From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from server3.tinynetworks.co.uk ([89.16.176.161] helo=mx.tinynetworks.co.uk) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtOK4-0000fO-9A for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:48:24 +0100 Received: from mx.tinynetworks.co.uk (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mx.tinynetworks.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D8B636105 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:45:14 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=tinynetworks.co.uk; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=postfix; bh=nQq979msUpz8D57p86p9Ej wKoqI=; b=gE+MLTcsyJ5esNOaM9mEsZYnzrfLz+JW717xFwSb4xpO+ab8rWGDc2 b8NaHU/0ad/zm1MFLoZRyOg2wRS93i2r8iSZND3/1tez+thkvhNbuXEzSwlASDig h2XNxGdRNjx1FNluZX5iUX4244H41faHCXXPUsrkDnCy0Rz0of2cA= Received: from [192.168.0.118] (unknown [82.152.154.75]) by mx.tinynetworks.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A91AC636056 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:45:14 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4BA64D16.3070901@welchs.me.uk> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:45:10 +0000 From: Martyn Welch User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 89.16.176.161 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: martyn@welchs.me.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Booting image on iPAQ h5550 X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:48:24 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've had a fair amount of success booting pre-built GPE images on an iPAQ h5550 I've got lying around in the past, so I thought I'd have a go at building an image for it myself and see what the latest stuff looks like. I've succeeded in building the bootstrap, x11 and x11-gpe images (distro: angstrom, machine: h5000) and flashing them onto the iPAQ, but none are getting to a serial or GUI login. The kernel boots and I see the kernel messages on the iPAQ screen and the serial console, with the bootstrap image I see user space running, on the x11 builds I see the Angstrom splash screen running on the iPAQ screen, but they don't show up on the serial console. After a while, on the x11 builds, the splash screen disappears and I can see the end of the user space boot messages. If I plug in the USB cable from the dock, I see some ethernet gadget messages on both the serial console and screen, so the kernel at least still seems to be alive and it shows that the serial is at least working: [ 494.060000] usb0: full speed config #1: 100 mA, Ethernet Gadget, using CDC Ethernet Subset [ 494.150000] usb0: full speed config #1: 100 mA, Ethernet Gadget, using CDC Ethernet Subset Also, if I leave the iPAQ a few minutes, the screen darkens, the screen light can be brought back by pressing one of the keys, so it seems that at least on daemon is alive. But I don't have any method to interact with the device beyond that. The settings for the serial port seem good in the inittab (I double checked in a tar.gz image I built) and the links to the getty seem good (tinylogin). The only thing I can think of is that udev is destroying the static dev nodes and not replacing them. I can to this conclusion because I see "Starting udev" in the user space boot messages on the screen, shortly followed by "Caching udev dev nodes", "Populating dev cache" then "root: mount: special device /dev/mtdblock2 does not exist". This node definitely exists in /dev in the tar. I'm a little lost as to where to go from here, any suggestions? Martyn