[fedora-arm] Sheevaplug and F12

[Andy Green]

On 01/02/10 11:08, Somebody in the thread at some point said:

Hi -

Don't have a sheevaplug but -->

> rtc-mv rtc-mv: setting system clock to 2009-12-31 19:12:06 UTC (1262286726)
> Waiting 10sec before mounting root device...

You don't have to do that.  Use "rootwait" instead, it just waits until 
the root device appears (usually much sooner that 10s).

> EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 179:1.
> Freeing init memory: 116K
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.

You need some minimum goodies in /dev to get any joy.

Here's mine used with F11 on SD Card Boot.

-bash-4.0# ls -l /dev
total 4
crw-r--r-- 1 root root   5,   1 Jan  1 01:04 console  <=== !!!
crw-r--r-- 1 root root  29,   0 Sep 25  2009 fb0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root  10, 229 Sep 25  2009 fuse
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Nov  2  2009 input
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root        0 Jan  1  1970 log
brw-r--r-- 1 root root   7,   0 Sep 25  2009 loop
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 179,   0 Sep 29  2009 mmcblk0
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 179,   1 Sep 25  2009 mmcblk0p1
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 179,   2 Sep 25  2009 mmcblk0p2
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 179,   3 Sep 25  2009 mmcblk0p3
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 179,   4 Sep 25  2009 mmcblk0p4
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root   1,   3 Jun 17  2009 null
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 108,   0 Oct 28  2009 ppp
crw-r--r-- 1 root root   5,   2 Jan  1 01:04 ptmx
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root        0 Jan  1 01:00 pts
brw-r--r-- 1 root root   1,   1 Sep 25  2009 ram
crw-r--r-- 1 root root   1,   8 Sep 25  2009 random
crw------- 1 root root 254,   0 Sep 25  2009 rtc
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root       40 Jan  1 01:00 shm
crw--w---- 1 root tty  204,  64 Jan  1 01:00 ttySAC0
crw------- 1 root root 207,  16 Jan  1 01:00 ttymxc0
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 207,  17 Sep 25  2009 ttymxc1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 207,  18 Sep 25  2009 ttymxc2
crw-r--r-- 1 root root   1,   9 Sep 25  2009 urandom
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root   1,   5 Jun 17  2009 zero

> bootargs_nand=console=ttyS0,11200 rw root=/dev/mtdblock2 rootfstype=jffs2

You mean 115200 here.

-Andy