On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Brian Kambach <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Peter.  F21 does work much more easily, although I still had to do the 
> DTB appending thing.

Yes, unfortunately you still need to do that because the uboot is
ancient and doesn't support it. At the moment that's out of our
control but I think before long upstream uboot will have support for
it at which point we might be able to look at providing a uboot to
flash onto the device but only time will tell there

Peter

> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Robinson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 7:02 AM
> To: Brian Kambach
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] F20 on Mirabox
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Brian Kambach <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Does anyone have instructions for getting the stock F20 image to run
>> on a Mirabox?
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m attempting to use the “Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-20-1-sda.raw.xz”
>> image on an SD card.  I initially tried booting the image as-is, but
>> it simply hung at “Starting kernel …”.  Following some old
>> instructions in this mailing list for F19 from Jon Masters, I appended
>> the “armada-370-mirabox.dtb” to the end of the uImage, which gets much 
>> further, but stops at:
>>
>> [  OK  ] Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen.
>>
>> [  OK  ] Reached target Paths.
>>
>> [  OK  ] Reached target Basic System.
>>
>> [  203.390737] dracut-initqueue[247]: Warning: Could not boot.
>>
>> [  203.432165] dracut-initqueue[247]: Warning: /dev/sdb3 does not
>> exist
>>
>>
>>
>> So, it obviously can’t find the real root filesystem, but I don’t know
>> how to remedy this.  Any ideas?
>
> It's missing the usb driver from from the initrd. It may even have been 
> missing the usb driver entirely in the F-20 GA release as I discovered both 
> issues around the same time but I don't remember exactly when that was.
>
> So to get it running on F-20 you'd likely need to pull in a newer 
> kernel/dracut and regenerate the initrd. I've never run F-20 on my Mirabox 
> but it's running F-21 really well so TBH I'd grab the latest
> F-21 Beta RC and go with that as it's very solid on the Mirabox.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
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