[Angstrom-distro-users] c860 kexecboot working, narcissus rootfs on SD almost...

[John Walker]

Hi Andrea

So what you are hopefully saying is wait? Is the c860 included in Zaurus clamshells due for future versions of Angstrom?

I'm desperate to have a workable system that boots from SD.

Cheers

John
On 16 Jun 2010, at 11:10, Andrea Adami wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:04 AM, John Walker <johnwalker at mac.com> wrote:
>> Zaurus c860: I have Angstrom Kexecboot flashed and asking for something to boot off. I have used the online image builder to create X11 based images, and have untarred these to my SD partition formatted ext2. If I use the udev option while building, the booting of the image hangs eventually at usb ethernet. If I use mdev option I get to the root login but it cannot startx. It says "-sh: startx: not found". Is there another command to use?
>> 
> 
> John,
> 
> the fundamental issue is the old 2.6.26 kernel for Zaurus c7x0.
> We can trick and work-around as we want but udev (and other device
> managers) are now requiring modern kernel features, so if even we
> bring udev-151 in shape for 2.6.2x kernels the next release will
> probably break things anew...(we struggle with udev since it moved
> from 0.92).
> 
> BUT I have a great news for corgi/spitz/akita users: the kernel 2.6.34
> boots and two days ago the last big issue for corgi was resolved
> upstream (no mmc/SD detection).
> It looks like even the usb-networking issue could be possibly solved too.
> 
> So in the very next future Zaurus clamshell machines will have new
> kernel as default!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andrea
> 
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