phyCARD-M Getting
Started
•
Type
root
to login.
•
After you have successfully logged in, you can close Microcom.
If you don’t see the Barebox and Linux starting and don’t get a login
prompt, you probably have a kit with Windows CE preinstalled. Please
refer to the chapter
“Installing Linux on the phyCARD-M”
for instructions
on how to install Linux in such a case.
When the target is connected with the power supply, first the
boot loader Barebox is loaded from the flash memory. Then
the boot loader is uncompressing and booting the Linux
kernel from the flash. The kernel will then mount the root file
system, which is also located in the target’s flash. The root
file system uses the
Journaling Flash File System, Version 2.
JFFS2 is the successor, and a complete rewrite, of the original
JFFS by Red Hat. As its name implies, the JFFS2 implements
a journaling file system on the memory technology device
(MTD) it manages. JFFS2 does not attempt to provide a
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