HowTo:OpenMoko and Qtopia 4.3.0 Step-By-Step Installation Guide for A1200 and E6

[Chien]

2 Times to try this end up with lost all data on my HD.
Someone please make a full HowTo starting from partition the SD Card.
I'm try this with Ubuntu 7.10 Live CD.

[srk1900]

Hi After flashing this openmoko is it possible to flash my old firmware

[kiransurekir]

You are not flashing, but only testing the release you are not affecting your phone's firmware....lol

[edi_smooth]

2 Times to try this end up with lost all data on my HD.
Someone please make a full HowTo starting from partition the SD Card.
I'm try this with Ubuntu 7.10 Live CD.

You lost all data with your hard disk because sda isn't your sd card - sda is your hdd.

If you want to create new partitions on SD firstly tape as root 'fdisk -l'. Probably SD is sdb, not sda.


I have a problem with running Qtopia/OpenMoko on ma rork e6 - kernel panic.

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount /root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

do you know what's wrong?

[k4misiek]

2 Times to try this end up with lost all data on my HD.

Use dmesg after plug-in your phone to PC...
BTW: cfdisk /dev/sdX or hdX is more userfriendly than fdisk.

I have a problem with running Qtopia/OpenMoko on ma rork e6 - kernel panic.

What do you use kernel, i think file system in your kernel it's not set...?
zImage-2.6.24.1-ezxWM-20080217-e6 from openezx.org works fine with my E6

[edi_smooth]

I used zImage-2.6.24-ezxdev-20080426-e6 from

http://people.openezx.org/wyrm/images/20080217/

here is a screenshot
i think that must be sth wrong with SD card.

[k4misiek]

I used zImage-2.6.24-ezxdev-20080426-e6 ...

Wrong kernel. Get this image:

http://people.openezx.org/wyrm/images/20080217/zImage-2.6.24.1-ezxWM-20080217-e6

And show your partition table on SD card.

[edi_smooth]

Sorry, my bad. I used zImage-2.6.24.1-ezxWM-20080217-e6, no zImage-2.6.24-ezxdev-20080426-e6.

Info about SD from fdisk:

Disk /dev/sdb: 512 MB, 512229376 bytes
16 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1008 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 992 * 512 = 507904 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004b004

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1         592      293601   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2             593        1008      206336   83  Linux

I tried do that with other SD card (bigger), but the result was the same.

[k4misiek]

Change file system on sdb1 to fat16 and untar Qtopia to sdb2(ext2 or 3, what u want:P i use ext2) with -p parametr... this options save authorization own and chmod on all files from tar.

[edi_smooth]

I changed sdb1 to FAT16, untar files to sdb2 (ext2) and still is kernel panic;/