Fwd: Replicating Linaro Images to more memory cards

2012-02-21 Thread Sudhangathan B S
Ohh that's super. My replicated memory card is working. Thanks Nicolas and
Waddel for quick help.

Can't Linaro image be made generalised so that I can put the image in any
memory card/any hardware.?? So that replication becomes easy.

Little more to go:
Using the replicated memory card, my Wi2Wi WiFi module on another
Overo-Fire is not working. Network manager doesn't detect any WiFi modules.
How can I make this work. I suppose the replicated linaro is looking for
the older WiFi module which was on it's previous Overo-Fire hardware. I
have 4 Overo-Fires with me, all with same make Wi-Fi modules.
-- How can I generalize the Linaro so that replicated Linaro will detect
any other Hardware's WiFi module.

More over at the console messages i get a lot of error messages like::
[6.924926] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[6.936523] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[8.731719] uncorrectable error :
[8.735687] uncorrectable error :
[8.745086] end_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock0, sector 0
[8.761077] Buffer I/O error on device mtdblock0, logical block 0
[8.794738] uncorrectable error :
[8.798309] uncorrectable error :
[8.807281] end_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock0, sector 0
[8.822998] Buffer I/O error on device mtdblock0, logical block 0
[8.889343] uncorrectable error :
[8.893005] uncorrectable error :
[8.901794] end_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock0, sector 0

This repeats for some for 1000 lines with different mtdblock# and different
sectors.
-- I suppose this will eat up CPU time and memory - both are crucial for
my setup.


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On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Matt Waddel matt.wad...@linaro.orgwrote:

 On 02/17/2012 08:42 PM, Sudhangathan B S wrote:
  Thanks Nicolas, that sounds very promising, probably something silly is
  missing, for it is not working,
 
  Yes Nicolas, in the console message during boot i could find the line
  root=UUID=xxx like:
  [0.00] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.
   Total pages: 61952
  -- [0.00] Kernel command line: console=tty0
 console=ttyO2,115200n8
  root=UUID=17fb7403-3757-4533-b783-7be5436d9882 rootwait ro earlyprintk
  mpuratM
  [0.00] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
 
  I tried giving the whole bootargs command in the boot console after
  interrupting the boot, the situation is still the same.
  Result::
  Environment size: 1276/131068 bytes
  -- Overo # setenv bootargs console=tty0 console=ttyO2,115200n8
   root=LABEL=rootfs rootwait ro earlyprintk mpurate=${mpurate} vram=12M
  -- Overo # saveenv
  Saving Environment to NAND...
  Erasing Nand...
  Erasing at 0x24 -- 100% complete.
  Writing to Nand... done
  Overo # boot
  reading boot.scr
 
  I found the line in boot.txt in the boot partition of the memory card. I
  did change that line in boot.txt to root=LABEL=rootfs, nothing changed in
  the kernel command line, it was still as shown above.
 
  I want to know where exactly i have to change the boot args from UUID to
  LABEL.

 Is there a boot.scr file in the same directory as the boot.txt file? If
 there is, then the boot.txt file is only showing the text contents of
 boot.scr file. To make a change to the boot script you need to; first
 make the changes in the boot.txt file, second run this command:

 mkimage -A arm -T script -C none -d boot.txt  boot.scr

 Incidentally, if mkimage isn't installed on your system then
 apt-get install u-boot-tools will install it.

 Best regards,
 Matt

 
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  Ph:(+91) 9731-905-205
  -
 
 
  On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Dechesne, Nicolas n-deche...@ti.com
 wrote:
 
 
 
  On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Sudhangathan B S 
 sudhangat...@gmail.comwrote:
 
  [6.605651] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
 
  [6.617279] usbhid: USB HID core driver
 
  Gave up waiting for root device.  Common problems:
 
   - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
 
 - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
 
 - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
 
   - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
 
  ALERT!  /dev/disk/by-uuid/17fb7403-3757-4533-b783-7be5436d9882 does not
  exist. !
 
 
  it looks like you are using UUID in the bootargs (root=UUID=xxx) to
  indicate where the root FS is. You can use a LABEL instead of UUID,
  root=LABEL=foobar, and make sure that on all your cards the root
 partition
  is labelled 'foobar'

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Re: Replicating Linaro Images to more memory cards

2012-02-18 Thread Sudhangathan B S
Ohh that's super. My replicated memory card is working. Thanks Nicolas and
Waddel for quick help.

Little more to go:
Using the replicated memory card, my Wi2Wi WiFi module on another
Overo-Fire is not working. Network manager doesn't detect any WiFi modules.
How can I make this work. I suppose the replicated linaro is looking for
the older WiFi module which was on it's previous Overo-Fire hardware. I
have 4 Overo-Fire with me.
-- How can I generalize the Linaro so that replicated Linaro will detect
any other Hardware's WiFi module.

More over at the console messages i get a lot of error messages like::
[6.924926] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[6.936523] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[8.731719] uncorrectable error :
[8.735687] uncorrectable error :
[8.745086] end_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock0, sector 0
[8.761077] Buffer I/O error on device mtdblock0, logical block 0
[8.794738] uncorrectable error :
[8.798309] uncorrectable error :
[8.807281] end_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock0, sector 0
[8.822998] Buffer I/O error on device mtdblock0, logical block 0
[8.889343] uncorrectable error :
[8.893005] uncorrectable error :
[8.901794] end_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock0, sector 0

This repeats for some for 1000 lines with different mtdblock# and different
sectors.
-- I suppose this will eat up CPU time and memory - both are crucial for
my setup.


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Ph:(+91) 9731-905-205
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Matt Waddel matt.wad...@linaro.orgwrote:

 On 02/17/2012 08:42 PM, Sudhangathan B S wrote:
  Thanks Nicolas, that sounds very promising, probably something silly is
  missing, for it is not working,
 
  Yes Nicolas, in the console message during boot i could find the line
  root=UUID=xxx like:
  [0.00] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.
   Total pages: 61952
  -- [0.00] Kernel command line: console=tty0
 console=ttyO2,115200n8
  root=UUID=17fb7403-3757-4533-b783-7be5436d9882 rootwait ro earlyprintk
  mpuratM
  [0.00] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
 
  I tried giving the whole bootargs command in the boot console after
  interrupting the boot, the situation is still the same.
  Result::
  Environment size: 1276/131068 bytes
  -- Overo # setenv bootargs console=tty0 console=ttyO2,115200n8
   root=LABEL=rootfs rootwait ro earlyprintk mpurate=${mpurate} vram=12M
  -- Overo # saveenv
  Saving Environment to NAND...
  Erasing Nand...
  Erasing at 0x24 -- 100% complete.
  Writing to Nand... done
  Overo # boot
  reading boot.scr
 
  I found the line in boot.txt in the boot partition of the memory card. I
  did change that line in boot.txt to root=LABEL=rootfs, nothing changed in
  the kernel command line, it was still as shown above.
 
  I want to know where exactly i have to change the boot args from UUID to
  LABEL.

 Is there a boot.scr file in the same directory as the boot.txt file? If
 there is, then the boot.txt file is only showing the text contents of
 boot.scr file. To make a change to the boot script you need to; first
 make the changes in the boot.txt file, second run this command:

 mkimage -A arm -T script -C none -d boot.txt  boot.scr

 Incidentally, if mkimage isn't installed on your system then
 apt-get install u-boot-tools will install it.

 Best regards,
 Matt

 
  -
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  Ph:(+91) 9731-905-205
  -
 
 
  On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Dechesne, Nicolas n-deche...@ti.com
 wrote:
 
 
 
  On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Sudhangathan B S 
 sudhangat...@gmail.comwrote:
 
  [6.605651] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
 
  [6.617279] usbhid: USB HID core driver
 
  Gave up waiting for root device.  Common problems:
 
   - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
 
 - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
 
 - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
 
   - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
 
  ALERT!  /dev/disk/by-uuid/17fb7403-3757-4533-b783-7be5436d9882 does not
  exist. !
 
 
  it looks like you are using UUID in the bootargs (root=UUID=xxx) to
  indicate where the root FS is. You can use a LABEL instead of UUID,
  root=LABEL=foobar, and make sure that on all your cards the root
 partition
  is labelled 'foobar'

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Re: Replicating Linaro Images to more memory cards

2012-02-17 Thread Andy Doan

On 02/17/2012 01:26 AM, Sudhangathan B S wrote:

I'm using Gumstix Overo-Fire.
I need to replicate my systems to deploy and test my setup. Right now I
have one uSD memory card which is working fine, but when I copy the
whole card using either the `tar cvpf` or dd commands, the image doesn't
work on any other memory card. Below is the console message when it
hangs. I have tried many memory cards.

Looks like Linaro images store the memory card ID and search for them
during the boot time, which will obviously fail on a different card.

Is there any way I can make my Linaro Image memory card independent
so that my replication becomes easy..??


You could do something similar to the process we use to make pre-built 
images. For example, your linaro-media-create line currently is probably 
like:


  linaro-media-create --dev overo --mmc /dev/sdb ...

You can change this to something like:

  linaro-media-create --dev overo --image_file file.img --image_size 3G

This will create file.img which you could then dd to your SD cards.

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Re: Replicating Linaro Images to more memory cards

2012-02-17 Thread Sudhangathan B S
Thanks Nicolas, that sounds very promising, probably something silly is
missing, for it is not working,

Yes Nicolas, in the console message during boot i could find the line
root=UUID=xxx like:
[0.00] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.
 Total pages: 61952
-- [0.00] Kernel command line: console=tty0 console=ttyO2,115200n8
root=UUID=17fb7403-3757-4533-b783-7be5436d9882 rootwait ro earlyprintk
mpuratM
[0.00] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

I tried giving the whole bootargs command in the boot console after
interrupting the boot, the situation is still the same.
Result::
Environment size: 1276/131068 bytes
-- Overo # setenv bootargs console=tty0 console=ttyO2,115200n8
 root=LABEL=rootfs rootwait ro earlyprintk mpurate=${mpurate} vram=12M
-- Overo # saveenv
Saving Environment to NAND...
Erasing Nand...
Erasing at 0x24 -- 100% complete.
Writing to Nand... done
Overo # boot
reading boot.scr

I found the line in boot.txt in the boot partition of the memory card. I
did change that line in boot.txt to root=LABEL=rootfs, nothing changed in
the kernel command line, it was still as shown above.

I want to know where exactly i have to change the boot args from UUID to
LABEL.

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Sudhangathan BS
Ph:(+91) 9731-905-205
-


On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Dechesne, Nicolas n-deche...@ti.comwrote:



 On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Sudhangathan B S 
 sudhangat...@gmail.comwrote:

 [6.605651] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid

 [6.617279] usbhid: USB HID core driver

 Gave up waiting for root device.  Common problems:

  - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)

- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)

- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)

  - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)

 ALERT!  /dev/disk/by-uuid/17fb7403-3757-4533-b783-7be5436d9882 does not
 exist. !


 it looks like you are using UUID in the bootargs (root=UUID=xxx) to
 indicate where the root FS is. You can use a LABEL instead of UUID,
 root=LABEL=foobar, and make sure that on all your cards the root partition
 is labelled 'foobar'



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Re: Replicating Linaro Images to more memory cards

2012-02-17 Thread Matt Waddel
On 02/17/2012 08:42 PM, Sudhangathan B S wrote:
 Thanks Nicolas, that sounds very promising, probably something silly is
 missing, for it is not working,
 
 Yes Nicolas, in the console message during boot i could find the line
 root=UUID=xxx like:
 [0.00] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.
  Total pages: 61952
 -- [0.00] Kernel command line: console=tty0 console=ttyO2,115200n8
 root=UUID=17fb7403-3757-4533-b783-7be5436d9882 rootwait ro earlyprintk
 mpuratM
 [0.00] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
 
 I tried giving the whole bootargs command in the boot console after
 interrupting the boot, the situation is still the same.
 Result::
 Environment size: 1276/131068 bytes
 -- Overo # setenv bootargs console=tty0 console=ttyO2,115200n8
  root=LABEL=rootfs rootwait ro earlyprintk mpurate=${mpurate} vram=12M
 -- Overo # saveenv
 Saving Environment to NAND...
 Erasing Nand...
 Erasing at 0x24 -- 100% complete.
 Writing to Nand... done
 Overo # boot
 reading boot.scr
 
 I found the line in boot.txt in the boot partition of the memory card. I
 did change that line in boot.txt to root=LABEL=rootfs, nothing changed in
 the kernel command line, it was still as shown above.
 
 I want to know where exactly i have to change the boot args from UUID to
 LABEL.

Is there a boot.scr file in the same directory as the boot.txt file? If
there is, then the boot.txt file is only showing the text contents of
boot.scr file. To make a change to the boot script you need to; first
make the changes in the boot.txt file, second run this command:

mkimage -A arm -T script -C none -d boot.txt  boot.scr

Incidentally, if mkimage isn't installed on your system then
apt-get install u-boot-tools will install it.

Best regards,
Matt

 
 -
 Sudhangathan BS
 Ph:(+91) 9731-905-205
 -
 
 
 On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Dechesne, Nicolas n-deche...@ti.comwrote:
 


 On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Sudhangathan B S 
 sudhangat...@gmail.comwrote:

 [6.605651] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid

 [6.617279] usbhid: USB HID core driver

 Gave up waiting for root device.  Common problems:

  - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)

- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)

- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)

  - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)

 ALERT!  /dev/disk/by-uuid/17fb7403-3757-4533-b783-7be5436d9882 does not
 exist. !


 it looks like you are using UUID in the bootargs (root=UUID=xxx) to
 indicate where the root FS is. You can use a LABEL instead of UUID,
 root=LABEL=foobar, and make sure that on all your cards the root partition
 is labelled 'foobar'

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Replicating Linaro Images to more memory cards

2012-02-16 Thread Sudhangathan B S
I'm using Gumstix Overo-Fire.
I need to replicate my systems to deploy and test my setup. Right now I
have one uSD memory card which is working fine, but when I copy the whole
card using either the `tar cvpf` or dd commands, the image doesn't work on
any other memory card. Below is the console message when it hangs. I have
tried many memory cards.

Looks like Linaro images store the memory card ID and search for them
during the boot time, which will obviously fail on a different card.

Is there any way I can make my Linaro Image memory card independent so
that my replication becomes easy..??


These are the last lines from the console messages during the boot, with
the replicated memory card.

[6.605651] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid

[6.617279] usbhid: USB HID core driver

Gave up waiting for root device.  Common problems:

 - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)

   - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)

   - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)

 - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)

ALERT!  /dev/disk/by-uuid/17fb7403-3757-4533-b783-7be5436d9882 does not
exist. !


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Ph:(+91) 9731-905-205
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