I've been reading the mailing list a lot today and think I can proceed now. Will give it a go next week and post if I have any more questions, or get stuck!
Cheers, Ed On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Edward Robbins <edd.robb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > To bring this discussion back round to the original topic, now that I > have an e3 setup how do I go about getting it to boot? > > I've got a serial going with an inverter, I know I can use pbltool to > flash an image to the NAND, and I'm happy building a kernel for it. So > as far as I can tell my next steps are to use the resources at > http://the.earth.li/pub/e3/ to flash the kernel, a bootloader, and > some fs. > > Still, the way forward seems a little hazy, at least without reading > the last 6 years worth of mailing list archives. As far as I can tell, > there are a couple of ways to boot: > > - use pbltool with a script to flash uboot, kernel, initrd. Not sure > if script needs to be modified for kernel/initrd size or if the kernel > will then just happily boot after every reset unattended. > - use pbltool to flash !LDR, uboot, kernel and initrd. Not sure if I > need to first boot a (possibly very old) system to flash !LDR or if it > can be done using pbltool > - flash !LDR, kernel and initrd, without uboot. > > In any case, I am still unsure about a few things > > - can I use pbltool to do the flashing in any of those scenarios, or > do I need something else? > - are the versions of pbltool and !LDR at the link I posted the latest? > - will I need to modify the kernel to have the correct NAND partition > offsets for my kernel etc? Is there a specific address PBL looks to > boot from? > - how do you set kernel parameters etc? Does uboot give its normal > boot prompt to framebuffer/serial? > > Sorry for all the newbie questions! > Best, > Ed _______________________________________________ e3-hacking mailing list e3-hacking@earth.li http://www.earth.li/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/e3-hacking
