Today I did the following test on my pandaboard; - download the miniroot fs for armedslack-13.1 - chroot into it
The result was successful. I tried to install a package (python), using wget and then installpkg. Python was installed and worked in the chroot-ed Slackware. I think that this means that Slackware ARM is compatible with the pandaboard. Now I would like to install a full Slackware ARM on the pandaboard. In order to boot, the pandaboard needs the following files in a FAT32 partition on an SD card: - MLO - u-boot.bin - uImage I used the files provided by Angstrom distro. My idea is to continue to use those 3 files for booting and then install a full Slackware by NFS or USB external hard disk. Note: the pandaboard can boot only from a SD card. My problem now is where to find the Slackware installer (setup) program to launch, after booting Angstrom kernel. I am not expert about playing with boot and installer yet. Can you please give me any instructions? Best regards, giovanni On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Stuart Winter <[email protected]>wrote: > > > First of all, you have to check if your processor is supported by Linux > > kernel. Then try to compile the kernel for your CPU and try to boot it. I > see > > there is SD/MMC slot, so maybe it is possible to install OS there. > > first thing: if you have such a device already in your posession: > - download the miniroot fs for armedslack-current > - chroot into it > > Does it work? If not then it's either: > - because their kernel is older than linux 2.6.31 > - or the userland of armedslack just doesn't work on that board (which > would be sad, but possible). > > Ubuntu is on it already, so there's Kernel support for it -- the easiest > thing I would do is to take the latest 2.6.37 or 2.6.38rc1 and check > if the OMAP Panda Support is in the kernel - take which ever one has it > (if it's there -- if not, find the patches and apply them to the > appropriate kernel -- ensuring that it's at least linux 2.6.31). > > Compile the kernel: easiest thing first is to build a monolithic kernel > with all of the bits your device will need. It's easier to bootstrap this > way than to faff around with an initrd. > > Find out how to configure the boot loader to boot your own kernel. > Ideally if it can tftp load then setup a tftp server and boot the kernel > from there. > Some of the Slackware ARM installation docs explain how to do this. > > Once you've got that far you can then boot into a miniroot and see how far > you get. > This board looks interesting. If they sell it with a case, I'd be tempted > to get one. > > _______________________________________________ > ARMedslack mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack >
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