Just to post status: I've just installed
nalim's kexec-enabled 2.4 kernel in my iliad.
Steps followed:
1. In a CF card with a VFAT partition as the first partition (mine was 240MB partition, in a 2GB CF card) copied the relevant files; the CF card with a pcmcia adapter appears as hde in my linux laptop (seen in dmesg):
Code:
# mount -t vfat /dev/hde1 /media/floppy
# cd /media/floppy
# unzip /tmp/cf-card-contents.zip config.txt images/zImage.gz images/zImage.gz.md5
# sed -i '/^[^k]/d' config.txt
# cd images
# cp /shared/Devel/iliad/kernel2.6/nalim/zImage-2.4.19-rmk7-pxa2-irex1.kexec.gz zImage.gz
# md5sum zImage.gz > zImage.gz.md5
# cd /
# umount /media/floppy
2. The
flashing instructions say: put the CF card in the iliad while off, push-and-hold the top-right button, turn on the iliad and after 5 seconds release the button. Doing that, the iliad started, only a few bars and then it rebooted itself, this time doing a normal boot.
3. After that, in the CF card has appeared a file in the root directory with the name "logfile.txt" and the following contents:
Code:
Flash kernel:
Integrity check on kernel:ok.
Flash the kernel:
-- Kernel flashed OK --
And that's all for today
.
PS: nrapallo, thanks for the links. I did look at archive.org, but settled for the last page which didn't had anything and didn't searched older pages... I will read the ones you posted
. Again, thanks.