Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images
Sivakumar.R.J wrote: We are trying to create initrd and zImage for our customized IMX31 armel board ( in which we have tested debian chroot successfully). We need to boot the debian from the redboot. Is it possible to boot the debian with you provided initrd and kernel image. This initial ROM contents (as of Friday, Nov. 7) boots the debian-installer (in low-memory mode) on my NSLU2: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/files/tmp/daily.img and then enables me to install a Debian Linux system which boots vmlinuz (with initrd) from /boot of the USB2.0 disk. Obviously I can take the USB2.0 disk to any other machine, mount it, change the contents of the filesystem however I like, then take the USB2.0 disk back to the NSLU2. If not please provide me the information to create our own initrd and kernel zImage to boot the debian filesystem from redboot.We are using freescale LTIB provided cross compiler tool ,zImage and rootfs.jffs2 and we are going to use the same drivers .kindly direct me in correct path. I have no experience with that particular hardware or software, and I'm slightly baffled why you are asking me. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images
* John Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-09 09:15]: It worked for me but it was very slow, by a factor of ten. Yeah, debian-installer isn't really designed for machines like the NSLU2. There are in fact installers that run on the host system, such as the one for SLIND, but I don't think anyone has adapted them for Debian and the NSLU2. Changing from ext3 to ext2 (which avoids the double write of journalling), and using the 'noatime' mount option, saved 45 minutes. That's a very interesting observation. I'll forward this to debian-boot. Maybe this should be done in lowmem mode. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:12:55PM +0530, Sivakumar.R.J wrote: We are trying to create initrd and zImage for our customized IMX31 armel board ( in which we have tested debian chroot successfully). We need to boot the debian from the redboot. Is it possible to boot the debian with you provided initrd and kernel image. If not please provide me the information to create our own initrd and kernel zImage to boot the debian filesystem from redboot.We are using freescale LTIB provided cross compiler tool ,zImage and rootfs.jffs2 and we are going to use the same drivers .kindly direct me in correct path. Installing debian using custom kernel and standard d-i initrd is possible: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Arm/OtherPlatforms Notice that d-i does not support installing to NAND and does not support jffs2 filesystem at the moment, so this is mostly usefull on installing to a MMC/SD compatible card or USB connected mass storage device. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images
On 2008-11-07 15:17 +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: debian-installer rc1 is going to be announced officially next week. However, the images for ARM are already available. I'm now looking for people who are interested in testing these installer images. If you have a spare ARM machine or want to reinstall your machine for some reason (for example to move from arm to armel), please use the installer images from the following location and report problems to this list: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-armel/current/images/ The images here will work on Thecus N2100 (iop32x), GLAN Tank (iop32x), QNAP TS-109/TS-209 and TS-409 (orion5x), HP mv2120 (orion5x) and Linksys NSLU2 (ixp4xx) with a USB Ethernet adapter. If you have a Linksys NSLU2 but no USB Ethernet adapter, you can download an image that contains the proprietary IXP4xx microcode: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/files/tmp/daily.img OK. I just did an armel install on my slug. I only had one significant problem. There was an early question asking what extra components I wanted to install. I chose lvm2-udeb (IIRC) as I like lvm but that resulted in the install hanging at 'loading extra componenets'. It may just have been going incredibly slowly but I left it for a fair while (half an hour?). re-running the install without that option it all went fine, but I didn't get an obvious opportunity to use LVM. Apart from that, and the fact that it took forever, the docs were spot-on and it all went very well. Wookey -- Principal hats: Balloonz - Toby Churchill - Aleph One - Debian http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images
we are trying to install in NAND only, but now i come across embedian toolchain will support to create custom kernel and initrd. is it worthful? On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Riku Voipio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:12:55PM +0530, Sivakumar.R.J wrote: We are trying to create initrd and zImage for our customized IMX31 armel board ( in which we have tested debian chroot successfully). We need to boot the debian from the redboot. Is it possible to boot the debian with you provided initrd and kernel image. If not please provide me the information to create our own initrd and kernel zImage to boot the debian filesystem from redboot.We are using freescale LTIB provided cross compiler tool ,zImage and rootfs.jffs2 and we are going to use the same drivers .kindly direct me in correct path. Installing debian using custom kernel and standard d-i initrd is possible: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Arm/OtherPlatforms Notice that d-i does not support installing to NAND and does not support jffs2 filesystem at the moment, so this is mostly usefull on installing to a MMC/SD compatible card or USB connected mass storage device.
