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Re: Jornada 680 asks for "root device"



On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 04:42:50PM -0400, Michael Wileman wrote:
When I boot using hpcboot, the booting process starts, until I get

wskbd2 at hpckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
boot device: <unknown>
root device:

It doesn't seem to find my wd0a root setup.

Can you provide the output of disklabel and fdisk and the dmesg information for your cf card? There may be something wrong with your partitioning.

I'm pretty sure the partitioning is correct, but I'll provide these later, just in case. They looked pretty much like the examples in the document, except for the sizes of the partitions. It's a pain to reboot my laptop with the netbsd-live CD, and I am just on my way out the door.

Is there a way to save the dmesg if the boot does not complete. I get stuck at that "root device" prompt, and the only way out gives me a hard reset, so everything is lost. I do not see any wd? messages in the startup, though.

I had assumed the kernel binary would automatically look for wd0.

It does...

Do I have to recompile the kernel to recognize my CF card.

Look at the boot messages. If you see something like:
wd0 at atabus drive 0: <your cf disk model here>
then your kernel does recognize your cf card.

Hmmm... Now that I'm looking at my nada's dmesg, I see the wd0-related
lines coming after wskbd-blah and before boot-device-blah, so you may
actually have a problem with your CF, although rather improbable. BTW
which cf card do you use?

Did anyone else here have this problem trying to install 2.0 on a
Jornada?

Never tried with 2.0. I went straight for CURRENT (3.99.3 at the moment)
on my 690 with great success[1]. You can grab a -current snapshot from
releng.netbsd.org and start from there. Alternatively, I can set up an
ftp with the sets I compiled and use for my Jornada.


I'll try to download the CURRENt sets, but it'd be great if you could set up an ftp with a known working set just as a control. Contact me offlist if you like.

Btw, it's a Sandisk 512MB CF. Both the MSDOS and FFS partitions work fine when the card is plugged into the i386 machine. The MSDOS partition is perfectly accessible from WinCE. I'd hate to think this is a hardware problem.

Thanks,
Mike



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