hi , i see your comment for rootfs. 
i did it already now , i want to copy my new gpio module as welll as .ko 
file to it , and again want to boot from sdcard , what will the procedure 
for it. Please reply asap 

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On Monday, April 30, 2012 at 1:38:22 AM UTC-7, goldpeer wrote:
>
> you need to install customized kernel on rootfs not FAT
> would you try to 
>
> make -j8 ARCH=arm modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/dev/sdb2 % your 
> rootfs device
>
> ?
>
>
> On 30 April 2012 02:42, asp5 <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I recently got a Beagle-board xm pre-installed with Angstrom Linux.
>>
>> Here are the contents of the SD card: 
>>
>> /media/Narcissus-rootfs$ ls
>> bin   dev  home  lost+found  mmc  narcissus-was-here  sbin  tmp   usr
>> boot  etc  lib   media       mnt  proc                sys   usb1  var
>>
>> /media/boot$ ls
>> MLO  U-BOOT.BIN  uEnv.txt  UIMAGE
>>
>>
>> I wanted to build a custom Linux Kernel. I got the kernel sources
>>  linux-3.2.2
>>
>> did the following:
>>
>> make -j8 ARCH=arm uImage
>>   CHK     kernel/config_data.h
>>   Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready
>>   Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready
>>   Image arch/arm/boot/uImage is ready  
>>
>> I removed the existing UIMAGE from the FAT partition of the SD CARD and 
>> copied the newly built uImage *(is that sufficient or do I have to 
>> format the card and then copy all the files ?)*.
>>
>> make -j8 ARCH=arm modules
>>   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>>   Building modules, stage 2.
>>   MODPOST 36 modules
>>
>> make -j8 ARCH=arm modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=~/Desktop/emb_linux/
>> make_modules_install
>>   INSTALL sound/usb/snd-usb-audio.ko
>>   INSTALL sound/usb/snd-usbmidi-lib.ko
>>   DEPMOD  3.2.2_omap2_bg_train
>>
>> Here are the contents of the make_modules_install directory:
>> $ ls lib/modules/3.2.2_omap2_bg_train/
>> build              modules.builtin.bin  modules.ieee1394map  modules.pcimap 
>>       modules.usbmap
>> kernel             modules.ccwmap       modules.inputmap     
>> modules.seriomap 
>>     source
>> modules.alias      modules.dep          modules.isapnpmap    modules.
>> softdep
>> modules.alias.bin  modules.dep.bin      modules.ofmap        modules.
>> symbols
>> modules.builtin    modules.devname      modules.order        modules.
>> symbols.bin
>>
>>
>> What I'm not able to figure out is how do I install the rootfs on the SD 
>> card? All the examples I found online were using a pre-compiled rootfs 
>> (like 
>>
>> Angstrom-Beagleboard-demo-image-*.rootfs.tar.bz2 
>> <http://downloads.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/Angstrom-Beagleboard-demo-image-glibc-ipk-2011.1-beagleboard.rootfs.tar.bz2>)
>>  , and just uncompress this file to the SD card does the trick. In my case 
>> how do I find
>>
>> the files that need to be installed on the SD card. Is there a tool that 
>> generates the rootfs for the kernel that I'm compiling?
>> How do I copy the programs I compiled on to the SD card so that I can have 
>> them on the rootfs when I bring up the beagle board.
>>
>>
>>
>> (using Ubuntu 12.04 as the host system, Minicom to view the serial port 
>> interface)
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> asp5. 
>>
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