After LinuxBIOS Boots: Troubleshooting etc.

• If you see a penguin instead of the normal BIOS logo ג€“ your prayers have been heardג€¦

• No HD, keyboard, ethernet, root FS? Not to worry ג€“ can be sorted out. The main thing is to have the kernel running.

• No penguin? You have not said the right prayers:

  • Connect a null modem RS-232 cable to the first serial port on target
  • Connect the cable to the development machine and start a 115200 baud, 8 bit, no parity serial terminal emulator
  • Reboot and debug

• Create a root FS on the DoC

  • Enable a few more MTD options (to format, write the fs) in kernel, rebuild, and reboot
  • Create a partition (~7MB) in the DoC, and format the fs
  • Change the device that LinuxBIOS expects to find the root fs on
  • What to put into the root fs? See Tomג€™s Root Boot or another tiny distribution.