Hi Michael, Thanks for your mail.
[..] > U-Boot: > It seems like you can't boot the new kernel that is delivered with Slackware > 14.0 (3.4.11) with an older U-Boot version (mine was from mid 2011, iirc). The > bootup process will hang after "Uncompressing linux kernel...". My first guess > was a wrong machine id set in u-boot, but the kernel and the init ramdisk from > Slackware 13.37 work fine. Nevertheless, upgrading u-boot to a current version > (i used one from March 2012) solves the problem. You can find instructions on > how to do this and links to current versions here: Thanks - there was a similar sounding problem for the Guruplug too, caused by a bug in u-boot that was triggered by newer kernels. [..] > The version located under 2011.12-3 works fine, so just use this one. I will add a section about the Sheevaplug ESATA system to here http://www.armedslack.org/maint_kirkwooduboot/ > Partitioning: > I wasn't able to create the partitions (/boot, swap, root) with fdisk. Opening > /dev/mmcblk0 with fdisk works, but as soon as you try to write the changes to > the sd card you get the error message "unable to write /dev/mmcbklk0p: bad > file descriptor". I haven't found out what causes this problem yet. As a > workaround you have to partition the card on some other computer (i used my > desktop computer). Creating the file system with the slackware installer > works. If you find out, let me know - I've never used an SD card there as all of my machines have hard drives. > Installation Guide: > The guide says that you have to set the variable "arcNumber" to 2678/0xa76 in > u-boot, but in fact you have to set the variable "machid" to 0xa76 (on the > Sheevaplug with ESATA). The arcNumber variable was the correct name on the u-boot for the original SheevaPlugs. However, is it even needed at all? I seem to recall Jawkins saying it wasn't required when he was looking at why the guruplug wouldn't boot. I think it might be that the variable inside u-boot has changed. I don't don't have an ESATA Sheevaplug, and would have had to look up the arch numbers from another source -- which I assume were correct at the time. I've amended the INSTALL_KIRKWOOD document with the change above, and I'll add a note about needing to upgrade the u-boot on an ESATA Sheevaplug I'll add it into 14.0 soonish. [..] > Nevertheless: Thanks a lot Stuart for all the time and the effort that you put > into Slackware for ARM! I have been using Slackware on my Sheevaplug and on a > Dreamplug for several months now and i am looking forward to install it on my > new Raspberry PI. It's a great distribution! Thanks! _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list [email protected] http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
