The Netstix will soon be bootable off of the Compact Flash out of the box. Now that this critical issue has been resolved, will there be Netstix-compatible Compact Flash images released for 0.4.4?
Of course people with older versions of the Netstix with the version of U-Boot that supports Compact Flash will have to change the bootcmd as described in: http://docwiki.gumstix.org/Root_filesystems People with even older versions of the Netstix will have to update the factory U-Boot and root filesystem which is described here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.gumstix.general/8544/matc h=flashcp If this does not work, you are stuck with either buying a serial port adapter and opening the box or sending the Netstix back to Gumstix for reflashing. Mind you, I do not actually have a Netstix yet, but I have been doing a lot of research into the issues of Astlinux on Netstix. Do not ask me any questions about the upgrade because I have not done this myself. On the Netstix, it would be really great to mount the filesystem on the onboard flash. That way, the web backup script (backup.php) can be modified to put a copy of the backup onto both /mnt/kd and the mounted filesystem on the onboard flash. By this simple change, you have multiple redundant backups in case of flash failure. Here is a copy of the response from Gumstix: ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:45:46 -0700 From: Craig Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] Current Netstix Flash Image? To: "General mailing list for gumstix users." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Oct 26, 2006, at 2:24 PM, D. S. wrote: > Does the current shipping Netstix contain the latest U-Boot to support > Compact Flash? Yes > Is the bootcmd already set to look for gumstix-factory.script on a > Compact Flash? No > I want to avoid having to take the extra step of setting this up > since the > Netstix only comes with Compact Flash. > In my opinion, it should be ready out of the box to boot an image and > filesystem off of the Compact Flash. It will be in future revisions. > If both of these questions are not true for the current shipping > Netstix, is > there a plan to do it and when? I have a patch which is being tested now which does this. It will be committed to the buildroot in the next few days, and will be in the next flash image which will go onto gumstix manufactured probably starting with our November build, ie for sale starting around the end of november (plus or minus leftover October inventory which will get shipped out first). C ------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- D. S. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
