Gordon, I have Debian working now on the Sheeva Plug. Could I plug a 2nd SD card into the USB port and then move the kernel and initrd onto the boot partition of the new SD card? If I need dracut to build the initrd, can I do that from Debian? and then later swap cards after putting the rootfs into the 2nd partition and updating the uboot variables (which I don't yet have specific for)?
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/05/2012 03:42 PM, Tom Lynn wrote: > >> I second the question. I'm looking for Sheeva Plug secret sauce! :-) >> > > I can't recite the uboot variable settings off the top of my head (will > cover this in a wiki article when I find a few minutes to spare), but in a > nutshell, have a smallish (e.g. 128MB) partition for /boot, and format it > as ext2 (NOT ext3/4) or FAT16 - I seem to remember that the uboot on > SheevaPlug, even after updating it to add support for booting off the SD > card, had some issues with it's understanding of more advanced ext* FS > format (and issues with understanding subdirectories, IIRC). > > Extract the rootfs onto another partition on the SD card (ext4 is > recommended, I usually disable the journal, too, to reduce the volume of > writes). Put the kernel and initrd in place (you should be able to use the > ResSleeve RPM kernel package for the SheevaPlug but you may need a native > ARM machine to get dracut to build the initrd). You can also use the kernel > that ships with the plug to get it running initially before switching to > the RedSleeve kernel. > > Other than that, it's just a case of configuring the uboot variables to > boot the kernel off the SD card, set the console to serial, and tell the > kernel where the rootfs is. > > Gordan > > ______________________________**_________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.redsleeve.org/**mailman/listinfo/users<http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users> >
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