[FDOM] Booting from SD, unable to open an initial console

[Al Johnson]

On Thursday 25 September 2008, Neil Jerram wrote:
> 2008/9/24 Neil Jerram <neiljerram at googlemail.com>:
> > 2008/9/24 Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com>:
> >> You can get this excitement if your SD card was mounted with "nodev" at
> >> unpack as well, usually that is complaining about no /dev/pts/* or other
> >> valid /dev bits needed.
> >
> > Thanks.  I checked that at the time, though (because the Wiki covers
> > it), and it didn't have nodev.
> >
> > I'll try Bill's -p, and report back.
>
> It didn't help.  As just noted in another message, -p is on by default for
> root.
>
> After a few more experiments, I noticed that in the FDOM
> rootfs.tar.gz, all files have owner and group "mutrox".  So in fact -p
> is wrong anyway, and one should use -o, so that the unpacked files are
> owned by root.
>
> That said, -o still didn't solve my problem.
>
> > (Another factor that may be relevant is that I did the unpacking on
> > the FR, from within Qtopia - which means that I was using the Busybox
> > implementation of tar.  Perhaps I also need to make sure that I'm
> > using a proper tar?)
>
> I have been using full GNU tar today.  No difference, apparently.
>
> I'm pretty much giving up...  If anyone else manages to install FDOM
> on SD, and boot from it, please let us know know!

I did it at the end of last week. Don't remember exactly what I did but it 
didn't cause me any problems. I'm using the kernel from /boot on the SD.