Problem with neo1973 : kernel panic

Lorn Potter lpotter at trolltech.com
Fri Dec 21 20:52:29 CET 2007


On Saturday 22 December 2007, Nils Faerber wrote:
> Marcelo CHAPARRO schrieb:
> > hello,
>
> Hi!
>
> > I just recieved my mobile neo1973 openmoko. But since the first start,
> > when the kernel is launching a error message appears on the screen :
> > Kernel panik, no sincing : Not init found. Try passing init=option to
> > kernel.
> > How can I solve this problem ?
> > Do I have to send the mobile back ? Or have you any solution to
> > reinstall a new kernel ?
> > Thank you very much for your help !!!
> > marcelochaparrox at gmail.com <mailto:marcelochaparrox at gmail.com>
>
> Hmm... sounds like the root filesystem got corrupted.

The neo does not currently ship with a root filesystem on it.

> You could try to reflash a valid filesystem.
> First look at
> 	http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Dfu-util
> for instructions for reflashing.
> Then dowload the appropriate file from
>
> http://buildhost.openmoko.org/OM2007.2/tmp/deploy/glibc/images/neo1973/
>
> I think this is the location of the latest public ready made build.
> Download the file
> 	openmoko-image-fic-gta01.jffs2
>
> and flash this using dfu-util as the root filesystem.
> This should hopefully do the trick, good luck!
>
> > Marcelo
>
> Cheers
>   nils faerber



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Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Software Engineer, Systems Group, MES, Trolltech



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