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 > -------------------- > >
Good News: With help from Chris I have managed to install SoA on my Cubietruck. Also LMS v7.8.0. Bad News: When I clicked on the Squeeze Server Web Interface I got the web gui but before I could do any configuration I lost network connection. I installed an Edimax wireless usb adaptor and tried a hard restart but when I clicked "save" for the wireless set up, lost all connection. A second hard restart reminded me of that line about "only a fool repeats something that fails" (or something like that) from Mr E. And a third one produced nothing, doh!! Now this morning my hummingboard SoA also dropped off the Network, but came back up after a hard restart (pull the plug and re-plug) and seems to be running OK. Don't know about the House of Denmark but the House of SoA needs a little TLC methinks, me odd bodkin :p Much respekt to Chris 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
