Re: [LinuxBIOS] EPIA M-II (CF Boot)

[Jun OKAJIMA]

How about checking these stuff?
  -- Dev node is created
  -- Root dev is properly assigned, path and (major, minor).
But, what you have to do now is gettting sleep.

--- Okajima, Jun. Tokyo, Japan.
> I can't get past initrd yet! VFS: Unable to mount root hde1 or unknown-block 
> (0,0).
> It seems that even though I'm starting up cardmgr in the initrd, which 
> sucessfully finds hde and hde1, upon finishing the initrd (closing the shell 
> or end of linuxrc), the kernel doesn't find hde1. Could this be to do with 
> my 2.6 kernel not having devfs. I have fired up udevstart though, although 
> I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing, the device nodes are being created.
>
> Or could it be that I need to upgrade to pcmciautils - the new pcmcia-stuff, 
> as the kernel is warning me about use of depreciated ioctls with cardmgr.
>
> ho hum. I haven't bothered playing on it tonight, as I've been staying up 
> 'til ~4:30am on this lately and that's bad for my work!
>
> cheers!
> Carl
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jun OKAJIMA" 
> To: "Carl Farrington" 
> Cc: 
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 1:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] EPIA M-II (CF Boot)
> > Gooood! but you can run X? This is the key. And I can not yet.
> >               --- Okajima, Jun. Tokyo, Japan.
> >
> >
> > > I would like to add my name to the list of people who have suceeded with 
> > > the
> > > EPIA-MII LinuxBIOS.
> > >
> > > The VGA BIOS offset given by Nick Barker was no good for my board (Model:
> > > EPIA-Mii12000 LVDS), I had to use skip=786432 as suggested by Jun.
> > >
> > > I am having problems with the kernel recognising the CF device as hde1
> > > though. I am able to manually mount hde1 from a diagnostics shell within 
> > > the
> > > initrd after running cardmgr, so it is available, but once I exit the 
> > > shell
> > > the kernel is saying it can't find hde1.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if Nick used devfs with his setup, but that's not available 
> > > for
> > > my 2.6.14 kernel. I have used mknod to create the device, and also tried
> > > using udevstart but still have the same problem. I wonder if it's 
> > > something
> > > to do with me having all the pcmcia stuff compiled directly into the 
> > > kernel
> > > instead of as loadable modules? Unfortunately I'm quite rusty with Linux!
> > >
> > > Anyway, I suppose this is a bit off topic. The LinuxBIOS seems to work
> > > great, thank you, and big thanks to Nick for all your work on the EPIA M2.
> > >
> > > Oh, by the way, I used Award's AWDFLASH to flash linuxbios.bin. Using the
> > > undocumented /F option. Nick's HOWTO talked about a flash_and_burn utility
> > > which wasn't in the tree, and the flashrom tool just wouldn't compile for 
> > > me
> > > for some reason. AWDFLASH worked, except for some strange quirks. I can't 
> > > be
> > > certain if it was due to bad floppies on my part, but for some reason I 
> > > felt
> > > I was having better success overwriting a good bios, rather than re-trying
> > > on a failed flash. The machine would go loopy sometimes. It all works now
> > > anyway.
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > > Carl