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

Neil Jerram neiljerram at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 25 23:22:00 CEST 2008


2008/9/25 Al Johnson <openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk>:
> On Thursday 25 September 2008, Neil Jerram wrote:
>>
>> Did you have to change your bootloader configuration?
>
> I had to add a menu entry to the NAND uboot if that's what you mean - see
> below. These are as in the wiki except for minor changes to account for my
> configuration. The sd_max_clk is to try to fix the problem with my SD rootfs
> getting I/O errors, but it doesn't. Both partitions are ext3, and the kernel
> is in boot/uImage exactly where the tar file put it. I did edit /etc/fstab on
> each partition to put the correct details in for the root partition.
>
> menu_9=Boot FDOM from SD part.1: setenv bootargs ${bootargs_base}
> rootfstype=ext3 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootdelay=10 ${mtdparts} ro
> glamo_mci.sd_max_clk=10000000; mmcinit; ext2load mmc 1:1 0x32000000
> boot/uImage; bootm 0x32000000
>
> menu_10=Boot 2008.x from SD part.2: setenv bootargs ${bootargs_base}
> rootfstype=ext3 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=10 ${mtdparts} ro
> glamo_mci.sd_max_clk=10000000; mmcinit; ext2load mmc 1:2 0x32000000
> boot/uImage; bootm 0x32000000

Thanks!  That'll be useful next time I feel like having a go at this...

Regards,
      Neil




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