Michael,
Thanks for pointing me to those, that got me going (I used a combination
of the with-linux kernel and the uinitrd from Slackware 13.37 to get
everything installed). You made my day getting my plug all ready to go!
Cheers, Innes.
On 21/08/2011 18:43, Michael Langfinger wrote:
Hi Innes,
the problem is that the kernel that is delivered with ARMedslack has MTD
support compiled in. For some strange reason, this causes the Dreamplug to
hang. [1]
The workaround for this is pretty simple. Just compile a kernel without MTD support or -
which i did - use the kernel from "with-linux" for the dreamplug. [2]
You also have to ensure that the uImage is on a FAT partition, because the
u-boot version on the Dreamplug doesn't support booting from ext2 (except they
fixed this in newer revisions, it's been a while since i installed ARMedslack
on the dreamplug).
Of course this workaround has the disadvantage that you have to take care that
a system update doesn't overwrite your custom uImage and you have to take care
about kernel upgrades yourself. I circumvent the problem of an accidental
upgrade (leading to an unbootable system) by mounting the partition that
contains the custom uImage to /boot-vfat; /boot is just a folder. In this case
a kernel upgrade will overwrite the uImage in /boot, which doesn't affect the
system boot at all. Maybe not the best way, but it works. ;)
You also might need to set the arcNumber (in u-boot) to the correct value
(should be 2659, iirc - unfortunately the dreamplug is about 50 kilometers away
from my current position, so i can't look it up ;)).
Cheers,
Michael
[1]
http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?PHPSESSID=manimc8t872rscog9oeti7adb5&topic=5731.0
[2] http://archlinuxarm.org/mirror/with-linux/index.php?dir=2.6.38%2F2.6.38.8%2F
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