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Help w Midori (modified 0 times) s4vol Profile Hi, I tried searching the archives for the Midori list and all 3 i-opener lists but cannot seem to find a solution to my problem. I have a i-opener, not sure which version. It has a Rise 266 chip and I installed 256K ram in it. I was able to get the epoxy off the BIOS rom, burned wild-pencil 5.4 BIOS onto it, and successfully installed Win98SE using a small hard disk. Now I want to install Midori. I got all three distributions available at http://m4i.homeip.net/, got myself a copy of dolly, and flashed a Midori image onto the flash under DOS. I then removed the hard disk and boot from the flash. Every image I tried, I have Midori come up, says it is loading Midori, then it complained about "/tmp/loop30 no such device" and "packcramfs unable to open the loopback device." When that happens, it dumps me into the shell. I do a "ls -l /tmp" and can see /tmp/loop30 with something like "brw------- root 7,30" as attributes. Based on some archived discussions, I tried to format the flash as a DOS drive first and then use dolly to clone the image. Doesn't seem to make any difference. Looks to me like loop30 has not been created properly. Can any one explain/help me with this? Thanks. 12-29-2002 01:33:06

RE:Help w Midori - Midori Boot Problems (Installation Steps) (modified 0 times) Adrenolin Profile | Email The post below was submitted under the 'Midor Linux General Board' section. If you can comment please post there. Hello, Let me apologize in advance for the length of this post. I felt it important to supply all details as I'm currently at a loss for ideas. Background and Steps Followed: I've successfully installed Midori Linux onto a V5 IO but it refuses to install correctly on 3 other V5 systems (all 4 units were new and unused). After flashing the BIOS chips with a BadFlash v5.40 image I installed a 6Gig Fujitsu laptop hard drive running MS-DOS 6.2 freshly installed. This disk included dolly and m4i-2.2pre1.img which I saved as midori.img. Both files had been downloaded directly to the hard drive and unmodified once saved to disk. Booting the first V5 IO I saw the V5.40 BIOS, Primary IDE Master was the hard drive and the Secondary IDE Slave was the SanDisk. BIOS settings had been set to AUTO detect both and to boot from 'C Only'. DOS started fine and gave me a prompt. I then ran fdisk, switched to the SanDisk, removed the partitions, create a new DOS partition and rebooted. After this I ran: "dolly midori.img hd129: /c" which completed fine. At this point I shutdown the IO, removed the hard drive and cable and restarted it. It booted and listed 'none' as Master IDE and the SanDisk as the Slave IDE. It continued to boot through displaying the Midori bootup, heard sound initialize and then X started up! WooHoo Its Alive!! Checked ctl-alt-F4 and ctl-alt-F1 which gave no errors. DHCP worked great and I was able to statically assign an IP and everything works perfect. Note here that I have reflashed the BIOS chip in this unit again after this install to the current V5.40a BadFlash BIOS version and it continues to run perfectly. I was able to stream MP3s over the network for a 24hour period without any problems. The Problem: OK so the first IO is up and running perfectly and was very smooth to install. The problem now is that I've followed the exact same proceedure for 3 other identical V5 IOs and they all end in failure. Dolly seems to copy the image fine and says it completed successfully. I then reboot the IO (removing the hard drive and cable as before) only to have the Midori boot proceedure screwup with errors ('/tmp/loop30: No such device' is the first) leaving me at a prompt. I have attempted a number of different 'solutions' found on this BBS without success. I have replaced the flashed V5.40 with a flashed V5.40a and with an original V5.40a chip from BadFlash, swapped out IDE cables and have run Dolly with the /c switch and without. I've also redownloaded the dolly program and the Midori image to a different directory and tried those. I've formatted the hard drive, reinstalled DOS and downloaded dolly and the Midori image again. I've run fdisk with the /mbr switch, checked the md5sums of the images, run scandisk on both the hard drive and SanDisk and still nothing is working! I dont know what to try next! Here is the Midori Boot sequence with errors: Starting init (return here with ctl-alt-F1)... Fixing USB by tweaking PCI registers... Mounting RW filesystems... Building devpts... Creating loopback interfaces... Mounting usr partition... /tmp/loop30: No such device packcramfs: error opening loopback device Thawing config partition to /tmp/config... /tmp/loop30: No such device packcramfs: error opening loopback device /tmp/loop30: No such device packcramfs: error opening loopback device Setting timezone... Starting logd (use ctl-alt-F4 to see it)... Starting network... .: Can't open /tmp/config/network /sbin/portmap: error in loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Loading hardware monitoring modules (run 'sensors' to see values)... /sbin/init: /usr/bin/sensors: No such file or directory spawming shell (return to root shell with ctl-alt-F1)... BusyBox v0.60.2 () Built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. #_ Again, this has worked on 1 system perfectly and failed on 3 others all of which are new/unused V5s with no other changes or modifications except for the BIOS. If anyone can offer any suggestions I'd appreciate it muchly! Thanks, Adrenolin i-opener@irchottub.net 01-29-2003 01:32:10

RE:Help w Midori (modified 0 times) Adrenolin Profile | Email This has been resolved and updated in the "Midor Linux General Board". See the 'there' link above. 02-01-2003 22:11:26

RE:Help w Midori (modified 0 times) ravic Profile I am having the exact same issue. It keeps saying "no loopback device". Is there anyway to fix this via DOS. 02-27-2003 17:49:38

RE:Help w Midori (modified 0 times) Adrenolin Profile | Email ravic, the problem I had was that for some reason DOS was not able to use all the space on the sandisk. Why? I have no idea. I'm more of a unix/linux person myself and found it quite simple once I used the tools I knew. I'm sure there is a way to correct this from DOS but unfortunately I dont know. Perhaps someone else with more DOS knowledge. Have you checked to make sure the download itself was not corrupted? I have had this happen before and didnt check the checksums. Its annoying after attempting to install it 5 times to find out the download was bad. Try downloading it again to make sure. Also note that Midori 2.3pre1 was released 2.14.03 for those who didnt know. Adrenolin I-Opener Information and Hacking!! 02-28-2003 02:20:11

RE:Help w Midori (modified 0 times) Jeff102410 Profile | Email The only way that I have found to get DOS to use all the SanDisk is to use Ranish Partition Magic. DOS's FDisk does not seem to work correctly behind LINUX. Bad news is...I'm not sure where to get it now. Maybe Google... 02-28-2003 21:37:46

RE:Help w Midori (modified 1 times) Adrenolin Profile | Email I have a copy of Ranish Partition Manager which is available on my site below. I haven't used it yet myself as I was able to resolve my problem by using Linux. ravic, you may wanna give this a try and see if it works for you. Please let us know if it does. Adrenolin I-Opener Information and Hacking!! 02-28-2003 23:16:33

RE:Help w Midori (modified 0 times) mp3boombox Profile | Email It aint worth going to your web site when i can find all the files else where with out being forced to give you my F-ing email address! The last thing your going to do is sell my email address to some email gathering group! 03-01-2003 16:33:51

RE:Help w Midori (modified 0 times) Jeff102410 Profile | Email I found a copy of RPM and put it on http://ITResource.com/IO.htm ... Hope it helps. 03-01-2003 19:03:25

RE:Help w Midori (modified 2 times) ravic Profile Finally i got this figured out. I chose 490/2/32 (C/H/S) in bios for the sandisk (Posted once before here on the board.) Used fdisk to create a single partition. Fdisk said the size is 15MB, i continued anyway. Then i formatted the partition. Then i used dolly with the command "dolly midori.img hd129:". (Notice that i did not use /c) IO booted up into midor linux successfully. Thanks for your help guys. 03-01-2003 19:46:44

RE:Help w Midori (modified 0 times) Adrenolin Profile | Email First.. ravic I'm glad you got this working. I attempted to set the BIOS like that when I ran into this problem and it didn’t work for me. Happy to hear it did for you. My obligated reply… mp3boombox grow up. If you don’t have something nice to say don’t open your mouth! I put the damn site up as a favor to this community because I found that when I started hacking my first I-Opener, 9 out of 10 sites I visited that had information I was looking for were no longer available. I found this more than frustrating as I'm sure most other new people do. I figure maybe over a few years I'll get a few hundred people who signup for an account. People DONT BUY a few hundred email addresses! They spend 19.95 and buy a list of a million or more! Think about it. Besides, anyone with an attitude such as yours I don’t think I really want to help. Note also that if I wanted to sell your email address I could simply click on your Profile in THIS forum. OHH I have mp3boombox’s email address!! I’m gonna sell it and make big bucks! Again.. please grow up! BTW.. thanks! Complaints made regarding websites on BBS forums simply generate more people visiting mentioned website. To anyone else.. My site does NOT SELL ANY information it gathers. Notice it doesn’t even have any stupid banners, which I’d likely make more money from than to try and sell a few hundred email addresses. I'm an IT professional who found these things to be kind of fun, found that most sites no longer exist and decided that I'd donate my personal disk space (now at almost 200MB for this site), bandwidth, and time to archive ideas, scripts, programs, BIOS and SanDisk images, data sheets and anything else related to I-Openers. Anything I find useful I download and then upload to my site so if the original site/source disappears the actual program, file or whatever it happens to be is STILL available from my site. I have also volunteered to host anything others may wish to contribute such as scans, photos, How-TOs or whatever, as long as it has to deal with the I-Opener. If you are looking for someplace to host anything related to the I-Opener simply let me know and I'll make sure its uploaded for you. If you find my site useful then I’m glad. If you don’t, let me know and it can be discussed politely. If you dont want to login thats your choice. Note that as stated before on this board you don’t even have to use your real email address! I setup the site so it doesn’t matter if your address is correct or not. Feel free to use your email address or a fake one. Hell, checkout mp3boombox’s profile and use his if you’d like. Seriously though, please do not use his or someone else’s email address as thats not right. Adrenolin I-Opener Information and Hacking!! 03-02-2003 09:21:12

RE:Help w Midori (modified 0 times) redwood Profile hey, I think we here are a group of fairly sensitive net users.. therefore the caution.. I signed up to your site with my junker@hotmail email, which I've used to signup to sites since about 1996... I get about 2-300 junk emails a day, which I don't bother looking at, so, feel Free to sell mine, :) , but, we all know, IF you have a nice clean email, it Only takes One mistake, to get it Filled with junk... I'm glad yer keeping the file available... 03-02-2003 17:45:01

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