5c080 timer understood.

[David Jones]

Hi All

I agree with Oleg on having two boot images.

After looking at Oleg's linuxrc I see now why I
couldn't get the true "pivot_root" to work.  I was
stuck on the /etc/init pid error.  Nice to learn
something new everyday.  Now I have mine for the day:)

Dave

--- Oleg Gusev <oleg@usm.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> On Monday 26 April 2004 11:52 am, you wrote:
> >
> > I've just committed a few patches to make living
> with the initrd easier,
> > and if you send me whatever you use to do a
> pivot_root
> > (the two parts of the script, the one in linuxrc,
> > and the one that gets exec'ed by chroot after the
> pivot_root),
> 
> I vote for two ramdisk images. Standalone and
> cfboot.
> 
> > So if you've got a satisfactory installation,
> debian or not,
> > I'm interested. Could you post it on the website?
> 
> It is there. Old kernel+ramdisk and /dev/hda3 tar.gz
> from the CF.
> /dev/hda1 is for the bootloader (FAT16) and
> /dev/hda2 is swap.
> All together fits on 128MB CF.
> 
> This is my /linuxrc on the ramdisk. Ugly as sin, but
> it
> works (tm). Keep in mind that my kernel
> has "root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc" . Add
> "console=ttySA0"
> if needed. I guess now you understand why i want the
> bootloader
> with the command line. The "exec /sbin/init.fsck" is
> a copy
> of the /sbin/init, because init don't like when its
> pid!=1.
>
-------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "Executing rcS" pid= $$
> #/bin/mount -o remount,rw /dev/ram0 /
> cat /etc/fstab
> /bin/mount -n -a
> /bin/cardmgr -o
> if /bin/mount -n /dev/hda3 /mnt/sandisk ; then
>     echo "Switching root"
> #/bin/umount /dev
> #    /usr/sbin/chroot /mnt/sandisk
> #    cd /mnt/sandisk
> #    mkdir initrd
> #    mkdir -p /mnt/sandisk/initrd
> #/bin/umount /proc
>     pivot_root /mnt/sandisk /mnt/sandisk/initrd
> #    pivot_root . initrd
> #    /bin/umount /initrd
>         /bin/ls -l /128cf
>         /bin/echo my pid is $$
>     exec /sbin/init.fsck  <dev/console >dev/console
> 2>&1
> fi
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> >
> > Finally, I see that you have identified the
> c005c080 device
> > -- congratulations! I suppose 2.6 hacking will
> commence now.
> > Wouldn't you like to separate our files from the
> main tree?
> > We'd put our modified files in cvs.sf.net and a
> script would
> > automatically merge them with a pristine tree
> during build.
> > I'm volunteer to write the scripts.
> 
> I want to start from the 2.6.5 kernel to write a
> clean usb driver.
> The handhelds.org 2.6.1 kernel has also a lot of
> nice things,
> so i'm really undecided.
> 
>  Oleg.
> 
> PS. My CF tar.gz file on .sf.net has lots of non-US
> packages.
>        Don't release it for the common use :)
> Probably we need
>        the script that adds them to the bare image.
> 
> 
> 
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