Chaps,
Many thanks for your kind help. The one thing I hadn't done was untar
the distribution directly on to the flash card. I had, indeed,
untarred it onto my HDD and then copied it across.
This hasn't helped though and I'm still getting similar errors. I am
wonding whether my SD card is a bit dodgy, so will try the one from mt
camera! It's shewing some file system errors just before kernel panic
- I have posted below.
Since I had posted the original mail, I had gone over my bootargs and
notieced things like ext3 rather than ext2 as the filesystem and
changed those. I should have noticed things like that before; I am
guilty someomtes of spending too long a period of things like this
when walking away and clearing your head is often the most sensible
thing to do!
Just for completeness' sake, I'm a long time Linux desktop/laptop user
running Mandriva and have done a *little* embedded Linux, so these
concepts aren't completely alien to me. Things like changing the card
to /dev/sddX rather than /dev/mmcbblkX or /dev/sdcX were not too
taxing. I had already carried the instructions Doug posted almost
exactly apart from the fact that it would never have occurred to me to
untar directly to the ext3 partition on the flash card.
Thanks again, I'll try a different flashcard now and here is the tail
end of my kernel boot messages:
Cheers,
Rob
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<4>mmc0: card lacks mandatory switch function, performance might
suffer.
mmc0: card lacks mandatory switch function, performance might suffer.
<4>mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch. assuming
write-enable.
mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch. assuming write-
enable.
<6>mmcblk0: mmc0:0008 SD 4096000KiB
mmcblk0: mmc0:0008 SD 4096000KiB
<6> mmcblk0: mmcblk0: p1 p1 p2 p2
<6>kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
<4>EXT3-fs warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is
recommended
EXT3-fs warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is
recommended
<6>EXT3 FS on mmcblk0p2, EXT3 FS on mmcblk0p2, internal journal
internal journal
<6>EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem).
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem).
<6>Freeing init memory: 132K
Freeing init memory: 132K
<4>Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init=