Hi. "Nick M. Daly" <[email protected]> writes:
>>>> >>>> I've tried using kpartx to locally mount the contents of the immage >>>> without success... >>> > > It works fine over losetup and mount. > > # losetup /dev/loop0 freedombox-unstable_2012.1021_dreamplug-armel-card.img > > # mount /dev/loop0 -t ext2 -o offset=135266304 /media/freedom/ > > The offset is 128 MiB + 1 MiB (in bytes), which is the start of the ext2 > partition. To mount the 128 MiB FAT partition, specify an offset of 1 > MiB. > > # umount /media/freedom/ > > # losetup -d /dev/loop0 > Thx. Added a pointer to your mail into http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/DreamPlug/Images. >> >> Yeah, that's the point... there doesn't seem to be some documentation >> about which image works for which hardware in the (debian) wiki, >> unfortunately. > > Feel free to start one. I'm trying to finish other work this weekend. > The information you need follows: > > There are at least two known versions of DreamPlugs that are somewhat > incompatible (the wireless hardware is different, IIRC). I do not > believe these hardware differences affect whether the DreamPlug boots. > > You can tell which DreamPlug version you have by reading the serial > number. > > - DS2-1112 :: Initial DreamPlug release. > - DS2-1113 :: Updated DreamPlug release. > > If other DreamPlug series exist, they are unknown to me, so I can't > speak to their ability to boot images. > Added these details in http://wiki.debian.org/DreamPlugTesting (they're more about the HW than about FreedomBox, so preferred to add to that one page). > The uboot version (and its configuration) as delivered on the plug > affect what images it can boot. Vendors configure uboot differently, so > all I can speak to is DreamPlugs delivered by GlobalScale, because those > are the only ones I've had experience with. In other words, image > booting incompatibilities are related to the uboot version and > configuration on the plug itself. > > - Images before the 0.1 release boot smoothly on stock DreamPlugs from > GlobalScale. > > - Images on or after the 0.1 release (2012-0820) need the 2012.04.01 or > later version of uboot from Debian Wheezy. > > Here're the tables you're looking for. Please put them on the wiki. > > | Vendor | Model | uboot | > |-------------+----------+---------| > | GlobalScale | DS2-1112 | Default | > | GlobalScale | DS2-1113 | Default | > > | uboot Vendor | uboot Version | Image Versions | > |--------------+---------------------+-------------------| > | GlobalScale | The Default (?) | Pre 0.1 | > | Debian | 2012.04.01 (Wheezy) | Pre 0.1, Post 0.1 | > > Bdale has not, to my knowledge, published any images himself. The > weekly images considered "Pre 0.1" are the 2012.0819 image and prior > images. The "Post 0.1" images are the 2012.0903 image and later images. > OK, many thanks. I've added these details to http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/DreamPlug/Images this time. ... together with a bunch of wiki "gardening", which I hope won't break too many links, and will make the content more logical. Many thanks for your response. Best regards, -- Olivier BERGER http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France) _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
