[wplug] Iopener

Vanco, Donald VANCOD at PIOS.com
Sat Nov 23 18:53:29 EST 2002


(appologies up front for email format and spelin - I'm on a crippled web
interface)

Random thoughts: (not having an iOpener to bang on)
Any chance there's an initrd image needed that didn't get created?

Any luck with trying to break into grub and boot single mode? (looks like no
given the partition stuff in the eeror)

Did you happen to hop over to any of the alternate console during the RH
install to see if everything was OK? (F3=installer output, F4=kernel output,
F5=mkfs and grub output)

You can run the 8.0 install again, selecting an upgrade and it won't over
write anything and then you can see what's going on.  Alternately, you can
simply install again - because an upgrade can take just as long as the
installer takes the time to examine the currently installed RPMs.  Alternate
console will also give you the opportunity to check initrd.

When you say "loaded RH8.0 on a laptop drive" - is that to say that you
loaded it while in a laptop and then moved it to the iOpener, or you
installed with it in the iOpener intact?  That _could_ certainly make a
difference (particualrly if the installed kernel doesn't come close to the
one required by the iOpener {e.g. the laptop was AMD based}) Is the iOpener
MediaGX or Cyrix or something?  You'll need the i386 kernel installed.
Could be other (support) chipset issues afoot to.  Of course, if it
installed on the iOpener it should certainly boot on the iOpener

..always wanted to mess with one of these - missed the deal when they were
$99, never willing to pay the inflamed prices on eBay....

YMMV
Don

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Green
To: wplug at wplug.org
Sent: 11/22/02 11:55 PM
Subject: [wplug] Iopener

Hi all-
I have a quick question regarding linux on an iOpener. I converted it
for a
harddrive with a custom IDE cable, and it has a bios that supposedly
will
work for this modification. Here is the problem:
It loads GRUB (I installed RedHat 8.0 on a laptop drive) but when it
tries
to boot the image, it chokes. It then tries to reboot... As nauseum.

The error screen flies by really fast, but by changing the boot hd0,0 to
hd1,0 I managed to confuse it enough to copy down the following error
before
it reboots:

 
| Booting command-list
| 
| Root (hd0,0)
|  Filesystem type unkown, partition type 0x4f
| Kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
| 
| Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
| 
| Press any key to continue...

The fact that it even loads Grub tells me it's booting from the drive,
but
does anyone have any ideas of why it chokes on the "real boot"... ??

Any ideas greatly appreciated,
Doug


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