[BL] USB and the digital camera
sindi keesan
keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
Mon Nov 21 22:59:50 EST 2005
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, David Moberg wrote:
> On 11/18/05, sindi keesan <keesan at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
>> David, in case other people have screwy storage devices, would you want to
>> compile a kernel to accept usb-storage as a module, and then only have to
>> recompile the module once in a while instead of the whole kernel (assuming
>> you are willing to provide this service to us dummies)?
>
> http://us.share.geocities.com/davidjmoberg/usb2.gz (kernel) and
> initrd.gz (initrd)
>
> Make sure to use the initrd (with the initrd= option to loadlin) or it
> will not boot.
> You can still boot from IDE disk with the initrd, but it should also now be
> possible to boot BL3 loop with this kernel and initrd.
If the kernel is zimage.usb2, is the following correct:
BL2 ext2 loadlin zimage.usb2 root=/dev/hdb2 ro initrd=initrd.gz
BL2 ramdisk root=/dev/ram rw initrd=initrd.gz
BL3 ext2 root=/dev/hdb1 rw initrd=initrd.gz
BL3 loop root=/dev/loop0 rw initrd=initrd.gz
What is initrd.gz doing? Why does regular BL use it for ramdisk and loop
but not to boot to ext2? Ubuntu apparently needs it to boot to ext2.
> This is only a temporary fix for your card reader to work. The old kernel is
> still available. I will eventually provide a more permanent solution.
Thanks a lot. I don't know why XP (2002) included my card when SW10.2 did
not.
> David
Sindi
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