Newbie with problems

[Stern, Rick (Serviceguard Linux)]

I think I found the "noautomount" in my search earlier.  But it may have

mentioned it could either be a file or directory - don't remember what I

used, but at the time, it didn't work.

What's really fun is that creating it on RedHat 4 didn't work while 
creating it on SLES9 did.  Luckily I have access to both.

Most of my playing has to be during the day - and I didn't bring 
in the 820 - wanted to avoid the distraction   :)


When I get a chance, I'll add some of my experience to the wiki

Rick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jornada820-bounces@lists.linux.it 
> [mailto:jornada820-bounces@lists.linux.it] On Behalf Of Roman Stanchak
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:30 AM
> To: Stern, Rick (Serviceguard Linux); jornada820@lists.linux.it
> Subject: RE: Newbie with problems
> 
> Okay, I wrote these instructions and now trying to
> replicate them, I'm getting the same error.  Urg.
> 
> I think the problem is with the pivot_root.  Try
> creating the file /noautomount and see if that helps. 
> I'll play around with it tonight to see if I can work
> out the problem.
> 
> --Roman
> 
> --- "Stern, Rick (Serviceguard Linux)"
> <rick.stern@hp.com> wrote:
> > Follow-up - I seem to have it working now.  Here's
> > what I found
> > 
> > The reason I went to fat32 instead of fat16 was the
> > instructions 
> > in the wiki said:
> > "This page describes how to get a quick and dirty
> > installation 
> > of linux installed on your jornada.
> > 
> > Partition flash card into
> > 
> >     * 16mb fat32 -- this will hold the bootloader
> > and kernel image
> >     * 128mb swap
> >     * *mb ext2 -- this will hold your linux
> > installation "
> > 
> > Don't think fat16 vs. fat 32 was my problem since it
> > was starting to
> > boot. 
> > 
> > For debug, I deleted the 3rd partition and did
> > successfully boot the 
> > kernel image. So it was all in the setup of the 3rd
> > partition.  (BTW - 
> > somewhere along the line I did convert over to
> > fat16.)
> > 
> > Originally I was working with RH4 desktop.  I
> > converted over to SLES9
> > and it got it to work with the 3rd partition.  Did
> > one other thing a 
> > little bit differently - I extracted the tar file
> > directly in the 
> > CF partition rather than on the system and copying
> > all of the files.  
> > I suspect that the solution was the RH4 vs. SLES9.
> > 
> > Now I'm playing around getting more used to the
> > environment (Oleg's 
> > version) and trying to start "X" correctly.  (Right
> > now it just 
> > brings up a blank screen but I'm sure that I don't
> > have something 
> > set correctly.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Rick
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Oleg Gusev
> > [mailto:oleg@crista.uni-wuppertal.de] 
> > > Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 5:38 AM
> > > To: jornada820@lists.linux.it
> > > Cc: Stern, Rick (Serviceguard Linux)
> > > Subject: Re: Newbie with problems
> > > 
> > > On Saturday 16 April 2005 05:32, Stern, Rick
> > (Serviceguard 
> > > Linux) wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have a Jornada 820 with 32MB (yes one of the
> > lucky ones)
> > > 
> > > I hope we will be able to put more RAM soon :)
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > I've fdisk'd the card with the following
> > > > Partition 1 size +16MB type b (Win95 fat32)
> > > 
> > > I have fat16 here. Linux doesn't really care about
> > these 
> > > numbers, but wince 
> > > can be confused.
> > > 
> > > > Partition 2 size +128M type 82 (Linux swap)
> > > > Partition 3 (default - remainder of the flash -
> > type 83)
> > > >
> > > > Mkfs (defaults to ext2) of /dev/sdb3
> > > 
> > > Try to run fsck '/dev/sdb3' after copying
> > everything to CF.
> > > 
> > > > (TAR.BZ and zaurus-debian-base-v0.17.tgz) but
> > they have 
> > > almost the same
> > > > directory structure so I tried them
> > individually.
> > > 
> > > TAR.BZ was an older debian for zaurus with some
> > packages added.
> > > 
> > > > /linuxrc: 1: cannoth open dev/vc/1: no such file
> > > > Kernel panic : attempted to kill init!
> > > 
> > > It seems that devfs is not running at that point.
> > > 
> > >  Oleg.
> > > 
> > 
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