Linux kernel up and running !

Since yesterday I succeeded in booting from a 512Mb SD card and having a new kernel running 2.6.23. I noticed that in the process of preparing the SD card with the buildroot distribution sometimes my ubuntu system had some problems with properly unmounting the EXT2 file system. This slowed down the process of testing a bit. Basically whenever I didn't get the message pop-up "you can safely remove" the card was corrupted. Finally I succeded in using a USB card reader in stead of having the internal card slot. I assume the device drivers of ubuntu are not working well on my thosiba for the internal slot.

Finally I saved my boot arguments into the enviroment space of U-BOOT to always start up from SD card. I configured following files:

• /etc/TZ into ETC-1
• /etc/samba/smb.conf to allow network 192.168.1.*
• added /etc/profile with $PWD to show path in busybox prompt

Next things todo still continue configuring the env eg IP fix :

• eth0 192.168.1.6 / eth1 192.168.1.7
• Adapting my router dhcp settings to lease addresses from 10-30 so I have 2-10 free to have them fix setup
• Configuring belkin access point to fix 192.168.1.5 without WEP --> need windows for it??

Perhaps it's also a good idea when I have a nicly setup ready to try to backup this using Ghost 2003.

So as you can see plenty things to write about in the future.

I changed the color to green to see the effect on black background.