qtopia - kernel panic

[Yorick Moko]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:56 PM, syed yaqoob ali <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/
>
> 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/
>
>  scp uImage.bin 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)