Krisbee wrote: > Ronnie, > > Don't know if you are prepared to try this again. Once connected via > SSH, and before you "Accept installer disclaimer" that shows on the > initial Web installer, this command should show what's happening: > > > Code: -------------------- > > > journalctl -f > -------------------- > > > > There's also a install log written to asi /tmp/install.log. You > should be able to view this as it's written to with: > > > Code: -------------------- > > > tail -f /tmp/install.log > -------------------- > > > > You may see error message around these point: "Fetching uboot" & > "Writing uboot" > > > I had another look at Triode's cubietruck installer image and what > ever else might be going wrong, there's certainly one obvious error > now. The installer images runs a script which includes setting some > initial values: > > > Code: -------------------- > > > #!/bin/bash > > CARD=$1 > HOSTNAME="soa-cubietruck" > FS_TAR=ArchLinuxARM-sun7i-latest.tar.gz > UBOOT_TAR=*uboot-cubietruck-2014.04-10-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz* > FIRMWARE=ap6210.zip > FIRMWARE_URL="http://dl.cubieforums.com/patwood/$FIRMWARE"; > IMAGE="soa-image-cubietruck" > IMAGE_URL="https://github.com/SqueezeOnArch/soa-installers/raw/master/$IMAGE.img.zip"; > -------------------- > > > > Later in the script The UBOOT file is downloaded and written to the SD > card: > > > Code: -------------------- > > > echo "Fetching uboot" > wget "http://mirror.archlinuxarm.org/armv7h/alarm/$UBOOT_TAR"; > > echo "Writing uboot" > tar -xf $UBOOT_TAR -C mnt --exclude='.PKGINFO' --exclude='.MTREE' --exclude='.INSTALL' > sync > dd if=mnt/boot/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=$CARD bs=1024 seek=8 > sync > -------------------- > > > > No doubt Triode had good reason to hard code this file name, but it's > changed and no longer exists at > http://mirror.archlinuxarm.org/armv7h/alarm/ > > The latest version is uboot-cubietruck-2015.01-5-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz > > The second snippet of code above does not include any test to see if > the UBOOT download failed or not, so the script just proceeds > regardless. If it failed the install should abort with a message. > Triode could easily sort this out. In the meantime, the UBOOT file > name can be fixed manually by editing this script, It's easy to do in > Linux as root: > > 1. Mount installer img as a loop device, eg: > > > Code: -------------------- > > > mount -o loop,offset=$((2048*512)) soa-image-cubietruck.img /mnt > -------------------- > > > > 2. Navigate to install scripts directory: > > > Code: -------------------- > > > cd /mnt/scripts > -------------------- > > > > 3. Use your preferred editor to change the UBOOT file name in > create-sdcard-soa-cubietruck.sh e.g: > > > Code: -------------------- > > > nano create-sdcard-soa-cubietruck.sh > -------------------- > > > > At line 5, change > "UBOOT_TAR=uboot-cubietruck-2014.04-10-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz" to > "UBOOT_TAR=uboot-cubietruck-2015.01-5-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz" , and save > the change. > > (This is correct at time of writing, it may change at any time, so > check for current name here: > http://mirror.archlinuxarm.org/armv7h/alarm/ ) > > 4. Umount img, e.g : > > > Code: -------------------- > > > cd / > umount /mnt > -------------------- > > > > 5. Write modified installer img to SD card as normal. > > Hopefully, you or someone else can make this change and re-test the > installer and see if the failure was due to this simple problem. > > -EDIT: THERE'S ONE OTHER LINE THAT LOOKED ODD TO ME. AT LINE 15 IT > SAYS:- > > Code: -------------------- > > > echo -e "u\no\nn\np\n1\n24576\n\nw" | fdisk $CARD > /dev/null > -------------------- > > > > The installer requires a 4gb ,or greater, sd card size. AFAIK, this > command looks odd as it starts with a "U" which sets displayerd units > to cylinders. So it attempts to create a single partition starting at > cylinder 24576. A 4GB SD card has only a 509 cylinders. I think you > could safely change this command to: > > > Code: -------------------- > > > echo -e "o\nn\np\n1\n2048\n\nw" | fdisk $CARD > /dev/null > -------------------- > >
Krisbee, I will try this later in the week. I have just spent 3hrs trying to make a live Linux usb stick to do it. Something must be going wrong as two different OS's and two different methods of making the distro don't work. I've given up at the moment, can't be arsed lol. Thanks for your efforts. atb Ronnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Man in a van's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43627 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101624 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
