RE: Successful boot of recompiled kernel.

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Scott Christensen wrote:

> Are you able to burn the entire EEPROM image via the USB flash.exe program? 
> (bootstrap, kernel & romfs)

The entire thing. ;)
 
> Or do you only do the boot loader with flash.exe and then do the rest with 
> tftp?

You can do that to.
 
> (Is flash.exe for only recovering a doorstop?)

Or for testing new bootloaders.. ;)
 
> Can the kernel you compiled mount nfs drives?

One of the issues with ROOT NFS is that you have to statically define the 
parameters when you build the kernel as I have found no easy way to pass 
arguements to the kernel via the Conexant Bootloader. But the answer to 
this question is, "Yes, as long as you build the kernel appropriately".

> What is the size of the original Actiontec kernel, as compared to yours?
> 
> With your kernel does it still come up and fully operate as the dual modem?
> 
> >The missing piece has been floating around on the list archives since Greg 
> >posted in on 9/11/2003.  Last night I tried to boot a kernel compiled from 
> >the Actiontec source release.  The kernel booted, but panicked because it 
> >couldn't mount the root file system (/dev/rom0).  I noticed that in the 
> >boot logs that the
> 
> snip
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