Dreamplug, unable to authenticate on wifi AP.

2021-10-18 Thread agriveaux
Hello, I have some difficults to get wifi working on a dreamplug SBC, i can list wifi network with nmcli : sudo nmcli device wifi list IN-USE BSSID SSID MODE CHAN RATESIGNAL BARS SECURITY Turris Infra 6 270 Mbit/s

Re: Dreamplug support

2021-02-24 Thread Alexandre GRIVEAUX
Le 23/02/2021 à 08:07, Gérald Kerma a écrit : Hello [%]<\@~{ Hello, U-boot launch a uImage and uImage use uInitrd ? Wrong, you lust load and specify initrd from uboot... Look at https://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install/

Re: Dreamplug support

2021-02-22 Thread Alexandre GRIVEAUX
could find no block devices, presumably because the kernel does not have the USB or MMC/SD drivers loaded. This a problem because the kernel was a Debian kernel, that could indicate Dreamplug build is wrong. Most likely this means that it failed to unpack the initramfs for some reason, see in the

Dreamplug support

2021-02-22 Thread Alexandre GRIVEAUX
Hello, I've tried installing Debian on a dreamplug with the last buster files without success (upgrading u-boot, automatic partitioning, etc...), after that i've tried installer of stretch, buster and bullseye: For that i created a sdcard with this files: => fatls usb

Re: Dreamplug support

2021-02-22 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
W dniu 22.02.2021 o 09:17, Alexandre GRIVEAUX pisze: I've tried installing Debian on a dreamplug with the last buster files without success (upgrading u-boot, automatic partitioning, etc...), after that i've tried installer of stretch, buster and bullseye: [..] I admit I do mo

Re: Dreamplug support

2021-02-22 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 9:17 AM Alexandre GRIVEAUX wrote: > > Replacing x_bootcmd_kernel=fatload usb 0 0x640 uImage by > x_bootcmd_kernel=ext2load usb 0 0x640 uImage or x_bootcmd_kernel=ext4load > usb 0 0x640 uImage > > But the only most result i was getting is: > > > [ 10.724017]

Dreamplug fails to detect SPI and USB

2019-02-26 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2019-02-26, Leigh Brown wrote: > I tested u-boot 2019.01+dfsg-1 on my Globalscale Dreamplug and it > doesn't work: > > U-Boot 2019.01+dfsg-1 (Jan 15 2019 - 00:36:19 +) > Marvell-DreamPlug > > SoC: Kirkwood 88F6281_A1 > DRAM: 512 MiB > Loading Environment

Re: Ethernet down on DreamPlug installer

2016-08-14 Thread Philippe Clérié
😁 Talk about good timing! It was the cable, man. The bloody, stupid thing had 4 wires. I only noticed yesterday. So this morning I switched cables, and off we go. 😇 Thank you very much for the support... Of course, it's a mystery to me why the 4 missing wires which are not used anyway should stop t

Re: Ethernet down on DreamPlug installer

2016-08-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Philippe Clérié [2016-07-15 13:14]: > >>I have been unable to bring up Debian on my DreamPlug with recent Jessie and > >>Stretch installers. That DreamPlug has been in use for several years now > >>with no problems. > > > >Does this problem still exis

Re: Ethernet down on DreamPlug installer

2016-07-15 Thread Philippe Clérié
On 07/15/2016 10:02 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Philippe Clérié [2016-06-15 18:40]: I have been unable to bring up Debian on my DreamPlug with recent Jessie and Stretch installers. That DreamPlug has been in use for several years now with no problems. Does this problem still exist? It

Re: Ethernet down on DreamPlug installer

2016-07-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Philippe Clérié [2016-06-15 18:40]: > I have been unable to bring up Debian on my DreamPlug with recent Jessie and > Stretch installers. That DreamPlug has been in use for several years now > with no problems. Does this problem still exist? (IIRC, there was a problem with DreaPlug

Ethernet down on DreamPlug installer

2016-06-15 Thread Philippe Clérié
I have been unable to bring up Debian on my DreamPlug with recent Jessie and Stretch installers. That DreamPlug has been in use for several years now with no problems. Anyway, here is the sequence of events, as it were: - eth0 is plugged into a switch - Plug in to power - uboot starts but

Re: modprobe fuse fails after upgrade to Jessie 8.3 on Dreamplug (Kirkwood)

2016-02-16 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 10:53 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 08:11 +, Tixy wrote: > > On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 00:28 +0100, Martin Granehäll wrote: > > [...] > > > When I ran flash-kernel tool manually I saw that new uImage and > > > uInitrd files were generated, but not in /boot

Re: Re: modprobe fuse fails after upgrade to Jessie 8.3 on Dreamplug (Kirkwood)

2016-02-16 Thread Martin Granehäll
So, it all ends up with uncommenting these two lines in /etc/flash-kernel/db. Amazing. #Machine: Globalscale Technologies Dreamplug #Boot-Device: /dev/sdb1 Thanks a lot everyone! -Martin

Re: modprobe fuse fails after upgrade to Jessie 8.3 on Dreamplug (Kirkwood)

2016-02-16 Thread Ian Campbell
override the /usr/share version. > > For entry under "Machine: Globalscale Technologies Dreamplug" > > Replace > > Boot-Device: /dev/sda1 > Boot-Kernel-Path: uImage > Boot-Initrd-Path: uInitrd

Re: modprobe fuse fails after upgrade to Jessie 8.3 on Dreamplug (Kirkwood)

2016-02-16 Thread Tixy
ave the same setup and so edited flash-kernel to match, here's my notes... Edit /usr/share/flash-kernel/db/all.db For entry under "Machine: Globalscale Technologies Dreamplug" Replace Boot-Device: /dev/sda1 Boot-Kernel-Pat

Re: modprobe fuse fails after upgrade to Jessie 8.3 on Dreamplug (Kirkwood)

2016-02-15 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
ntical layout as sdb? Then maybe it's unfortunate that the flash-kernel database specifies Boot-Device: /dev/sda1 for the dreamplug. Maybe U-Boot just falls back to sdb if no sd card is present? Then probably the device that is called sdb now is available as sda? > This was the output

Re: modprobe fuse fails after upgrade to Jessie 8.3 on Dreamplug (Kirkwood)

2016-02-15 Thread Martin Granehäll
Thanks a lot for helping me out here. I have managed to solve it, or at least found a workaround. The system uses u-boot, and picks uImage and uInitrd from an external sd card at boot time. When I ran flash-kernel tool manually I saw that new uImage and uInitrd files were generated, but not in /

Re: modprobe fuse fails after upgrade to Jessie 8.3 on Dreamplug (Kirkwood)

2016-02-15 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hallo, On 02/15/2016 01:29 PM, Martin Granehäll wrote: > _sources.list:_ > # deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ jessie main > deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib > deb-src http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib > deb http://security.debian.org

Re: modprobe fuse fails after upgrade to Jessie 8.3 on Dreamplug (Kirkwood)

2016-02-15 Thread Martin Granehäll
​​Hello. *sources.list:* # deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ jessie main deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://se

Re: modprobe fuse fails after upgrade to Jessie 8.3 on Dreamplug (Kirkwood)

2016-02-15 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hello Martin, On 02/15/2016 10:33 AM, Martin Granehäll wrote: > Thanks. Yes, I rebooted. that means that you rebooted and are still unable to load the fuse module? > But this indicates I somehow didn't get the latest kernel update after all? What is in your apt sources.list? What is the output

Re: modprobe fuse fails after upgrade to Jessie 8.3 on Dreamplug (Kirkwood)

2016-02-15 Thread Martin Granehäll
Thanks. Yes, I rebooted. But this indicates I somehow didn't get the latest kernel update after all? -Martin 2016-02-15 10:05 GMT+01:00 Uwe Kleine-König : > Hello Martin, > > On 02/15/2016 12:53 AM, Martin Granehäll wrote: > > I have used fuse successfully on the Dreamplug

Re: modprobe fuse fails after upgrade to Jessie 8.3 on Dreamplug (Kirkwood)

2016-02-15 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hello Martin, On 02/15/2016 12:53 AM, Martin Granehäll wrote: > I have used fuse successfully on the Dreamplug with Jessie 8.2 but after > last update to 8.3, the kernel module doesn't load. > Does latest version of fuse depend on later kernel, or could something > be wrong

modprobe fuse fails after upgrade to Jessie 8.3 on Dreamplug (Kirkwood)

2016-02-14 Thread Martin Granehäll
I have used fuse successfully on the Dreamplug with Jessie 8.2 but after last update to 8.3, the kernel module doesn't load. Does latest version of fuse depend on later kernel, or could something be wrong with my installed kernel? # modprobe fuse modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'fuse

Re: Bug#804351: installation-reports: Stretch installer-armel (2015-10-23) does not see storage devices on Dreamplug

2015-11-28 Thread Ian Campbell
d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/daily/kirkwood/netboot/mar > vell/ > > or at least my dreamplug is OK in recovery mode with the one from 2 > days ago. > > > > This will then propagate to Stretch with the next d-i alpha/beta. > > > > Ian > > Hi Ian, >

Re: Bug#804351: installation-reports: Stretch installer-armel (2015-10-23) does not see storage devices on Dreamplug

2015-11-28 Thread James Valleroy
On 11/28/2015 07:04 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2015-11-12 at 06:50 -0500, James Valleroy wrote: > > Hi James, > > I think this should be fixed in the latest dailies from > http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/daily/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/ > or at least my dreamp

Re: Bug#804351: installation-reports: Stretch installer-armel (2015-10-23) does not see storage devices on Dreamplug

2015-11-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2015-11-12 at 06:50 -0500, James Valleroy wrote: Hi James, I think this should be fixed in the latest dailies from http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/daily/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/ or at least my dreamplug is OK in recovery mode with the one from 2 days ago. This will then

Re: Bug#804351: installation-reports: Stretch installer-armel (2015-10-23) does not see storage devices on Dreamplug

2015-11-12 Thread James Valleroy
ping to a > shell? > Nope...I get different results even if I drop to a shell immediately. > >> Strangely, my Dreamplug is also hanging at hw-detect step now. (I didn't >> see this previously.) > It's not impossible that this is related, since I would expect hw-dete

Re: Bug#804351: installation-reports: Stretch installer-armel (2015-10-23) does not see storage devices on Dreamplug

2015-11-12 Thread Ian Campbell
(randomly?): Might just be to do with how far through d-i you go before dropping to a shell? > Strangely, my Dreamplug is also hanging at hw-detect step now. (I didn't > see this previously.) It's not impossible that this is related, since I would expect hw-detect to responsible

Re: Bug#804351: installation-reports: Stretch installer-armel (2015-10-23) does not see storage devices on Dreamplug

2015-11-11 Thread James Valleroy
mvmdio libphy 23336 2 mvmdio,of_mdio Strangely, my Dreamplug is also hanging at hw-detect step now. (I didn't see this previously.) -- James signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#804351: installation-reports: Stretch installer-armel (2015-10-23) does not see storage devices on Dreamplug

2015-11-11 Thread Ian Campbell
her storage device is visible. Comparing the lsmod output from your two sets of logs (with grep lsmod hardware-summary) the lists of modules are very different, specifically at least ehci_hcd and ehci_orion are not loaded (IIRC the internal microSD is behind a USB device too on dreamplug). There&#

installation-reports: Stretch installer-armel (2015-10-23) does not see storage devices on Dreamplug

2015-11-07 Thread James Valleroy
The installers were downloaded from: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/dreamplug/ http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/dreamplug/ Marvell>> version U-B

Re: DreamPlug-jessie troubles

2014-10-20 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-10-19 at 14:56 +, Clint Adams wrote: > The problematic configuration (which I guess worked with wheezy as > a no-op?) included an ext2load of /boot/dtb and passing that address > to bootm. My guess is that Wheezy's u-boot was ignoring the third argument. Glad it's sorted. Cheers

Re: DreamPlug-jessie troubles

2014-10-19 Thread Clint Adams
t mean "didn't give one in the bootloader"? Do your I meant bootm with two arguments instead of three. > kernels have one appended? IIRC dreamplug never had board-file support > so a dtb must be coming from somewhere. > > The uImage header is 64 bytes so the uImage s

Re: DreamPlug-jessie troubles

2014-10-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-10-19 at 15:43 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Perhaps one of those new options is the difference. Having now looked at the help text in the kernel, I'm now doubtful that it is... Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: DreamPlug-jessie troubles

2014-10-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-10-19 at 14:01 +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 01:31:34PM +, Clint Adams wrote: > > If I boot the wheezy kernel with initrd and no dtb it boots fine. > > Er, so if I do the same with the jessie kernel (uImage, uInitrd, no dtb), > it works too. > > I'm quite co

Re: DreamPlug-jessie troubles

2014-10-19 Thread Ian Campbell
otloader"? Do your kernels have one appended? IIRC dreamplug never had board-file support so a dtb must be coming from somewhere. The uImage header is 64 bytes so the uImage should either be sizeof(vmlinuz)+64 or sizeof(vmlinuz)+sizeof(dtb)+64. OOI what happens if you boot the Jessie

Re: DreamPlug-jessie troubles

2014-10-19 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 01:31:34PM +, Clint Adams wrote: > If I boot the wheezy kernel with initrd and no dtb it boots fine. Er, so if I do the same with the jessie kernel (uImage, uInitrd, no dtb), it works too. I'm quite confused. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debi

Re: DreamPlug-jessie troubles

2014-10-19 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 02:30:58PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Another datapoint which might be of interest: > # lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img | grep \\.ko > lib/modules/3.16-2-kirkwood/kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko > lib/modules/3.16-2-kirkwood/kernel/fs/mbcache.ko > lib/modules/3.16-2-kirkwood/kernel/fs

Re: DreamPlug-jessie troubles

2014-10-19 Thread Clint Adams
2 (2014-09-20) [0.00] CPU: Feroceon 88FR131 [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=0005397f [0.00] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache [0.00] Machine model: Globalscale Technologies Dreamplug [0.00] bootconsole [earlycon0] enabled [0.00] Memory policy: D

Re: DreamPlug-jessie troubles

2014-10-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-10-19 at 12:13 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: Another datapoint which might be of interest: # lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img | grep \\.ko lib/modules/3.16-2-kirkwood/kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko lib/modules/3.16-2-kirkwood/kernel/fs/mbcache.ko lib/modules/3.16-2-kirkwood/kernel/fs/jbd2/jbd2.ko li

Re: DreamPlug-jessie troubles

2014-10-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2014-10-18 at 22:41 +, Clint Adams wrote: > I just upgraded my DreamPlug to jessie. The jessie kernel booted > happily with wheezy u-boot, but when I upgraded to the jessie u-boot, > I get a can't-find-root-device panic. Fortunately, it can boot > the wheezy kern

DreamPlug-jessie troubles

2014-10-18 Thread Clint Adams
I just upgraded my DreamPlug to jessie. The jessie kernel booted happily with wheezy u-boot, but when I upgraded to the jessie u-boot, I get a can't-find-root-device panic. Fortunately, it can boot the wheezy kernel, but what am I doing wrong? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm

Re: [Bulk] Re: Dreamplug - debian installer

2014-06-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 22:38 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 21:43 +0100, Linus Gasser wrote: > > Le 25/06/14 13:00, Ian Campbell a écrit : > > > So I'm afraid either the issue is something strange on you and your > > > friend's end or we'll have to wait for someone else to trip o

Re: [Bulk] Re: Dreamplug - debian installer

2014-06-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 21:43 +0100, Linus Gasser wrote: > Le 25/06/14 13:00, Ian Campbell a écrit : > > So I'm afraid either the issue is something strange on you and your > > friend's end or we'll have to wait for someone else to trip over it who > > is willing to work with us to provide the kind o

Re: [Bulk] Re: Dreamplug - debian installer

2014-06-26 Thread Linus Gasser
Le 25/06/14 13:00, Ian Campbell a écrit : So I'm afraid either the issue is something strange on you and your friend's end or we'll have to wait for someone else to trip over it who is willing to work with us to provide the kind of detail needed to figure out what is actually going on. Sorry to

Re: [Bulk] Re: Dreamplug - debian installer

2014-06-25 Thread Ian Campbell
Do you not want to install Debian on your dreamplug? > > > > Ian. > > > > > I can't help the way you read. > > I went through the process to help out a friend who was trying to > install his dreamplug but the debian installer would not work for him. > S

Re: [Bulk] Re: Dreamplug - debian installer

2014-06-25 Thread Michael Howard
On 25/06/2014 07:58, Ian Campbell wrote: https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2014/06/msg00093.html reads to me as "this doesn't work for me, please help". Was it intended as something else? Do you not want to install Debian on your dreamplug? Ian. I can't help the w

Re: Dreamplug - debian installer

2014-06-24 Thread Ian Campbell
ting the wheezy installer from > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/dreamplug/ > > > > with "U-Boot 2012.04.01 (Jun 01 2012 - 02:17:08)" which is the u-boot > > from the Wheezy u-boot package u-boot

Re: Dreamplug - debian installer

2014-06-24 Thread Michael Howard
the same point. I can't remember the last time I did a 'fresh' install to say when it last worked here. I've just tried booting the wheezy installer from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/dreamplug/ with "U

Re: Dreamplug - debian installer

2014-06-24 Thread Ian Campbell
gt; remember the last time I did a 'fresh' install to say when it last > worked here. I've just tried booting the wheezy installer from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/dreamplug/ with "U-Boot 2012.04.01 (

Re: Dreamplug - debian installer

2014-06-24 Thread Michael Howard
On 24/06/2014 13:55, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 07:58 +0100, Michael Howard wrote: On 18/06/2014 19:41, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 17:46 +0100, Michael Howard wrote: Anybody tried a standard 'debian-installer' install recently on the Dreamplug? No

Re: Dreamplug - debian installer

2014-06-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 07:58 +0100, Michael Howard wrote: > On 18/06/2014 19:41, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 17:46 +0100, Michael Howard wrote: > >> Anybody tried a standard 'debian-installer' install recently on the > >> Dreamplug? > >

Re: Dreamplug - debian installer

2014-06-18 Thread Michael Howard
On 18/06/2014 19:41, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 17:46 +0100, Michael Howard wrote: Anybody tried a standard 'debian-installer' install recently on the Dreamplug? Not recently. I'm about to leave on a trip so I won't have time to try anything until ne

Re: Dreamplug - debian installer

2014-06-18 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 17:46 +0100, Michael Howard wrote: > Anybody tried a standard 'debian-installer' install recently on the > Dreamplug? Not recently. I'm about to leave on a trip so I won't have time to try anything until next week. > Doesn't work here on

Dreamplug - debian installer

2014-06-18 Thread Michael Howard
Anybody tried a standard 'debian-installer' install recently on the Dreamplug? Doesn't work here on any recent u-boot with any version of debian with _any_ of my three dreamplugs. All I end up with is "Starting kernel ..." I don't even get to see Uncompressin

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2014-01-03 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 17:43 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > Hey > > Sorry for being late to the party, thanks for waiting for me! :-) Sorry for being even later... > The long-term plan was to allow overriding the Boot-Device: by the > end-user (and Ian's patches allow this, albeit I'm afraid

Re: Dreamplug Modern Kernel

2013-11-26 Thread Robert James
what is going on. > > Ian. Apologies. Seems I am using the minority of mailing lists, most of the time, where top posting is encouraged. If you want logs https://sucs.org/~rjames93/Dreamplug/ [1] They can be found here. I've got lots of issues with the bluetooth modules at

Re: Dreamplug Modern Kernel

2013-11-26 Thread Ian Campbell
The etiquette on most mailing lists (including this one) is to bottom- rather than top-post. On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 21:00 +, Robert James wrote: [...] > It flashes the kernel image. Create uImage & uInitrd & their > respective .bak files. This upon reboot does not work, seems unable to > find /

Re: Dreamplug Modern Kernel

2013-11-25 Thread Robert James
After adding backports to the fresh install of wheezy, and I ran apt-get -t wheezy-backports install linux-image-kirkwood Everything runs fine, I get some errors wrt bluetooth and wifi Required Firmware: │btmrvl_sdio: mrvl/sd8897_uapsta.bin, mrvl/sd8797_uapsta.bin, mrvl/sd8787_uapsta.bi

Re: Dreamplug Modern Kernel

2013-11-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 14:02 +, Robert James wrote: > the result of flash-kernel does not boot, in my opinion due to the > kernel rather than flash-kernel doing something wrong. flash-kernel > works with the initrd.img-3.2.0-4-kirkwood & vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-kirkwood. Why aren't you using the Debian

Re: Dreamplug Modern Kernel

2013-11-25 Thread Robert James
able install. Requiring me to open up the console before rebooting, modifying the flash-kernel command to work correctly on the Dreamplug then rerunning Flash-Kernel. After this was complete, I set about trying to get a more recent kernel built and working. After downloading the 3.11.9 kernel from kern

Re: Dreamplug Modern Kernel

2013-11-25 Thread Wookey
+++ Robert James [2013-11-25 11:20 +]: >After a long drawn out fight, I managed to use the installer to make a >working/bootable install. Requiring me to open up the console before >rebooting, modifying the flash-kernel command to work correctly on the > Dreamplug th

Dreamplug Modern Kernel

2013-11-25 Thread Robert James
After a long drawn out fight, I managed to use the installer to make a working/bootable install. Requiring me to open up the console before rebooting, modifying the flash-kernel command to work correctly on the Dreamplug then rerunning Flash-Kernel. After this was complete, I set about trying

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-11-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Paul Kocialkowski [2013-11-14 19:41]: > I initially opened: http://bugs.debian.org/721485 which holds a precise > description of the issue and it was forked, but apparently you took care > of merging the reports into one. Yeah, sorry. I opened my bug report before I noticed that you had opened

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-11-14 Thread Paul Kocialkowski
Le mardi 12 novembre 2013 à 15:42 -0800, Martin Michlmayr a écrit : > * Paul Kocialkowski [2013-09-01 00:05]: > > Running "udevadm trigger" brings the expected UUID, so I think there is > > a problem somewhere in the partitioner tool since it doesn't > > refresh /dev/disk/by-uuid after making an e

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-11-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Paul Kocialkowski [2013-09-01 00:05]: > Running "udevadm trigger" brings the expected UUID, so I think there is > a problem somewhere in the partitioner tool since it doesn't > refresh /dev/disk/by-uuid after making an ext2 partition (but it > probably does it for ext3). Thanks for your bug rep

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
refore, we require users to upgrade u-boot and set specific environment variables. Because the SheevaPlug is hackable, I was never interested in supporting other plug devices (like the PogoPlug), which are not. The GuruPlug and DreamPlug are somewhat inbetween since the JTAG module is external bec

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-10 Thread Stanley Pilton
Sorry if this is repeating myself, but just to ensure I've been understood (and please just view this as one individual user expressing a preference): I wouldn't describe my preference as being to put the burden on the bootloader. I am happy with a simple bootloader with limited capabilities, whi

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Loïc Minier wrote: > Sure, we can put the burden on the bootloader, but we typically dont > have much control over it and it's often limited. > > I'm all for using a bootloader as capable as GRUB on ARM, but I don't > think this is possible yet? Indeed, bootloader

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-09 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Nov 08, 2013, Stanley Pilton wrote: > For our dreamplugs, we want to have an identical bootloader > configuration on each device, and have the behaviour of the system > from the OS up defined by the content of the removable SD card, not > the internal card. In other words, we would like to

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-08 Thread Stanley Pilton
Loïc, Thanks for your input. Some thoughts from a user POV below. For our dreamplugs, we want to have an identical bootloader configuration on each device, and have the behaviour of the system from the OS up defined by the content of the removable SD card, not the internal card. In other words,

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-07 Thread Loïc Minier
Hey Sorry for being late to the party, thanks for waiting for me! :-) On Sat, Nov 02, 2013, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > On most platforms flash-kernel generally prefers to mount the device > > dynamically, for those sorts of reasons. At least that's how I remember > > one of the f-k folks ex

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Ian Campbell [2013-11-04 11:02]: > > Looking at #667681, I see that your original patch put the files in > > /boot but Loïc suggested otherwise. I don't agree with Loïc's > > rationale but I guess I'm 1.5 years late... > > > > If people think it's too late to change the behaviour now, I think

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-04 Thread Ian Campbell
inks, for e.g. the vmlinuz link, I think was the main > > issue). > > But since the Dreamplug has a serial adapter, I think it's ok to > require an u-boot upgrade before installing Debian. Agreed, although my rationale would be the presence of JTAG not serial. I don't know i

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Ian Campbell [2013-11-01 20:19]: > IIRC the main reason is that the factory shipped u-boot can only speak > FAT which isn't really suitable for mounting as /boot (lack of POSIXy > features like symlinks, for e.g. the vmlinuz link, I think was the main > issue). But since th

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Stanley, As a workaround, run the installer again, chroot into the installed system, edit /usr/share/flash-kernel/db/all.db, search for the Dreamplug entry and change Boot-Device: /dev/sda1 to Boot-Device: /dev/sdb1 Then run flash-kernel. The files in /boot should be up to date now

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 17:04 +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Ian Campbell [2013-11-01 08:23]: > > > but from the timestamps on /boot/u{Image,Initrd}, no, these files were > > > not actually updated. > > > > It's possible they ended up on sda1 rather than sdb1? > > Yes, this is what happens. S

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
p/flash-kernel.QO3YSugq Why does it hardcode Boot-Device instead of just putting the files in the mounted /boot partition? (As you can tell, I don't know anything about the Dreamplug.) -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-11-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 21:51 +, Stanley Pilton wrote: > but from the timestamps on /boot/u{Image,Initrd}, no, these files were > not actually updated. It's possible they ended up on sda1 rather than sdb1? IIRC this is hardcoded into flash-kernel in Wheezy. I added an override ability in f-k 3.

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-10-30 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Stanley Pilton [2013-10-28 21:51]: > flash-kernel appeared from its output to be successful: > > Taking backup of uInitrd. > Installing new uInitrd. > Taking backup of dtb. > Installing new dtb. > > but from the timestamps on /boot/u{Image,Initrd}, no, these files were > not ac

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-10-30 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Stanley Pilton [2013-10-29 10:56]: > I should mention that the storage scheme I chose was "use whole disk > and use lvm", which resulted in a partition for /boot and a VG with an > LV for / > > Is this expected to work? Yes. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-10-29 Thread Stanley Pilton
I should mention that the storage scheme I chose was "use whole disk and use lvm", which resulted in a partition for /boot and a VG with an LV for / Is this expected to work? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-10-28 Thread Stanley Pilton
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > On the DreamPlug, the vmlinuz file isn't enough. You also need the > Device Tree blob. Can you run "flash-kernel" and see if that > generates u* images that will boot? Right so to get into an environment

Re: Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-10-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
nstallation work in the first place and is my > technique of generating the images on a PC flawed? On the DreamPlug, the vmlinuz file isn't enough. You also need the Device Tree blob. Can you run "flash-kernel" and see if that generates u* images that will boot? As to why t

Debian 7.0 on Dreamplug basic installation and booting system external sd card

2013-10-28 Thread Stanley Pilton
I'm trying to install Debian 7.0 to a dreamplug, using the SD card slot on the device, rather than the internal card. I followed [1]. The installation appeared to go okay, but when it came to booting the newly installed system, the image files didn't exist. I popped the SD card int

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-09-14 Thread Paul Kocialkowski
Le dimanche 01 septembre 2013 à 00:05 +0200, Paul Kocialkowski a écrit : > Well, it turns out my guess was the right one! I enabled ssh on the > installation and monitored syslog as the installation went and I found > the following message: > > Aug 31 21:54:52 in-target: update-initramfs: > Genera

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-08-31 Thread Paul Kocialkowski
ean the ones I generated using my > computer and uploaded to the Dreamplug to make it boot the first time). > > However I didn't get the error message that's supposed to come before > (read _ignored). So I might very well be wrong, but there is no doubt > the issue happens wh

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-08-31 Thread Paul Kocialkowski
ole thing hang (read _ignored) in the installer context. It is called as a hook when generating the initramfs. It seems like a long shot since this case is not supposed to be reached, but I also noticed that the images I generated on the working installation wouldn't boot without the root

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-08-31 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 21:08 +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: > Le samedi 31 août 2013 à 20:01 +0100, Ian Campbell a écrit : > > > In any case, there is a bug there -- my guess is that > > > flash-kernel-installer hangs because of the partitioning layout for some > > > reason. Note that running flash

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-08-31 Thread Paul Kocialkowski
nding a workaround for me or seriously > > fixing the issue down to the code and releasing a new installer image > > for wheezy? > > That's what we have been doing, isn't it? Basically, I had in mind that I would reflash both my DreamPlug and SheevaPlug this week-end (o

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-08-31 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 20:48 +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: > Le samedi 31 août 2013 à 19:16 +0100, Ian Campbell a écrit : > > It's the only difference I can see between what you've done and what I > > did. Can you try just accepting the default as an experiment? > > This is insane. Using all the

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-08-31 Thread Paul Kocialkowski
Le samedi 31 août 2013 à 19:16 +0100, Ian Campbell a écrit : > It's the only difference I can see between what you've done and what I > did. Can you try just accepting the default as an experiment? This is insane. Using all the defaults, including the partitioning layout worked. My previous attemp

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-08-31 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 18:54 +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: > > > When it hangs do you get a cancel or go back button which would allow > > > you to access the installer syslog? Perhaps if you force a reboot at > > > this point and boot in rescue mode (add "rescue/enable=true" to the > > > bootargs

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-08-31 Thread Paul Kocialkowski
Le samedi 31 août 2013 à 10:59 +0100, Ian Campbell a écrit : > I downloaded: > ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/dreamplug/ > 7bc3332ed880606509511c7b4b439266 uImage > 6afad330c6d75296255782e79226c94a uInitrd

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-08-31 Thread Ian Campbell
ernet hardware > > > of the DreamPlug wasn't recognized, so there was no way for me to > > > proceed with the installation. > > > > Oh dear, which daily image did you use? > > http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/daily/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/dreamplug/ >

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-08-31 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 10:59 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 10:57 +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: > > I also tried to take > > daily debian-installer images but at this point, the ethernet hardware > > of the DreamPlug wasn't recognized, so there was no

Re: Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-08-31 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 10:57 +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: > Hello there! I'm new to this list, and I'm the happy owner of a > Globalscale Dreamplug, that I intend to use as a home server, with > Debian Wheezy. > > First, I followed the instructions[1] I could find

Installing Wheezy on DreamPlug: Unable to make the system bootable

2013-08-31 Thread Paul Kocialkowski
Hello there! I'm new to this list, and I'm the happy owner of a Globalscale Dreamplug, that I intend to use as a home server, with Debian Wheezy. First, I followed the instructions[1] I could find to properly prepare the DreamPlug (that is, updating U-Boot to the Debian/DENX version),

Re: Anyone got Wheezy running on a Dreamplug?

2013-08-29 Thread Dale Amon
this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/Anyone-got-Wheezy-running-on-a-Dreamplug-tp2943613p3040942.html Sent from the debian-arm mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

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