Hi everyone, Firstly, let me just say that I'm V. impressed with the work everyone on this group is putting into this. When I first saw one of these things in Tesco for next to nothing I though - cool, now I can do a yell.co.uk lookup without having to wait for a laptop to boot etc. Anyway, with a view to this I plodded off to OpenEmbedded and started playing. At first I manually patched the OE snapshot using David Ford's patches and managed to build the uImage, bootstrap image and a (massively cut down) Opie image. My first problem at that stage was, and still is, how to get the E3 to 'see' the rootfs. Here is what I did:
First I got hold of an old 128MB usb flash card and formatted it as an ext2 fs.
Next I 'untared' the rootfs.tar.bz2 file that bitbake and OE had generated onto this with the result that I had a perfectly readable root fs on the USB stick.
I then created an 'opie' pbl file thus:
write 0x11900000 uImage-amsdelta-20060606090139.bin write 0x11f00000 u-boot-amsdelta-1.1.4-r0.bin exec 0x11f00000
which successfully loads the bootstrap and kernel images into the e3.
At the u-boot command line, I issued the following:
setenv bootargs mem=32M root=/dev/sda0 rootfstype=ext2
and then... on the bootm command everything appears to work...at first.
Ultimately I get stuck with:
VFS: No root yet, retrying to mount root on sda0 (unknown block(0,0)) Kernel panic: Unable to mount root fs on etc.etc.
Please let me know what I am missing, no doubt I have done something stupid. I seem to remember that maybe I need to pivot the bootup using a ramdisk but don't know how to do this...
My second problem is that, having noticed that recent OE snapshots no incorporate the work to date, I set off to try with one of those and rashly deleted my working snapshot... Anyway whilst I can get (with much fiddling) a UImage and bootstrap image built, I cannot get an Opie image anymore :-(. There seem to be many clashes between certain parts (such as bluetooth support) and the newer kernel. Does anyone have a recent OE snapshot that works and is prepared to put it up here?
Cheers all, Wiretrip (Brendan Berney)