[Angstrom-devel] [Angstrom-distro-users] CF boot stopped at e2fsck prompt - 20070918 h2200 image

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Joshua,

Sunday, September 23, 2007, 6:50:00 PM, you wrote:

> Hi All,
> I am new to the list, although I have lurked in the archives for quite some
> time and tried a few of the much earlier images.
> I have an h2200 with the april 22, 2006 LAB installed and tried several
> times unsuccessfully to test the new september 18th images on a spare SD
> card I had lying around - I have since determined that this SD card is dead
> (and my only spare), so I switched to CF.  CF booted fine (meaning that I
> got the angstrom splash) but it stopped for an unreasonable amount of time.
>  So I set the pssplash=false and tried again.  This time it stopped at a
> user prompt:
> (paraphrased):
> Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem does really bad things!!! continue?
> (y/n)

  Ok, I finally caught this insanely annoying issue.
http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3065 submitted for it,
workaround committed. We should consider checking and upgrading to
newer busybox.

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> my fstab is below if it matters (my labrun works fine, so not including it)
> ---
> /dev/hda1       /               ext2    defaults        1  0
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0  0
> sys             /sys            sysfs   defaults        0  0
> tmpfs           /var/volatile   tmpfs   mode=0755       0  0
> tmpfs           /dev/shm        tmpfs   mode=0777       0  0
> /dev/mmcblk0p1  /media/card     auto   
> defaults,sync,noauto,noatime,exec,suid
> 0  0
> ---

  I wonder where such an fstab came from? This is not what OE used to
have. (And that wasn't correct either, but now its fixed.)

> Thanks in advance for any help on this (and sorry for the long email) - I
> would like to be able to check out the new images.

> Rgds,
> Josh

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 Paul                            mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com