Gene, I built the kernel on the uSD.
I have a 32gb SSD that doesn’t seem to want to work. So I ordered a 240gb SSD and a SATA to USB3.0 case from Walmart. I started to order a 120gb SSD but the shipping was almost as much as the difference in price between the smaller one and the larger one and I got free shipping with the larger one and case. I have an 80gb 2.5” HD (usb2.0) that I tried flashing like a uSD. It wouldn’t boot but I was able to mount it and access the files. I guess I’ll just have to wait till my SSD arrives. I bought the 16gb EMMC also, but I also bought the usb to EMMC programmer. I just flashed the EMMC with Etcher. I will reflash it, when I am satisfied that I have the OS and linuxcnc working. The usb programmer has the same kind of socket on it that the board has, so you just mount the EMMC on the programmer and flash it like a uSD, then take it off the programmer and mount it on the board. When it is mounted on the board the board will boot from it instead of the uSD. Alan > Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 11:54:19 -0400 > From: Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] buildbot for arm64 > Message-ID: <201904271154.19577.ghesk...@shentel.net> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Saturday 27 April 2019 11:08:20 Alan Condit wrote: > >> I have just completed building 4.19.31 LTS preempt_rt for my RockPro64 >> (on my RockPro64). I would love to have access to linuxcnc builds from >> a buildbot for arm. It took about 8 hours to compile the kernel, so I >> am not looking forward to building linuxcnc on my RockPro64. I could >> load machinekit but they seem to never have a stable release and >> almost no documentation. >> >> Alan >> > Alan, how are your building it, as in to what storage medium? I could > believe that 8 hours to an u-sd card, but one compile will likely use up > the life of the cards wear leveling unless its way bigger than 32GB. Get > a 10 dollar usb to sata cable from those folks, and stick a 40 to 120 GB > SSD on it. Running that way, its an hour or less on one of my rock64's > w/4GB of ram. And a 16Gb eMMC I haven't figured out how to use yet. Docs > from the pine folks aren't at all descriptive to an English speaker > who's never seen a rock64 before. > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
