Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-30 Thread Davide
Ok I grabbed the boot stuff from rasbian (2013-09-10) and used the slackware arm miniroot in a freshlu formatted and partitioned SD it boots (minor issue complaining about root being already mounted rw ... probabbly need to add  ro to cmdline or edit the fstab). ATB

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-27 Thread Tom
Inviato: Giovedì 26 Settembre 2013 19:44 Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI Davide, I've also had problems installing Slackware on RPi. My board/card did not work with kernel / images they provided. I've suggested Slackware for RPI should use Raspbian kernel - because

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-27 Thread dowelld
, because I have to know it will work on both. Thanks. Dave -Original Message- From: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it To: Tom tom...@spoko.eu.org; armedslack armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Sent: Fri, Sep 27, 2013 9:10 am Subject: Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI I'm downloading

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-27 Thread Tom
Thanks Tom, Would you be prepared to test one of my images on your new pi to see if they boot? Either the 8GB or the installer with the old boot layout? the new firmware I tried this morning is causing the pi to reboot on 'shutdown -h now' . This is undesirable. OK, I can test it, if not in

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-27 Thread dowelld
Hi Tom, You can try my files if you want, they work for me. http://www.dowelld.net/?p=49 Thanks Dave -Original Message- From: Tom tom...@spoko.eu.org To: Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Sent: Fri, Sep 27, 2013 12:16 pm Subject: Re: [ARMedslack] A quick

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-27 Thread stanley garvey
On Sep 27, 2013 12:16 Tom tom...@spoko.eu.org wrote: I do not need images to test, just boot files and kernel. With these: ftp://ftp.stanleygarvey.co.uk/pub/slackwarearm_rpi/boot/ Both of mine RPis hang at colorful screen. Set of files that work for me:

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-26 Thread Davide
...@stanleygarvey.com A: stan...@stanleygarvey.com; Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Mercoledì 25 Settembre 2013 20:58 Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI The pi requires a fat filesystem to boot from. That partition is normally mountesd on /boot and should

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-26 Thread Hal
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:52:53PM +, stan...@stanleygarvey.com wrote: Did you dd the image onto the card? What suze of card? Try the installer image at stanleygarvey.com Regards, Stanley FWIW; I had intermittent issues using dd so tried: cat x.img /dev/sd_ Dunno why it

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-26 Thread Davide
...@netscape.net dowe...@netscape.net A: louigi...@yahoo.it; stan...@stanleygarvey.com; armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Giovedì 26 Settembre 2013 14:58 Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI I recognise that behaviour, I encountered the same kind of behaviour. In my case

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-26 Thread Davide
...@stanleygarvey.com stan...@stanleygarvey.com A: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it; dowe...@netscape.net dowe...@netscape.net; armedslack@lists.armedslack.org armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Giovedì 26 Settembre 2013 14:52 Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI Did you dd the image

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-26 Thread stanley
louigi...@yahoo.it Subject: Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI No I formatted the filesystem myself and copied files into it. The firs lot of boot loader stuff was gotten out of http://stanleygarvey.com/slackwarearm_rpi/slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.zip , unzipp created loop device

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-26 Thread Tom
@lists.armedslack.org ssc Inviato: Giovedì 26 Settembre 2013 14:52 ssc Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI ssc ssc Did you dd the image onto the card? ssc What suze of card? ssc Try the installer image at stanleygarvey.com ssc Regards, ssc Stanley ssc Sent from my BlackBerry

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-25 Thread stanley
Try the installer image. The gpu boots the system. At work now so can' explain further at he moment. Regards Stanley Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media -Original Message- From: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it Sender: ARMedslack armedslack-boun...@lists.armedslack.orgDate:

Re: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

2013-09-25 Thread dowelld
-Original Message- From: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it To: Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Sent: Wed, Sep 25, 2013 3:46 pm Subject: [ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI I got a friend to lend me a PI for a week ... I had a quick look at the community links for