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2008-12-08 , 09:57
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Originally Posted by pycage View Post
I couldn't get it to boot.
The doc says it boots from mmcblk0p3 (why p3?) so I used fdisk to partition the internal card and formatted the 3rd partition with ext3 and extracted the filesystem there (as root).
Thats good, but you should try the latest version. On why partition 3, because you must tell the kernel where the rootfs is and that information is hardcoded when it is compiled. AFAIK it can't changed unless via bootloader or via the kexec mechanism, but honestly I have not played with the R&D rootfs flag and that can be a solution.

mmcblk0p3 seems good to me but is completely arbitrarily, hopefully the new boot selector will take care of that limitation.

Still, all I get is the penguin logo (N800) or no reaction at all (N810).
The N810 is still on Chinook, the N800 on latest Diablo; is the Diablo bootloader needed for booting this kernel, because my N810 shows no reaction after flashing the kernel?
I have not been here too long to know many details about bootloaders, but I remember I read somewhere that Diablo increase the kernel partition to 2MB from 1.5MB, this kernel is a little larger so maybe is being truncated on Chinook and that can be the problem.
Last edited by solca; 2008-12-08 at 10:27.
 

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