D. S. wrote:
> 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.
>
DS,
There won't be any Gumstix images released in 0.4.x.
There had to be significant changes to the build system in order to
enable building Gumstix root file systems.
0.5 releases will include Gumstix targeted file systems. There is no
anticipated release date for 0.5, although it shouldn't be too long.
Once 0.5 has been released there will be jffs2/CF images with updated
u-boot, gumstix.factory script, and documentation.
--
Kristian Kielhofner
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