Proper invocation of flash-kernel?

2023-06-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hi all. I want to add a parameter to the kernel command line and have added the option to both lines in /etc/default/flash-kernel. I am familiar with the grub commands generating the new menu entries. Is the process the same for 'flash-kernel' by simply running it as root? The manual page

Re: The state of Arm64 on Raspberry Pi (and its Documentation

2020-04-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 16 Apr 13:20 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Besides there is i386 which intel retroactively called IA32, and then to > confuse everyone decided IA64 was itanium, not the 64bit version of x86. > Lots of people tried to install ia64 debian on 64 bit x86 machines > over the years. Debian

Re: Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 26 Mar 18:26 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > This is now resolved thanks to the help of user Klaus on the Olimex > forum. The trick was to use dtrfstune to change the p2 UUID of the > 4G micro-SD to match that of the p@ UUID of the 32 GB card. s/dtrfstune/btrfstune/ s/p@/

Re: Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
This is now resolved thanks to the help of user Klaus on the Olimex forum. The trick was to use dtrfstune to change the p2 UUID of the 4G micro-SD to match that of the p@ UUID of the 32 GB card. All is working well now. I now have the 32 GB card available to work with the Raspberry Pi 4B that

Re: Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 25 Mar 00:11 -0500, Alan Corey wrote: > Try your kernel config string. On this Pi /boot/cmdline.txt has > root=PARTUUID=d9b3f436-02 Except I'm not working with a Pi. Yes, I've done the exact same thing in the past on a Pi. Pi's are easy peasy. This is a different animal that has

Re: Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
Grep on the 32 GB card for the root UUID only turns up the value in p2/etc/fstab. Nothing turned up in p1 though I can manually look into either of the initrd images with Midnight Commander and find it in the aforementioned dafault_root file. I did see where the 32 GB card has p2 labeled as

Re: Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 24 Mar 15:46 -0500, Alan Corey wrote: > Downsizing requires that no files are in the part you trim off. Ahhh. Makes sense. The mmc has two partitions, p1 an ext2 of 128 MB and p2 a btrfs with the rest of the space. Since I had the files of p2 on the 4 GB card, I went ahead and

Resize a disk image from 32G to 4G or copy u-boot?

2020-03-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hi All. I have an Olimex LIME2 based Freedombox (Debian Buster) and as I am using an external hard drive with it, less than 2 GB of the 32 GB micro-SD card capacity is being used. I have a spare 4 GB card that I would like to use instead, but haven't figured out how to downsize the root

Re: Single user mode, view on HDMI output?

2019-05-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
Well, it turns out that I was doing things the wrong-headed olde way. Before I figured out the systemd way, I sorted through the flash-kernel script and wound up modifying /etc/flash-kernel/bootscript/bootscr.sunxi to set the console variable in the bootargs variable to tty0 and that did work for

Re: Single user mode, view on HDMI output?

2019-05-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2019 06 May 14:10 -0500, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 08:22:43AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I have a Freedombox Pioneer HSK (Olimex A20-Linuxino-LIME2) that I want > > to do some maintenance (move some system dir

Single user mode, view on HDMI output?

2019-05-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hi all. I have a Freedombox Pioneer HSK (Olimex A20-Linuxino-LIME2) that I want to do some maintenance (move some system directory contents off the uSD to a SATA drive). When I issue 'telinit 1' the HDMI screen clears and I am left with a blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner of the

Re: After update to latest Stretch--boot stops

2019-02-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
Thanks, Steve! All is working now again. I guess I picked the wrong time to upgrade. :-D - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: http://www.n0nb.us GPG key: D55A8819 GitHub: N0NB signature.asc

Re: After update to latest Stretch--boot stops

2019-02-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2019 19 Feb 15:37 -0600, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > If you're using the flash-kernel boot script, from the u-boot prompt: > > setenv fk_kvers 4.9.0-7-armmp > > You might have to do "ls mmc 0:1" or wherever your boot partition is to > find the correct version. Oh, thanks! Just before I

Re: After update to latest Stretch--boot stops

2019-02-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2019 19 Feb 15:11 -0600, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2019-02-19, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I've been running Stretch on my Olimes A20-Olinuxino Micro for several > > months without issue until just a while ago. I performed an update > > through Aptitude whereup

After update to latest Stretch--boot stops

2019-02-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
I've been running Stretch on my Olimes A20-Olinuxino Micro for several months without issue until just a while ago. I performed an update through Aptitude whereupon the latest version of systemd and kernel were updated. After a proper shutdown and restart the boot process stalls at the point

Changing root device with flash-kernel and initramfs-tools?

2018-10-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
Greetings to the list! I recently installed Stretch on my Olimex A20-OLinuXino-MICRO. The installation was almost flawless (only needed to intervene to configure the Ethernet port as detailed in the installation report Bug#909918). At the time I had a root file system for the previous