If you want my opinion, ditch Linux mint *NOW*. Personally I will not use anything other than Debian for a support system to the BBB, and would NEVER use X for this purpose. Especially in a VM . . .
Yeah yeah, Linux mint is based on Ubuntu and Debian( testing ) ( depending on version ), but thats part of the problem. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Brian Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > @Robert - Thanks for confirming! > > @William - Interesting. Can you shed some additional light on this > approach? usbnet is Ethernet over USB, correct? Is this just an > alternative to using the wired Ethernet jack...and thus one still is > mounting the rootfs via NFS from a NAS or something like that? Or is this > a different approach? How does the BBB access/mount the rootfs? Would > this approach work for supporting cross development on a Linux laptop with > a filesystem shared with the BBB? > > I was able to download a kernel via TFTP, boot and successfully mount an > NFS rootfs...sorta. > > I had originally setup a rootfs on the NFS share as follows: > > Setup a uSD card: > > - Created using > > https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-08-05/lxde/bone-debian-7.6-lxde-armhf-2014-08-05-4gb.img.xz > - Configured and setup on a BBB Rev C. > - Successfully booted, run, and updated numerous times on the BBB. > > Shutdown the BBB, move the uSD card to my MAC. Then, from Linux Mint > running in Virtual Box on the MAC: > > - Mount the uSD card. > - Create a tarball from the mounted uSD card whilst sudo. > - Untar the tarball into the exported NFS share location on Linux Mint > whilst sudo. > > My assumption was that I should be able to move/copy the rootfs from the > uSD card using a separate system. Note that the uSD card was NOT running a > live system when I made the copies. > > Unfortunately, when the BBB subsequently tries to boot using the copied > rootfs, the following happens: > > [....] Checking root file system...fsck from util-linux 2.20.1 > fsck.ext4: No such device or address while trying to open /run/rootdev > Possibly non-existent or swap device? > fsck died with exit status 8 > > So, I resorted to creating a fresh rootfs using > https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-08-05/lxde/debian-7.6-lxde-armhf-2014-08-05.tar.xz > . > > All went fine and the system booted and I could ssh to it. > > Unfortunately, this system seems to have some broken network setup. A bit > of digging reveals that /etc/resolv.conf is not setup correctly: > > domain localdomain > search localdomain > nameserver 192.168.1.1 > > Whilst /etc/resolv.conf from the rootfs on the original uSD card that I've > been using: > > domain hsd1.wa.comcast.net. > search hsd1.wa.comcast.net. > nameserver 10.0.1.1 > > Also, /etc/network/interfaces does not have the stanzas for the USB > gadget, and /etc/udhcpd.conf is not setup properly. There may be other > issues, but this is as far as I've looked. > > Obviously something is either missing or went awry. > > Thoughts? > > Cheers, > > ba > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
