[fedora-arm] Problem booting fedora-arm(rootfs-F12 + zImage-versatile-2.6.24-rc7)

[Jitesh Shah]

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On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 05:49 -0800, Indraneel Mukherjee wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying out the fedora-arm(rootfs-f12.tar.bz2) over qemu using the
> zImage-versatile-2.6.24-rc7.armv5tel available at the fedora-arm site.
> During the boot process, the system stops at the console asking for a
> login. Something like:
> 
> Fedora release 12 (Constantine)
> Kernel 2.6.24-rc7 on an armv5tel (tty1)
> Fedora login:

Here is where you enter the default username/password :-)
(root/fedoraarm)

> 
> The GUI does NOT start. How do i proceed to login to the system?

It won't. The default rootfs is not bundled with X/desktop environment.

> 
> During the boot process i observed the following error as well -
> "Starting Udev: modprobe: FATAL: Could not
> load /lib/modules/2.6.24-rc7/moodules.dep No such file or directory"

That is not a fatal error. You don't have your kernel modules installed
in the rfs. 

Jitesh

> 
> I'm launching QEMU with(running as root):
> #qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -kernel
> zImage-versatile-2.6.24-rc7.armv5tel -hdc rootfs-f12-dev -append
> root="0800" -net nic,vlan=0 -net
> tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap0,script=./qemu-ifup.sh
> 
> 
> My host is a 32 bit F12.
> 
> Any pointers will be really helpful.
> 
> TIA,
> Indro