Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

[Olivier Berger]

Olivier Berger <oberger at ouvaton.org> writes:

> "Yorick Moko" <yorickmoko at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> a tar.gz file would be very useful for booting from SD card...
>>
>
> I guess you may convert the contents of the JFFS2 to a tarball by
> following bits explained here :
> http://maemo.org/community/wiki/ModifyingRootImage/
>
> In particular somthing like this on a desktop GNU/Linux (if you run
> 2.6 kernel) :
>
> mknod /tmp/mtdblock0 b 31 0
> modprobe loop
> losetup /dev/loop0 Om2008.8.rootfs.jffs2
> modprobe mtdblock
> modprobe block2mtd
> echo "/dev/loop0" > /sys/module/block2mtd/parameters/block2mtd
> modprobe jffs2
> mount -t jffs2 /tmp/mtdblock0 /media/jffs2
>
> USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISKS ;)
>

I've just tried and install it like that on the SD's ext3 partition,
and copied the kernel to the first partition (VFAT).

But after booting, I'm stuck with a :
Kernel panic - not syncing: No int found. Try passing init= option to
kernel.

Too bad :( I'll have to flash ?

Best regards,
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Olivier BERGER 
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