Re: OpenZaurus 3.5.4.1 Alpha1 release

On 3/23/06, Mark Duckworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually that brings me to a new problem.  I have no way of doing my
> dual boot anymore since it uses /dev/hda1 directly and uses the flash.
> My modified flash was my ticket to booting a disk image on hda3.  Does
> anyone know if altboot will work under a standard cacko installation so
> that my dual boot will still be functional?
>

Get a 2.6 kernel with kexec and kexec your 2.4 kernel. Then you can
boot back into your cacko env. :-) I've been using this to switch
between 2.6 and 2.4 environments for a little while now.

>
>
> On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 01:29 -0500, Mark Duckworth wrote:
> > I defer myself to the RTFM category :-X
> >
> > Sorry to waste your time guys...
> >
> > Though that page on openzaurus.org wasn't updated for a while, I
> > probably should have checked it this time.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 01:13 -0500, Mark Duckworth wrote:
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > > Installed 3.5.4.1.  Works fine with the 2.4 kernel except the suspend
> > > resume is broken.  This is the 2.4 kernel from wayyy back when 3.5.4 was
> > > in the prerelease stages.   This is a spitz we're talking about.
> > >
> > > I dual-boot oz and cacko.  The method I chose is to create two NAND
> > > images, one with cacko, the other with openzaurus.  I modified the
> > > openzaurus bootstrap init to mount "oz.img" on /dev/hda3 and then run
> > > the proper init on there.  This works fine with the 2.4 kernel and
> > > worked fine even after I upgraded oz.img to the new rootfs.
> > >
> > > However, if I install 2.6 it gives kernel panic missing init.
> > >
> > > So I guess the question is, if 2.4 finds it, why can't 2.6?  And where
> > > should it be looking so perhaps I can modify that NAND image.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark
> > >
>
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