I’d really prefer to have Redsleeve locally, and running R-Pi image on Dreamplug would be awesome. I’m running Redsleeve on the Raspberry model released last summer and I’m very happy with it.
Which R-Pi image would you recommend for Dreamplug? Many thanks, ioan > On Feb 14, 2015, at 8:28 PM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 02/14/2015 11:13 AM, Ioan Stan wrote: >> Hi Gordan, >> >> Many thanks for the quick reply. So, redsleeve on Dreamplug does not boot >> from NFS server but from local micro or SD card, am I right? > > It can boot from either, depends on what you want and how you configured it. > The instructions on the wiki are for DHCP/TFT/NFS booting because that was > what I was setting up at a time. > >> If so, do I need to prepare the micro/SD card in any way (any format, >> partitions)? > > Of course, same as you would do for putting it on any other ARM device. You > could, for example, take the R-Pi image, dd that to a clean SD card, add the > kernel uimage, uinitrd and /lib/modules for the appropriate kernel, adjust > the uboot parameters and /etc/fstab to match, and it should work. > >> And in the setenv below given in >> http://wiki.redsleeve.org/index.php/KirkwoodPlug, I will actually replace >> /dev/nfs with /dev/sda3 (or sdb3). >> >> setenv bootargs_root rw root=/dev/nfs >> nfsroot=10.10.1.3:/nfsroot/sheeva1,proto=tcp ip=dhcp > > If you want the rootfs to be on the SD card, you would need to replace that > whole line with something like: > > setenv bootargs_root ro root=/dev/sda3 > > You will also need to modify /etc/fstab on the rootfs. > > If you want the kernel to also come from the SD card you will need to change > the bootcmd in uboot (setenv bootcmd) to load the kernel from there. I don't > recall the exact incantation of uboot you will need for this off the top of > my head - most DreamPlugs come with helper macros already pre-defined, so you > would only need to modify those slightly, depending on whether you are > booting from the internal or external SD card. > > Gordan > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users
