soasXO builds for USB?

[Jerry Vonau]

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 13:04 -0800, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote:
> 
> --- On Mon, 11/2/09, Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com>
> > Subject: Re: soasXO builds for USB?
> > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: fedora-olpc-list at redhat.com
> > Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 2:32 PM
> > On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 06:16:02AM
> > -0800, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote:
> > > --- On Mon, 11/2/09, Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com>
> > wrote:
> > > So to get up to here I have the following
> > olpc.fth/fstab
> > 
> > So do you need _just_ the initrd definition or also the
> > modified
> > "root=/dev/sda1" to get soas04xo to boot?
> 
> Not really. Just defining the variable works fine, eg
> " ro root=LABEL=OLPCRoot console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 fbcon=font:SUN12x22 rootwait selinux=0" to boot-file
> However, the keyboad/mouse/HAL problem remains.
> It must be an independent problem/missing kernel mapper because if I also have in an SDcard with the same label that has Ubuntu, with this olpc.fth goes all the way to the Ubuntu gdm screen and then again no keyboad/mouse input
> 
> > 
> > If it's just the initrd definition, perhaps there's
> > something wrong
> > with the initrd selection in soas04xo's
> > /boot/olpc.fth...can you try
> > commenting out the line:
> > 
> >    " root=mtd0" " \${DN}" expand$ sindex -1
> > <> if
> > 
> > with a backslash at the beginning, please?
> 
> This just fails boot totally. Never gets to load initrd. OFW complains that there is a problem in line 40 (the last)

Think you need to \ the "then" two lines below also. 

Jerry