I got a friend to lend me a PI for a week ...
I had a quick look at the community links for slackware on the PI but none
really tell me what i want to know:
what does the GPU look for in the SD ? (as fas as I know it's the GPU that
loads stuff from SD into memory and then passes control to it)
does it look for a second stage boot loader like a uboot image or does it load
kernel and initrd ? (bootcode.bin)
I'm supposing that the first partition (the dos one) is where this stuff should
be put ?
The content in there looks about right:
root@darkstar:/tmp# fdisk -l slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.img
Disk slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.img: 2558 MB, 2558967808 bytes
4 heads, 32 sectors/track, 39046 cylinders, total 4997984 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00007091
Device Boot Start End Blocks
Id System
slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.img1 32 97663 48816
c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.img2 97664 878847 390592
82 Linux swap
slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.img3 878848 15751167 7436160
83 Linux
root@darkstar:/tmp# echo $((32 * 512))
16384
root@darkstar:/tmp# losetup -o 16384 /dev/loop0
slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.img
root@darkstar:/tmp# modprobe vfat
root@darkstar:/tmp# mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/floppy/
root@darkstar:/tmp# ls /mnt/floppy/
COPYING.linux* config-raspberrypi-3.2.27* start.elf*
LICENCE.broadcom* config.txt* start_cd.elf*
System.map-raspberrypi-3.2.27* fixup.dat*
zImage-raspberrypi-3.2.27*
bootcode.bin* fixup_cd.dat*
cmdline.txt* initrd-raspberrypi.img*
root@darkstar:/tmp#
I plan to play a little with a miniroot so I won't need an 8Gb SD :)
ATB
David
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