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fanoush	2009-01-12 , 10:08
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Originally Posted by tomstratton

Fanoush -

I went through the following steps and got bootmenu to do what it is supposed to do but got an error...

"Boot from mmc13 failed... rebooting from flash"

Ok so something went wrong with the partitioning/formatting/cloning phase. This message shows when your partition on mmc card cannot be mounted for some reason (filesystem mismatch, no such partition, not formatted, ...) or if the mount succeeds but there is no /sbin/init executable in the filesystem.

Could you try to mount your booting partition by hand in shell after system boots like this and see what's really there or what error you get?

Code:

sudo gainroot
insmod <your filesystem modules>
mount -t <yourfilesystemtype> /dev/mmcblkXpY /opt
ls -la /opt

Originally Posted by tomstratton

remove extra stuff? no <-- changed from original instructions in order to resolve boot issue

So this helped to get rid of the wimax error? Did you try to enter 'yes' also with latest initfs_flasher which has keyboard support for RX-48? I'd like to be sure which one helped with the wimax #2 error message - proper keyboard support or removing extra stuff. In theory both could do it (i.e. both are equally unlikely :-).

Originally Posted by tomstratton

this brought up the bootmenu again (after a reboot) and again the D-pad let me navigate and the keyboard let me select and attempt to boot into mmc13

OK so it looks the keyboard works now, that's nice :-)

Originally Posted by tomstratton

$ sudo gainroot
# chroot /mnt/initfs cal-tool --set-root-device ask:mmc
# reboot

Why you set it to "ask:mmc" when your menu items are named mmc13 and mmc12? It doesn't matter much but I'm not sure what you wanted to do here. The 'mmc' id triggers original nokia behaviour of searching for first bootable partition on first card so the result is a bit random. "--set-root-device ask" is a bit better if you really don't want to have default choice. It will boot from flash instead of random mmc partition.

Sorry for not helping you much but at least your problem is no longer specific to the wimax edition now :-)

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Last edited by fanoush; 2009-01-12 at 11:39.

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