[wplug] Iopener

[Doug Green]

On 11/24/02 12:48 AM, "Ivan Jager" <ivanj at terere.res.cmu.edu> wrote:

> On 2002.11.22 23:55 Doug Green wrote:
>> 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...
> 
> It looks like you are getting the wrong name for the partition. According to
> fdisk partition type 0x4f is "QNX4.x 3rd part". So my guess is that (hd0,0) is
> actually the flash memory or whatever it normally boots QNX from, and that the
> hard drive you added would be called something else. Try going into grub's
> command line and type:
> find /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
> to find out what partition the kernel is really on.
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It says it's on (hd0,0). I forgot to mention that this iOpener is a Winchip,
but the install was performed on a Celeron. Will this make a difference?