Freerunner (GTK2007.2) has suddenly become unbootable

[Jim Colton]

Read the Wiki:  http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Booting_from_SD

Make sure the kernel you're using has ext3 built into it.  Using ext2 has
been suggested for the microSD because it will wear it less.  In that case
be sure ext2 is in the kernel.  I know the kernel from 7-22-2008 has ext2
support in it.

Jim

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:00 PM, casaubon <jputhoff at wisc.edu> wrote:

>
>
> Niccolo Rigacci wrote:
> >
> > I got the same problem, solved flashing a kernel image via the
> > U-Boot menu. Here my notes (in Italian, sorry):
> >
> http://www.rigacci.org/wiki/doku.php/doc/appunti/hardware/freerunner#flashing_del_kernel
> >
> > I got the missing kernel image (uImage-<something>.bin) from the
> > http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily/freerunner/
> > and followed the instruction here:
> > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Flashing_Openmoko
> >
> > Remember also to copy the image file into /boot/ once you can ssh
> > the Neo again.
> >
> > --
> > Niccolo Rigacci
> >
>
> Thanks for the help, but I am still having problems. I followed the
> instructions here:
>
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Boot_from_sd_card
>
> to partition, format and populate my SD card with the uImage and rootfs
> found here:
>
> http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Freerunner/
>
> The phone begins to boot, but fails with a kernel panic. The last lines it
> spits out are:
>
> ***************************
> VFS:cannot open root device "mmcblk0p2" or unknown block(179,2)
> please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
> partitions:
> 1f00   2048   mtdblock0 (driver?)
>
> (...)
>
> b300   495488 mmcblk0 driver: mmcblk
>  b301 8536   mmcblk0p1
>  b302 486864 mmcblk0p1
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(179,2)
> ***************************
>
> "mmcblk0p2" is the ext3 partition on the SD card with the .jjfs2 file in
> it.
> Does anyone know why the filesystem on my sd card does not mount properly?
>
> (sigh)
>
> jon
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