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
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