Re: Problems installing Debian on SheevaPlug

2010-08-27 Thread Shiva Bhattacharjee
Make sure to use console=ttyS0,115200*n8* That says to parse in utf8, as far as i can tell On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Colin Fleming colin.mailingl...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I've been trying to install Debian on my SheevaPlug following Martin Michlmayr's guide. I'm having a problem

Re: emacs-snapshot for arm

2010-08-11 Thread Shiva Bhattacharjee
Can the emacs package be cross-compiled? You can find some information here http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/Scratchbox2_based_cross_compiling I must, however, say I have not personally gotten a chance to do this myself. But from what I hear, it depends on a package by package

Re: Failing to boot from sd card

2010-07-22 Thread Shiva Bhattacharjee
As I said before, once i only selected the core utilities it all worked fine. If someone can confirm, if the other packages are working for them...maybe I got unlucky while fetching them!? Shiva On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Shiva Bhattacharjee shiva...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010

Failing to boot from sd card

2010-07-21 Thread Shiva Bhattacharjee
Looking at Martin's site, I didn't see the note on the broken installer, so I assumed things are working. My installation completed fine, but while booting from my sd card, its just hangs mid-way. As you can see in the log fsck is failing with the following error...not sure if this is ominous or

Re: Failing to boot from sd card

2010-07-21 Thread Shiva Bhattacharjee
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com wrote: Yes, I uploaded fixed installer images last evening. Thanks Martin. That's what I suspected. The boot process looks fine to me but obviously the login prompt is missing. Here is what I think happened: your

Re: Managed to brick my sheevaplug -- not getting any serial output

2010-03-11 Thread Shiva Bhattacharjee
Is it necessary for me to use the same mini-usb cable that came with the sheevaplug? It seems my host machines ( windows, linux, mac) all recognize the sheevaplug but when I try connecting to the serial port I get nothing... I think I am running into the same problem with the installer as

Re: Managed to brick my sheevaplug -- not getting any serial output

2010-03-11 Thread Shiva Bhattacharjee
/plugwiki/index.php/Setting_Up_OpenOCD_Under_Linux On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:29, LluĂ­s Batlle virik...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/3/11 Shiva Bhattacharjee shiva...@gmail.com: Is it necessary for me to use the same mini-usb cable that came with the sheevaplug? It seems my host machines ( windows

Managed to brick my sheevaplug -- not getting any serial output

2010-03-10 Thread Shiva Bhattacharjee
Hi, I was about to install debian on my sheevaplug. Since I was going to do it from an usb stick, I had to upgrade my UBoot. I followed the instructions from http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/uboot-upgrade.html. I did a reset and verified my UBoot indeed got upgraded. However,