem with ssh)