On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:57:40PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
I have two questions:
- How do I enable the E3's keyboard/s so that I can use the ash shell
from there as well as (or instead of) on the end of the serial port?
(I've tried changing the kernel boot arguments from "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8" to "console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0"; I've tried just "console=tty0" and I've tried no console definition at all.)
You need to edit /etc/inittab and ensure there's a line like:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
I believe the default initrd only has a getty on the serial console.
- Now that I know I have a 2.6.27 kernel which works on the machine,
is there a way to load this into the onboard flash so that the machine boots standalone into real Linux, instead of having to use the serial cable every time?
Have you looked at the E3_release_v2.tar.gz tarball in ftp://the.earth.li/pub/e3/ ? It's not 100% reliable, but I've had a few reports of success from people.
J.