qtopia - kernel panic

syed yaqoob ali yaqoobali007 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 13:49:54 CEST 2008


rakshat hooja wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:47 AM, syed yaqoob ali 
> <yaqoobali007 at gmail.com <mailto:yaqoobali007 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yorick Moko wrote:
>>     On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:56 PM, syed yaqoob ali <yaqoobali007 at gmail.com> <mailto:yaqoobali007 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>       
>>>     arne anka wrote:
>>>
>>>     " Warning : unable to  open an initial console    "
>>>     "  Kernel panic - not syncing : no init found .try passing init= option
>>>     to kernel"
>>>
>>>
>>>     what file systesm did you use on these partitions and how did you proceed
>>>     exactly when installing?
>>>
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>>>
>>>     Hi,
>>>
>>>          I have used vfat for first partition and ext3 for the second partition.
>>>
>>>          This is the procedure i have followed for installing qtopia on sdcard.
>>>
>>>          My  Host PC has  FC 9.
>>>
>>>          1) connected to Neo freerunner by SSH
>>>
>>>          2) Partitioned SD card  :
>>>              fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
>>>
>>>          created a 8 mb partition for  kernel and another one for the rootfs
>>>     which took up
>>>          all the remaining space
>>>
>>>
>>>       Command (m for help): d
>>>       Selected partition 1
>>>       Command (m for help): n
>>>       Command action
>>>          e   extended
>>>          p   primary partition (1-4)
>>>       p
>>>       Partition number (1-4): 1
>>>       First cylinder (1-983, default 1):
>>>       Using default value 1
>>>       Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-983, default 983): +8M
>>>       Command (m for help): n
>>>       Command action
>>>          e   extended
>>>          p   primary partition (1-4)
>>>       p
>>>       Partition number (1-4): 2
>>>       First cylinder (18-983, default 18):
>>>       Using default value 18
>>>       Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (18-983, default 983):
>>>       Using default value 983
>>>       Command (m for help): w
>>>       The partition table has been altered!
>>>       Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
>>>
>>>       fdisk: WARNING: rereading partition table failed, kernel still uses old
>>>     table:   Device or resource busy
>>>
>>>     3)    Got an  fdisk warning so  umounted  :
>>>
>>>             umount /dev/mmcblk0p1
>>>
>>>            redone the step2 again.No error second time.
>>>
>>>     4)Formatted the SDcard :
>>>
>>>          for first partition.
>>>
>>>         a) mkfs.vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1
>>>
>>>          for second partition.
>>>
>>>         b)mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p2
>>>
>>>     5)Mounted the sdcard:
>>>
>>>       mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/card
>>>       mkdir /media/card/boot
>>>
>>>       mkdir /media/mmcblk0p2
>>>       mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /media/mmcblk0p2
>>>
>>>     6)unpacked qtopia:
>>>
>>>        got this two files :
>>>
>>>     uImage-2.6.24+git18+9c058ff0d2641df3c36fc3300acb72078d2c41d4-r0-om-gta02.bin
>>>     qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.jffs2
>>>
>>>      7)Mounted the rootfs on loopback device:
>>>
>>>        export loop=$(losetup -f)
>>>        losetup $loop <rootfs.jffs2>
>>>        modprobe block2mtd block2mtd=$loop,131072
>>>        modprobe jffs2
>>>        modprobe mtdblock
>>>        mkdir   mntpnt
>>>        mount -t jffs2 -o ro /dev/mtdblock0   mntpnt
>>>
>>>
>>>     8)created compressed tarball.
>>>
>>>          tar czf qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.tar.gz -c mntpnt
>>>
>>>     9)Transfer this compressed tarball to the second partition of the MicroSD
>>>     that is mounted
>>>         on the FreeRunner:
>>>
>>>        scp qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.tar.gz
>>>     root at 192.168.0.202:/media/mmcblk0p2/ <mailto:root at 192.168.0.202:/media/mmcblk0p2/>
>>>
>>>     10)Unpack the rootfilesystem:
>>>
>>>           cd /media/mmcblk0p2
>>>           tar xzf qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.tar.gz rm
>>>           qtopia-4.3.2-gta02-rootfs-07172049.tar.gz
>>>           rm -f /media/mmcblk0p2/boot/*
>>>
>>>     11) Installed kernel.
>>>
>>>     mv
>>>     uImage-2.6.24+git18+9c058ff0d2641df3c36fc3300acb72078d2c41d4-r0-om-gta02.bin
>>>          uImage.bin
>>>     scp uImage.bin root at 192.168.0.202:/media/card/boot/ <mailto:root at 192.168.0.202:/media/card/boot/>
>>>
>>>      scp uImage.bin root at 192.168.0.202:/media/card/ <mailto:root at 192.168.0.202:/media/card/>
>>>
>>>     12)shutdown and boot in qtopia.
>>>
>>>         Booted from Sdcard
>>>
>>>     Now when kernel is booting .It's giving  kernel panic.
>>>
>>>     Regards
>>>     Syed Yaqoob Ali
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>         
>>     As far as I know: whan you want to boot fat + ext3 you need to edit u-boot entry
>>     fat + ext2 works straight out of the box (after updating u-boot)
>>
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>>       
>      How do i  edit the u-boot entry for booting fat + ext3 ? Can
>     someone pls provide the procedure.
>
>
>
> Have you tried the procedure on this wiki page
>
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Booting_from_SD#Add_uboot_boot_entry
>
> Rakshat
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I am trying to boot into the NAND uboot menu. But when i am selecting 
the set console to usb .It is returining back to the same menu again.Not 
getting uboot prompt.



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