Re: Newbie Question on Debian Install // Update
Am Dienstag, den 29.05.2012, 22:36 +0200 schrieb Emil Tchekov: Dear all, Dear all, here is the update as promised: After obtaining a new usb 3.0 card reader evrth. worked as expected instantly. After fresh format, extracting the tarbal on the card, put it in the FreeRunner and it boots like a charm. So it was not the card itself, but the reader... Thank you very much for the help. Emil ___ Smartphones-userland mailing list Smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland
Re: Newbie Question on Debian Install // Update
After fresh format, extracting the tarbal on the card, put it in the FreeRunner and it boots like a charm. So it was not the card itself, but the reader... Thank you very much for the help. Thank you for the update. It seems that cards and their readers are very volatile. I have one Kingston card that has always worked well, and another Kingston that doesn't seem to work at all. Brendon Emil ___ Smartphones-userland mailing list Smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland ___ Smartphones-userland mailing list Smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland
Re: Newbie Question on Debian Install
But back to my question: - I have tried to use the tarball Debian offered trough the Wiki, but again no luck, it hangs in early boot stage with unable to create debugfs. I think that's a normal message, but did you wait for a minute or so and it didn't disappear? If I recall correctly, booting the minimal rootfs (2012 variant) should start X so at least the message should disappear. ++ ! That message occurs every time I start the phone, regardless of system installed. Sometimes I think it has to do with the debug board, since I don't have one it shows that message...? And if it is the first boot it might show longer. My first Debian boot on the neo had a VERY minimal X running, not really even functional. You should read the link I provided in last mail, my notes on Debian install, after successful boot you can log in via SSH and install fxce or enlightenment. Brendon It could also be a combination of these, ie. some of your SD cards might be better than others for Neo, but the fdisk problem caused problems with install.sh and maybe then you didn't try the minimal rootfs on all the cards. However, the SD cards are a tricky problem on Neo and it's not about quality of the SD card as such, it's about just what the Neo happens to like or not. Please check if any of your cards are on the Newer list section of the page http://wiki.openmoko.org/index.php?title=Supported_microSD_cards - although apparently even the same product code could have different variants. My working-with-Neo-SD-cards are those TS8GUSDHC6-P3 and TS16GUSDHC6. Anyway, it might be some other problem as well. I'm using the Qi bootloader myself (for example http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtmoko/files/GTA02/). -Timo ___ Smartphones-userland mailing list Smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland ___ Smartphones-userland mailing list Smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland
Re: Newbie Question on Debian Install
Brendon Schumacker brendon.s...@gmail.com writes: That message occurs every time I start the phone, regardless of system installed. At least [ 29.75] s3c2410_udc: debugfs dir creation failed -19 is perfectly normal. ___ Smartphones-userland mailing list Smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland
Re: Newbie Question on Debian Install
e...@tchekov.net writes: 1) QI Sure but there are many variants. Where did you get yours? 2) assume the one used in http://people.debian.org/~timo/NeoFreeRunner/Debian_NeoFreeRunner_minimalrootfs_20120321.tar.xz I assume this has linux-image-2.6.34-openmoko-gta02 20101212.git049b71de-2 ___ Smartphones-userland mailing list Smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland
Re: Newbie Question on Debian Install
@ all, thank you very much for the hints. I will check asap and give feedback. Emil ___ Smartphones-userland mailing list Smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland
Re: Newbie Question on Debian Install
2012/5/30 Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi: 2) assume the one used in http://people.debian.org/~timo/NeoFreeRunner/Debian_NeoFreeRunner_minimalrootfs_20120321.tar.xz I assume this has linux-image-2.6.34-openmoko-gta02 20101212.git049b71de-2 Yes. -Timo ___ Smartphones-userland mailing list Smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland
Re: Newbie Question on Debian Install //first feedback
Am Mittwoch, den 30.05.2012, 12:17 +0200 schrieb e...@tchekov.net: @ all, thank you very much for the hints. I will check asap and give feedback. Emil The suspicion - it can lay on the SD card seems to get harder I have repeated the procedure and now there is another error message: (comes many times after some initial works - also boot starts normally and crashes after couple of seconds) [xxx] EXT2-fs (mobilexx) error:ext2_lookup deleted inode referenced Also the card reader I am using hangs extremely long on safe unmount... I will order new reader and one of the recommended SD cards and start a new try ... Many thanks Emil ___ Smartphones-userland mailing list Smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland
Re: Newbie Question on Debian Install
Emil Tchekov e...@tchekov.net writes: /*I assume that my particular Neo has problems with his microSD interface - since I have tested many SD cards - also real high quality ones - no success; but when SD Card was filled on Desktop than it What 1) boot loader, 2) kernel, 3) SD card? ___ Smartphones-userland mailing list Smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland
Re: Newbie Question on Debian Install
On 30 May 2012 04:36, Emil Tchekov e...@tchekov.net wrote: Dear all, after spending many hours in trying to install Debian on my Neo via script (failed every time on SD Card partitioning). Perhaps some of my notes here may be useful: http://rendon.freeshell.org/notes/openmoko_debian.html I used a Kingston SD card. Brendon /*I assume that my particular Neo has problems with his microSD interface - since I have tested many SD cards - also real high quality ones - no success; but when SD Card was filled on Desktop than it works - so I was able to test almost all other Distributions via QI/U-Boot)*/ But back to my question: - I have tried to use the tarball Debian offered trough the Wiki, but again no luck, it hangs in early boot stage with unable to create debugfs. What I am doing wrong??? Is there an workaround to solve this? Thank you very much in advance for you help! Emil ___ Smartphones-userland mailing list Smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland ___ Smartphones-userland mailing list Smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland
