Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 12:18 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: * create a modified netinst-initrd that uses usb0 ethernet gadget *blind* (no console!!) which gets far enough on its own to do DHCP client * also pre-install some sort of service (ssh? busybox telnet? other?) which allows an

Re: Anyone got Wheezy running on a Dreamplug?

2013-05-19 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 22:07 +0100, Mike Howard wrote: u-boot update process I've used on both older and newer versions of the DP is as follows; # Following 3 steps can be done on or off the DP # Modify to suit the u-boot you require wget http://fav

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread Rtp
luke.leighton luke.leigh...@gmail.com writes: Hi, On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 12:18 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: * create a modified netinst-initrd that uses usb0 ethernet gadget *blind* (no console!!) which gets far enough on

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 10:37 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 12:18 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: * create a modified netinst-initrd that uses usb0 ethernet gadget *blind* (no console!!) which gets far

Re: Anyone got Wheezy running on a Dreamplug?

2013-05-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 19:00 +0100, Tixy wrote: On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 11:40 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: Hi Tixy, On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 09:24 +0100, Tixy wrote: Does anyone know of any foolproof method of getting Wheezy running on a Dreamplug? I believe this requires upgrading

Re: Anyone got Wheezy running on a Dreamplug?

2013-05-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 09:24 +0100, Tixy wrote: Also, a U-Boot that supports FDT would be required should I want to run Testing which will have the multi-platform kernel. Unless they are going to build that with CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB, which I hope they don't as that's a hack and isn't

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread luke.leighton
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Arnaud Patard arnaud.pat...@rtp-net.org wrote: luke.leighton luke.leigh...@gmail.com writes: Hi, On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 12:18 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: * create a modified

Re: Anyone got Wheezy running on a Dreamplug?

2013-05-19 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 12:33 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 19:00 +0100, Tixy wrote: On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 11:40 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: Hi Tixy, On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 09:24 +0100, Tixy wrote: Does anyone know of any foolproof method of getting Wheezy running

Re: Anyone got Wheezy running on a Dreamplug?

2013-05-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 14:41 +0100, Tixy wrote: On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 12:33 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: You may have (harmlessly) ended up appending the DTB twice since I think the installer uImage has it already there... It doesn't, I just checked, and if it did have the DreamPlug dtb it

Re: Anyone got Wheezy running on a Dreamplug?

2013-05-19 Thread Mike Howard
On 19/05/2013 09:24, Tixy wrote: On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 22:07 +0100, Mike Howard wrote: u-boot update process I've used on both older and newer versions of the DP is as follows; # Following 3 steps can be done on or off the DP # Modify to suit the u-boot you require wget http://fav

Re: Anyone got Wheezy running on a Dreamplug?

2013-05-19 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 15:12 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 14:41 +0100, Tixy wrote: On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 12:33 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: You may have (harmlessly) ended up appending the DTB twice since I think the installer uImage has it already there... It

Re: Anyone got Wheezy running on a Dreamplug?

2013-05-19 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 11:40 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 09:24 +0100, Tixy wrote: My attempts to debrick using openocd and the JTAG module were the same as another user [3] even when I scripted power cycling and openocd to run in a loop a to try and get the timing

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread luke.leighton
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: I don't know if the password thing is because ssh just doesn't let you use no password or if it's because the normal use case here is on regular Ethernet. In any case it doesn't seem like a blocker for a first pass and

Re: Anyone got Wheezy running on a Dreamplug?

2013-05-19 Thread Mike Howard
On 19/05/2013 18:59, Tixy wrote: On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 17:13 +0100, Mike Howard wrote: Well if you don't want it, I'll gladly take it off your hands. You very near did get them, but having managed to finally de-brick my original DreamPlug I think I'll persevere with them. Perhaps I can

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread Wookey
+++ luke.leighton [2013-05-19 10:37 +0100]: On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: Sounds like you want a network-console flavour image, like the ones used for kirkwood, http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-41x/install/ it does, doesn't it?

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: +++ luke.leighton [2013-05-19 10:37 +0100]: On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: Sounds like you want a network-console flavour image, like the ones used for kirkwood,

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
woo! how exciting! and novel. having serial console access to boot log. Setting up filesystem, please wait ... pivot_root: Invalid argument 0Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0100 ahh, i am sooo happy to see that. an error message. a real live error message.

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 23:54 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: woo! how exciting! and novel. having serial console access to boot log. Setting up filesystem, please wait ... pivot_root: Invalid argument 0Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0100