Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-12-01 Thread Per Sjoholm
On 2010-12-01 21:51, davidMbrooke wrote: > > Did you get chance to try my dump of a real 32MB CF card image from > http://www.davidmbrooke.co.uk/32MBCF.img ? I am not seeing any records > of downloads from my web server. > > dMb > No you can remove it. Thanks anyway. It seems that the smallest avai

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-12-01 Thread davidMbrooke
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 21:21 +0100, Per Sjoholm wrote: > On 2010-12-01 20:19, davidMbrooke wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:21 +0100, Per Sjoholm wrote: > >> Hi > >> There is also the issue of missing ioctl's for a disk.img > > Per: Sorry, I don't understand. Could you explain please? > I'm not a

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-12-01 Thread Per Sjoholm
On 2010-12-01 20:19, davidMbrooke wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:21 +0100, Per Sjoholm wrote: >> Hi >> There is also the issue of missing ioctl's for a disk.img > Per: Sorry, I don't understand. Could you explain please? I'm not a Unix kernel programmer, I'm tester and a system integrator and v

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-12-01 Thread Martin Hejl
Hi David, > One practical challenge is that AFAIK most systems only PXE boot from > the "WAN" NIC, Indeed, that's also been the case for all of the PXE enabled boxes that I've played with. > so a bit of cable swapping will be required in order to > boot from a machine on the internal network. Wo

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-12-01 Thread davidMbrooke
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:21 +0100, Per Sjoholm wrote: > Hi > There is also the issue of missing ioctl's for a disk.img Per: Sorry, I don't understand. Could you explain please? > What about bypassing the problem? > We could solve more than one problem at once. > Support for PXE boot/install https

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-12-01 Thread Per Sjoholm
Hi There is also the issue of missing ioctl's for a disk.img What about bypassing the problem? We could solve more than one problem at once. Support for PXE boot/install https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/leaf/ticket/3 I like Martins suggestion below. What if we create a Leaf application that ca

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-11-30 Thread Martin Hejl
Hi dMb, Am 30.11.2010 22:51, schrieb e-mail dmb.leaf-devel: > It *should* work but right now we have a problem with > /sbin/fdisk from hdsupp.lrp which I have just confirmed - See > http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/leaf/ticket/11 :-( Well, if all else fails, you might try booting with Bering uClin

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-11-30 Thread e-mail dmb.leaf-devel
On 30 November 2010 21:07, Martin Hejl wrote: > Hi Per, > >> Booted OK but stuck on /dev/sda1 does not exist as no partition exist. >> >> >> Tried several ways of creating a partition with no  . >> Linux host does not recognize a filesystem. >> >> I also tried making a disk.img with qemu-img and f

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-11-30 Thread Martin Hejl
Hi Per, > Booted OK but stuck on /dev/sda1 does not exist as no partition exist. > > > Tried several ways of creating a partition with no . > Linux host does not recognize a filesystem. > > I also tried making a disk.img with qemu-img and from > qemu -cdrom sysrecover.iso -hda disk.img -boot orde

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Noyes
On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 12:58 +, davidMbrooke wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 08:55 +0100, Per Sjoholm wrote: -snip- > > David I belive the subject needs a wiki-page, where do you want it > in the structure user/installation or development? > > I can write it. (please enable talk page for taspts)

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Noyes
On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 08:55 +0100, Per Sjoholm wrote: -snip- > Tried several ways of creating a partition with no . > Linux host does not recognize a filesystem. > > I also tried making a disk.img with qemu-img and from > qemu -cdrom sysrecover.iso -hda disk.img -boot order=d >fdisk /dev/sda

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-11-30 Thread davidMbrooke
On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 08:55 +0100, Per Sjoholm wrote: > Can someone provide a real Image from a 64 M CF-card. > For analysing and comparing of structure I do not have a 64MB card, but I do have a 32MB... Download from http://www.davidmbrooke.co.uk/32MBCF.img That has one partition, a FAT32 file s

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-11-30 Thread Andrew
30.11.2010 09:55, Per Sjoholm пишет: > > syslinux /dev/sda You must make bootable partition (sda1), not entire HDD/flash. MBR code is default, it should just give control to boot sector of sda1, which should load ldlinux.sys - syslinux loader.

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-11-29 Thread Per Sjoholm
On 2010-11-30 00:04, Andrew wrote: > What HDD devices you saw in /dev? /dev/sda > It's quite easy: make by fdisk 1st partition, change type to FAT32, make > it active and write changes, then - mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1, then - syslinux > -i /dev/sda1 (possible with force key -f), then - mount it a

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-11-29 Thread davidMbrooke
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 23:34 +0100, Per Sjoholm wrote: > On 2010-11-29 22:52, Andrew wrote: > > 29.11.2010 23:32, Per Sjoholm пишет: > >> Hi > >> I been trying to make a diskimage with a fat32 partition for use with > >> virtualbox or qemu. > >> > >> Bering-uClibc_4.0-beta1_i486_syslinux_vga.tar.gz

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-11-29 Thread Andrew
30.11.2010 00:34, Per Sjoholm пишет: > On 2010-11-29 22:52, Andrew wrote: >> 29.11.2010 23:32, Per Sjoholm пишет: >>> Hi >>> I been trying to make a diskimage with a fat32 partition for use with >>> virtualbox or qemu. >>> >>> Bering-uClibc_4.0-beta1_i486_syslinux_vga.tar.gz and installation >>>

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-11-29 Thread Per Sjoholm
On 2010-11-29 22:52, Andrew wrote: > 29.11.2010 23:32, Per Sjoholm пишет: >> Hi >> I been trying to make a diskimage with a fat32 partition for use with >> virtualbox or qemu. >> >> Bering-uClibc_4.0-beta1_i486_syslinux_vga.tar.gz and installation >> instruction for usb/CF >> assumes a partition.

Re: [leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-11-29 Thread Andrew
29.11.2010 23:32, Per Sjoholm пишет: > Hi > I been trying to make a diskimage with a fat32 partition for use with > virtualbox or qemu. > > Bering-uClibc_4.0-beta1_i486_syslinux_vga.tar.gz and installation instruction > for usb/CF > assumes a partition. > > My idee was to configure leaf using a v

[leaf-devel] Howto Create Bering4 diskimage for emulator use

2010-11-29 Thread Per Sjoholm
Hi I been trying to make a diskimage with a fat32 partition for use with virtualbox or qemu. Bering-uClibc_4.0-beta1_i486_syslinux_vga.tar.gz and installation instruction for usb/CF assumes a partition. My idee was to configure leaf using a virtual environment and then write the image to a med