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Posted: July 16 2008,18:39 QUOTE
Today i started to partition the CF-Card, copied the OS.IMG to the vfat16 partition, and unpacked the sargebooktarball to an ext3 partition.
I also had a swappartition made: 128MB, on a 2GB disk.

The OS.Img booted up, networkcard fully functional, but x could not get started. I only could login to tty1: 'startx': bash: command unknown.

Maybe the ext3 fs was not yet supported, while saying it is, or it is something else.

The knoppix shutdown kill signal is used and works, only the button to shut off doesn't, so i have to take the card out, to be able to shut down the power.

I had hoped to see a graphical desktop, but helas, not yet...
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Posted: July 16 2008,19:20 QUOTE
Why do you want hardware autoconfiguration, when you're making your own remaster for a single computer, especially with hardware that doesn't really change?

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Posted: July 17 2008,10:00 QUOTE
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Why do you want hardware autoconfiguration, when you're making your own remaster for a single computer, especially with hardware that doesn't really change?

Good question!
It is very cool, because it looks very intelligent software that way...but as you say: not nessesary in my specific case...

For now i would be happy to get the root system booting..
The image loads, the initrd works, the kernel and the modules are ok.
It seems that only primary partitions can be used, and that it not boots, because the /etc/fstab and the boot loader
point to /dev/hda2 by default...

So i can do two things: Get the default boot going, or create a new os.img, in which the bootloader points to where i want it to.
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Posted: July 17 2008,10:37 QUOTE
Of course you could distribute your finished pack to other Psions too, so there it might be nice :)

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Posted: July 17 2008,11:45 QUOTE
Yeah i guess it would....
But i first i have to get the rootsys booted up..

I get the same message every time:

Trying to free nonexisting resource <d958e000-d958e00f>
hda: TRANSCEND, CFA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x985e000-0xd958e007, 0x985e00e on irq 32
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: 3915072 sectors (2005 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=3884/16/63
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide_cs: hda: Vcc = 5.0, Vpp = 0.0
cardmgr[240]: executing: './ide start hda'

then i can only login to tty1 as root, no xserver...
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