Hi,

I am having the same problem. It will boot, show the screen and as soon as i am going to do something it will reboot. The behavior is always the same. I am trying to boot from 2GB kingston RS-MMC card. I have tried the instructions on both maemo wiki and Jeffus's link but the same problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.....

Have you removed the charger connector? I found it may cause problems in reboot.

yes i have removed the charger. i will try once more to load the os onto the mmc card.

Be sure to use the stock kernel and not the MMC52Mhz ones. I have a 1GB mmc that is incompatible and had the very same problems.

Format the mmc-partition again, as the former crashs will have left it corrupted even though you can mount it just fine

Be sure to use GNU tar, not the busybox one -> it will not copy some important stuff.

If you cannot find GNU tar, first copy the jffs via rsync (this will copy everything but will corrupt opera fonts somehow, dont panic you'll fix this in the next step with builtin busybox tar ...you might have to install rsync before).
After that copy stuff from flash ontop of it (without reformating) with tar.
Sync the filesystems.
Unmount your MMC.
Check the filesystem for errors

rsync -avH /floppy/ /opt/
tar cf - -C /floppy . | tar xvf - -C /opt
sync
umount /opt <- Yes, the _N_ intentionally left out ... If you cannot unmount, cd to another directory ;-)
e2fsck /dev/mmcblk0p[WHATEVER PARTITION YOUR ROOTIMAGE IS ON]

It is good practice to BACKUP your newly created root-image from time to time, as a crash will corrupt ext2 with a very high probability -> Insert MMC into cardreader on linux desktop, mount boot partition and "tar" it away to a safe place.

okay, i have got the GNU tar from the internet. When i am trying to install it it's saying that it's incompatible.