"Super-Jumbo" 2011-03.a (AIOS, Gingerbread, Maverick, ChromiumOS) for Beagleboard ready for you!

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G2

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Mar 25, 2011, 12:20:52 PM3/25/11
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Always Innovating is pleased to announce Super-Jumbo for the
Beagleboard family (also compatible with Touch Book & Smart Book).
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/beagleboard/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yseT4USH8SY

What is Super-Jumbo? Super-Jumbo is a single image which provides four
operating systems fully optimized for the OMAP3 chip:
- AIOS (complete full-featured Angstrom fork)
- Android Gingerbread v2.3
- Ubuntu Maverick 10.10
- ChromiumOS (first time ever released for OMAP3)
Our single kernel is compatible across the whole Beagleboard and Touch
Book families.

Your Beagleboard won't have to chose any more between cheese *OR*
desert. Your Beagleboard is getting cheese *AND* desert from now on!

On a single 2GB file - which expands to 3.8GB so you imperatively need
a SD card of 4GB minimum, Super-Jumbo aggregates hundreds of
applications already set up for you across the four major ARM
operating
systems. You are getting no less than 18 apps to access the web! The
list of what you can do is practically endless:
Firefox, Fennec, Chromium browser, Open Office, mplayer, ompafbplay,
totem, full gnome desktop (all of these on both OE and Ubuntu), java
1.6, DSP bridge with gst-dsp, DSP link, clutter latest, xbmc, full
Gingerbread plus a
set of already installed apps, full ChromiumOS, and many other things.

On top of those bits, Super-Jumbo has the unique feature to run those
multiple operating systems at the same time, without any reboot,
natively, and without any performance loss. Watch the youtube demo
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yseT4USH8SY. Come and see at the
Embedded Linux conference in San Francisco on April 13, 2011 to get
the internals and tricks of our architecture to achieve this feature:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference/gentil

Super-Jumbo is a two-year effort by the Always Innovating team. But
this achievement has been made possible only because of the work
accomplished by the whole open source community. We cannot practically
list all the persons here, but people with significant contributions
to those bits will recognize themselves.

So go and download Super-Jumbo at http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/beagleboard/

Grégoire Gentil
Founder Always Innovating

PS: If this initiative meets some success, the idea is to release a
super-jumbo every quarter or so, with more OS and TI hardware support.

Siji Sunny

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Mar 25, 2011, 1:28:40 PM3/25/11
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Awesome!
Great effort.Specially the customised single kernel for whole 4 OS.
 Will try it soon and get back to you with my feedbacks


Grégoire Gentil
Founder Always Innovating

PS: If this initiative meets some success, the idea is to release a
super-jumbo every quarter or so, with more OS and TI hardware support.

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mark hubrich

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Mar 25, 2011, 4:02:52 PM3/25/11
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Is there another download source? The dropbox is closed.
 

Error (509)

This account's public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!

 

Thanks,
mark

G2

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Mar 25, 2011, 4:15:12 PM3/25/11
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Yes, it seems that there were too many requests. We will upload to a
few other places. I will update the page and update the mailing list
once it's done...

Sorry, I was not expecting so many requests!

Grégoire


On Mar 25, 1:02 pm, mark hubrich <meistr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there another download source? The dropbox is closed.
>
>  Error (509)This account's public links are generating too much traffic and
> have been temporarily disabled!
>
> Thanks,
> mark
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Siji Sunny <sijisu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference/ge...

G2

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Mar 26, 2011, 1:21:01 AM3/26/11
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We have uploaded the files to some other locations. Please try again.
The webpage is updated:
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/beagleboard/

Grégoire

Maxim Podbereznyy

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Mar 26, 2011, 2:44:45 AM3/26/11
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AI would better release Touch Book hardware because mine is pre-ordered 6 months ago and still no good news! New images are good but I'd like to have the HW to run on

2011/3/26 G2 <greg...@gentil.com>

G2

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Mar 26, 2011, 12:12:05 PM3/26/11
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I'm really sorry that you have to wait. To explain the reason, we
recently got a lot of traction by licensing our designs. And indeed
our own small low-margin production was suddenly a little bit less our
focus. We are already giving a lot to the open source community, so we
wanted not to miss an interesting for-benefit business opportunity -
like everybody, we still need to eat everyday! We will make efforts to
resume our open-source-oriented production as soon as resources
permit.

Grégoire

On Mar 25, 11:44 pm, Maxim Podbereznyy <lisar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> AI would better release Touch Book hardware because mine is pre-ordered 6
> months ago and still no good news! New images are good but I'd like to have
> the HW to run on
>
> 2011/3/26 G2 <grego...@gentil.com>

Maxim Podbereznyy

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Mar 28, 2011, 3:15:53 AM3/28/11
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Dear Grégoire,

I know things like "have to eat every day" because I'm self-employed. If you need money to support your development phase then you need to sell devices even at small batches, though they can be a little buggy. In Russia we have a proverb "The Best is an enemy for the Good", which means that you can spend too much time creating perfect things while good results are also good and acceptable. If you sell your devices with further software updates then a lot of people will be happy! Don't be afraid to sell semi-finished products.

the longer you delay products supply the more interest people get for Nvidia Tegra based Tablets..

2011/3/26 G2 <greg...@gentil.com>

mark hubrich

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Mar 28, 2011, 6:20:37 AM3/28/11
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I really like what you have done here. It is the most responsive Android I've had on my bb. There are some things that need attention though.

For starters,  I put a second image on an 8 gb card. It didn't seem to have more free space. Is there a different process for larger mmc?

Can chrome be setup to use lan instead of wifi?

Thanks! !

Mark

On Mar 28, 2011 2:15 AM, "Maxim Podbereznyy" <lisa...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Grégoire,

I know things like "have to eat every day" because I'm self-employed. If you need money to support your development phase then you need to sell devices even at small batches, though they can be a little buggy. In Russia we have a proverb "The Best is an enemy for the Good", which means that you can spend too much time creating perfect things while good results are also good and acceptable. If you sell your devices with further software updates then a lot of people will be happy! Don't be afraid to sell semi-finished products.

the longer you delay products supply the more interest people get for Nvidia Tegra based Tablets..

2011/3/26 G2 <greg...@gentil.com>

> > I'm really sorry that you have to wait. To explain the reason, we > recently got a lot of tracti...


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Jason Kridner

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Mar 28, 2011, 8:31:47 AM3/28/11
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:20 AM, mark hubrich <meis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I really like what you have done here. It is the most responsive Android
> I've had on my bb. There are some things that need attention though.
>
> For starters,  I put a second image on an 8 gb card. It didn't seem to have
> more free space. Is there a different process for larger mmc?

I did a quick write-up on resizing images:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/beagleboard/O-d7xU_rCKY/iYnE45LgkrcJ

Perhaps I should convert it to a blog post and remove steps that need
input to u-boot directly?

>
> Can chrome be setup to use lan instead of wifi?

I'm still waiting for my download. Gregoire, is it OK if I mirror the
image for you?

>
> Thanks! !
>
> Mark
>
> On Mar 28, 2011 2:15 AM, "Maxim Podbereznyy" <lisa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Grégoire,
>
> I know things like "have to eat every day" because I'm self-employed. If you
> need money to support your development phase then you need to sell devices
> even at small batches, though they can be a little buggy. In Russia we have
> a proverb "The Best is an enemy for the Good", which means that you can
> spend too much time creating perfect things while good results are also good
> and acceptable. If you sell your devices with further software updates then
> a lot of people will be happy! Don't be afraid to sell semi-finished
> products.
>
> the longer you delay products supply the more interest people get for Nvidia
> Tegra based Tablets..
>
> 2011/3/26 G2 <greg...@gentil.com>
>
>> > I'm really sorry that you have to wait. To explain the reason, we >
>> > recently got a lot of tracti...
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On Mar 25, 2011 4:02 PM, "mark hubrich" <meis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there another download source? The dropbox is closed.
>  
> Error (509)
> This account's public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!

If ever there was a legit application for torrents, this would be it.

-Glen

Jason Kridner

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Mar 28, 2011, 12:35:26 PM3/28/11
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I don't mind paying for the bandwidth to send this file around to
everyone, if I can get a copy. Of course, I'd like to know I wasn't
shipping around a GPL violation. Currently, I have about 180MB of the
2GB downloaded and Firefox is telling me it will still take another 20
hours. I would have loved to use 'wget -c', but free.fr seems to like
to use cookies.

Anyway, once I can get it, my plan is to put it on S3 and to share a
torrent tracker as well, but I'd like to know from Gregoire that this
is OK.

Vuvu Seeler

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Mar 28, 2011, 4:28:58 PM3/28/11
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> I don't mind paying for the bandwidth to send this file around to
> everyone, if I can get a copy.  Of course, I'd like to know I wasn't
> shipping around a GPL violation.  Currently, I have about 180MB of the
> 2GB downloaded and Firefox is telling me it will still take another 20
> hours.  I would have loved to use 'wget -c', but free.fr seems to like
> to use cookies.

My Download at free.fr abort after 1,7 Gb and I'm wasn't able to
restart.
My first attempt (Option 3, splitted archive) at Saturday failed, too.
The file sizes looks right (MD5-checksum?), but

sudo -s
cat ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.tbz2.part* | tar -xjpvf - > /dev/sdb

fails and the content of the second partition is damaged. (i.e.
no .images folder)
Has anybody successfully try Option 1 or 3?

Regard,
Olaf Schulz

Anthony Kavassis

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Mar 29, 2011, 11:09:52 AM3/29/11
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May I make a suggestion. Would it not be better to have a torrent for
the large single file? That way everybody who has the file can
contribute to the distribution.

Regards,
Anthony Kavassis

Koen Kooi

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Mar 29, 2011, 11:14:59 AM3/29/11
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Op 29 mrt 2011, om 17:09 heeft Anthony Kavassis het volgende geschreven:

> May I make a suggestion. Would it not be better to have a torrent for
> the large single file? That way everybody who has the file can
> contribute to the distribution.

I wonder if that counts as "distributing" under the GPL. If so, I hope you have those "secret" kernel patches for the touchbook that aren't public.

G2

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Mar 29, 2011, 11:33:15 AM3/29/11
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Koen,

All the work of Always Innovating has always finished publicly
available on our git. Regarding the multiple-os, there are a few
things already available at http://git.alwaysinnovating.com/ and the
remaining will be explained and released during my keynote at the
Embedded Linux Conference http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference/gentil

Grégoire

Koen Kooi

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Mar 29, 2011, 11:44:37 AM3/29/11
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Op 29 mrt 2011, om 17:33 heeft G2 het volgende geschreven:

> Koen,
>
> All the work of Always Innovating has always finished publicly
> available on our git.

That's not true, till very recently you had a lot of these:

file://../../../../private/touchscreen-chacha.patch;patch=1 \

The 2.6.32 patchset seems to be public now, so that is good, but it wasn't in the past. I didn't check the other recipes that were using those 'private' patches.

adwelly

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Mar 29, 2011, 11:51:59 AM3/29/11
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I've managed to get the three pieces downloaded and glued together. It
boots Android at the moment because although it recognises my USB
mouse, it doesn't want to talk to my USB keyboard (which I stole from
a Mac).

Hmm. Angry Birds on an xM.

The commands I used on my ubuntu host were:

sudo -s
cat ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.tbz2.part* | tar -xjpvf - > /dev/sdb

....this did not succeed but left a ai.superjumbo-2011-03.a lying
around in the directory (is there really a space between - and > ?) so
I then went:

dd if=superjumbo-2011-03.a of=/dev/sdb bs=1M

this planted a three partition filesystem directly onto the micro-sd
card. Which in the absence of a keyboard will bot android gingerbread.
I'll have another kbd available tomorrow and will look at the others
then.

Best Regards

Andy Dwelly (andy....@intellimediasystems.com)

Jason Kridner

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Mar 30, 2011, 8:58:49 AM3/30/11
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I have my mirror now, but I'm reluctant to share it until I can get some confirmation that all the patches are now public.  Should I wait until ELC before I share the mirror?

G2

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Mar 30, 2011, 10:40:39 AM3/30/11
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@Koen, I don't think that you are picking up the right fight here!
There are many "much bigger" companies pigging back on open source and
which doesn't give back anything.

Anyway, to answer specifically your point, this touchscreen patch has
been committed for weeks now:
http://git.alwaysinnovating.com/cgit.cgi/ai.openembedded.dev/log/recipes/linux/linux-omap-psp-2.6.32/omap3-touchbook/touchscreen-chacha.patch

and there is nothing private here:
http://git.alwaysinnovating.com/cgit.cgi/ai.openembedded.dev/tree/recipes/linux/linux-omap-psp_2.6.32.bb

@Jason, yes, there is nothing private in the kernel. I'm 100% sure!

@adwelly, if you have booted Android, I think that you have a proper
SD image. Otherwise, it would not boot.

@adwelly, this version of Angrybird is free on Android, though it's
not on iOS.

@adwelly, for the USB keyboard, we don't have CONFIG_HID_APPLE set in
the kernel. Try to get a standard keyboard.

Grégoire


On Mar 30, 5:58 am, Jason Kridner <jkrid...@beagleboard.org> wrote:

Jason Kridner

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:40 AM, G2 <greg...@gentil.com> wrote:
@Koen, I don't think that you are picking up the right fight here!
There are many "much bigger" companies pigging back on open source and
which doesn't give back anything.

Anyway, to answer specifically your point, this touchscreen patch has
been committed for weeks now:
http://git.alwaysinnovating.com/cgit.cgi/ai.openembedded.dev/log/recipes/linux/linux-omap-psp-2.6.32/omap3-touchbook/touchscreen-chacha.patch

and there is nothing private here:
http://git.alwaysinnovating.com/cgit.cgi/ai.openembedded.dev/tree/recipes/linux/linux-omap-psp_2.6.32.bb

@Jason, yes, there is nothing private in the kernel. I'm 100% sure!

Great.  I have a mirror setup at http://beagle.s3.amazonaws.com/demos/ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.gz.torrent.  Remove the .torrent to download directly, but I hope others can share bandwidth as well.

Gregoire, realize that the kernel is likely not the only GPL component in the system.  You likely need to setup a source mirror for the packages downloaded by OE in your Angstrom fork.  I suspect some of the other packages utilized may also be GPL licensed.  Please let me know how I can be of assistance as I find this to be of great benefit to the community.  It would be nice to see this operating system switch feature supported in the Angstrom and Rowboat repositories at least, if not also the Ubuntu releases (perhaps no patches are needed there?).
 

@adwelly, if you have booted Android, I think that you have a proper
SD image. Otherwise, it would not boot.

@adwelly, this version of Angrybird is free on Android, though it's
not on iOS.

@adwelly, for the USB keyboard, we don't have CONFIG_HID_APPLE set in
the kernel. Try to get a standard keyboard.

Grégoire


On Mar 30, 5:58 am, Jason Kridner <jkrid...@beagleboard.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Koen Kooi <k...@beagleboard.org> wrote:
>
> > Op 29 mrt 2011, om 17:33 heeft G2 het volgende geschreven:
>
> > > Koen,
>
> > > All the work of Always Innovating has always finished publicly
> > > available on our git.
>
> > That's not true, till very recently you had a lot of these:
>
> > file://../../../../private/touchscreen-chacha.patch;patch=1 \
>
> > The 2.6.32 patchset seems to be public now, so that is good, but it wasn't
> > in the past. I didn't check the other recipes that were using those
> > 'private' patches.
>
> I have my mirror now, but I'm reluctant to share it until I can get some
> confirmation that all the patches are now public.  Should I wait until ELC
> before I share the mirror?

Gary Thomas

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Mar 31, 2011, 10:53:25 AM3/31/11
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On 03/30/2011 10:51 AM, Jason Kridner wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:40 AM, G2 <greg...@gentil.com <mailto:greg...@gentil.com>> wrote:
>
> @Koen, I don't think that you are picking up the right fight here!
> There are many "much bigger" companies pigging back on open source and
> which doesn't give back anything.
>
> Anyway, to answer specifically your point, this touchscreen patch has
> been committed for weeks now:
> http://git.alwaysinnovating.com/cgit.cgi/ai.openembedded.dev/log/recipes/linux/linux-omap-psp-2.6.32/omap3-touchbook/touchscreen-chacha.patch
>
> and there is nothing private here:
> http://git.alwaysinnovating.com/cgit.cgi/ai.openembedded.dev/tree/recipes/linux/linux-omap-psp_2.6.32.bb
>
> @Jason, yes, there is nothing private in the kernel. I'm 100% sure!
>
>
> Great. I have a mirror setup at http://beagle.s3.amazonaws.com/demos/ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.gz.torrent. Remove the .torrent to download directly, but I hope others can share
> bandwidth as well.

I downloaded this, but it fails to unpack:
zcat /tmp/demos_ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.gz >/tmp/demos_ai-superjumbo-2011-03.all
gzip: /tmp/demos_ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated

Do you have an MD5 for the .gz file?

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Vladimir Pantelic

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Mar 31, 2011, 11:10:05 AM3/31/11
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Gary Thomas wrote:
>
> I downloaded this, but it fails to unpack:
> zcat /tmp/demos_ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.gz>/tmp/demos_ai-superjumbo-2011-03.all
> gzip: /tmp/demos_ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated
>
> Do you have an MD5 for the .gz file?
>

bc68c947f121ff8ce999e96ed0d96ae2 ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.gz

Gary Thomas

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Mar 31, 2011, 11:31:59 AM3/31/11
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I got something completely different downloading via the torrent :-(

Maybe we should make sure it's all there:

$ ls -l /tmp/demos_ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gthomas gthomas 2191575252 Mar 30 19:23 /tmp/demos_ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.gz

Jason, any feedback?

Anthony Kavassis

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@Jason Many thx for the torrent. I downloaded the torrent yesterday
and be seeding the file

@Grégoire I used the instructions on the Wiki page and it created the
SD card just fine. I'm using a 4 Gb Kingston microSD card but on my
revB xm board I'm getting a bad newroot /root and Kernel panic message
so I am assuming something in the second partition didn't go as
planned. I get the boot screen just fine and pressing the user button
works but it hangs there. Any suggestions on what might be the culprit?

Vladimir Pantelic

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Apr 1, 2011, 2:15:31 AM4/1/11
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Anthony Kavassis wrote:
> @Jason Many thx for the torrent. I downloaded the torrent yesterday
> and be seeding the file
>
> @Gr�goire I used the instructions on the Wiki page and it created the

> SD card just fine. I'm using a 4 Gb Kingston microSD card but on my
> revB xm board I'm getting a bad newroot /root and Kernel panic message
> so I am assuming something in the second partition didn't go as
> planned. I get the boot screen just fine and pressing the user button
> works but it hangs there. Any suggestions on what might be the culprit?

the unzipped file size of the image is 7.7G ....


Anthony Kavassis

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Apr 1, 2011, 2:57:16 AM4/1/11
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Vladimir I just followed what was mentioned in the Wiki here where it
mentions at least 4Gb card:
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/wiki/index.php/Beagleboard

Vladimir Pantelic

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Apr 1, 2011, 3:37:41 AM4/1/11
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I did not write the wiki :)

ls -lh ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a
... 7.7G ... ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a

Eric Bénard

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Apr 1, 2011, 4:19:07 AM4/1/11
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Hi,

On 01/04/2011 07:25, Anthony Kavassis wrote:
> @Gr�goire I used the instructions on the Wiki page and it created the


> SD card just fine. I'm using a 4 Gb Kingston microSD card but on my
> revB xm board I'm getting a bad newroot /root and Kernel panic message
> so I am assuming something in the second partition didn't go as
> planned. I get the boot screen just fine and pressing the user button
> works but it hangs there. Any suggestions on what might be the culprit?
>

you can manually copy the content of the second partition this way :
mount -o loop,offset=764951040 ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a /mnt/
fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
-> create the 2nd partition with the right size for your SDCard
mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p2
mount -t ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt2
cd /mnt
rsync -avz . /mnt2/
umount /mnt2

Eric

Koen Kooi

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Apr 1, 2011, 4:23:15 AM4/1/11
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Op 1 apr 2011, om 10:19 heeft Eric Bénard het volgende geschreven:

> Hi,
>
> On 01/04/2011 07:25, Anthony Kavassis wrote:

>> @Grégoire I used the instructions on the Wiki page and it created the


run kpartx on the loop file to autodiscover the offset and look in /dev/mapper/.

regards,

Koen

Anthony Kavassis

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Apr 1, 2011, 8:02:16 AM4/1/11
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I would like to thank everyone for your responses. I got the image
working by downloading the split part files (single file from torrent
comes up with errors when expanding). Using the cat command and then
dd, it worked just fine with the 8Gb microSD card. Double pressing the
user button though doesn't come with an OS switcher screen, but rather
a blank screen. Android performance seems a bit sluggish on the menu
system,

With regards to Android marketplace, I keep getting force closure
errors. Is this normal?

David Batzle

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Apr 1, 2011, 8:12:02 AM4/1/11
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That's odd. I get 3.8G.

David.

Vladimir Pantelic

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Apr 1, 2011, 8:41:36 AM4/1/11
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this image ships with android marketplace installed? kudos to bravery

adwelly

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@Gregoire
I was fascinated to see Angry Birds, but in fact my primary interest
is video.
I brought in a very vanilla USB keyboard on day 2, booted into AI, and
was delighted to see standard
def video with a good frame rate running out of the box, so to speak.
I've found AI to be
lightweight, responsive, and pretty much ideal for the early part of
the project I'm currently working on.

I have had one problem which is that I would like to change screen
resolution, but creating a
new boot.scr requires me to get mkimage-x86 on my Ubuntu host. Can
anyone give me a clue on how
best to get hold of this ? The command apt-get install uboot-mkimage
installs a mkimage executable
that appears to accept the appropriate parameters but the resulting
boot.scr simply hangs.

Andy Dwelly

Gary Thomas

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What were the details (length, MD5SUM) of the .gz file? The one I downloaded
from Josh's torrent seems broken :-(

David Batzle

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--- On Fri, 4/1/11, Gary Thomas <ga...@mlbassoc.com> wrote:

I downloaded the three parts from the links on the Always Innovating page.
The size is 2.0GB or 2199882463 bytes. MD5 is
3ab5edc44bb73f3417f67fa070857157
I mounted it on my desktop and everything seems to be there but I have not
tried it on my beagle yet.

David.

G2

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Hello,

To close on the thread regarding the problem of download and SD card
installation, we have updated the page:
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/beagleboard/

There is only one file to download, you need to extract the tbz2 and
burn the file to a SD card with dd. The extract is 3.83GB so it can
fit on a 4GB SD card.

Compressed file: ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.tbz2 (2.05GB)
md5sum=3ab5edc44bb73f3417f67fa070857157
After extraction: ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a (3.83GB)
md5sum=f6c1fa74f274fbe8f117e9a884a086e6

File can be downloaded here:
http://dl.free.fr/k9dI2plRG
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IZMZ89F5
http://beagle.s3.amazonaws.com/demos/ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.tbz2

If you get a kernel panic when booting, it means that the extraction
has not been properly done to the SD card. I hope that it's clear now.

Grégoire Gentil
Founder Always Innovating
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On Apr 1, 2:36 pm, David Batzle <n2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Fri, 4/1/11, Gary Thomas <g...@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > From: Gary Thomas <g...@mlbassoc.com>
> > Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Re: "Super-Jumbo" 2011-03.a (AIOS, Gingerbread, Maverick, ChromiumOS) for Beagleboard ready for you!
> > To: beagl...@googlegroups.com
> > Cc: "David Batzle" <n2...@yahoo.com>
> > Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 10:01 AM
> > On 04/01/2011 06:12 AM, David Batzle
> > wrote:
>
> > > --- On Fri, 4/1/11, Vladimir Pantelic<vlado...@gmail.com

Rico Naf

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How does the boot.scr look if you prepare it on a touchbook.
I could not get the suggested script to work.
Also the memory figures seem odd, "0 80200000" seems not right.

mkimage did work but not the result. The BB does not boot.
There are so many options and versions on the beagleboard.
It's hard to choose the right thing.
I'm runnign a XM A2.


> Awesome!
> Great effort.Specially the customised single kernel for whole 4 OS.
> Will try it soon and get back to you with my feedbacks


>> Grégoire Gentil
>> Founder Always Innovating
>>

>> PS: If this initiative meets some success, the idea is to release a
>> super-jumbo every quarter or so, with more OS and TI hardware support.


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Seppo Nikkilä

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Hi G2,

And thanks for this great achievement!

Is this how the creation of 4 GB SD card should run:

tar -xjpOf /home/sin/Downloads/ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.tbz2 | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0
dd: writing to `/dev/mmcblk0': No space left on device
7774209+0 records in
7774208+0 records out
3980394496 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 1887.48 s, 2.1 MB/s


Now, how do I make sure that everything went right and the SD card is OK?
How do I "zero" a 4 GB SD card that has something else on it already?

Best regards,
siñ

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2011/4/9 Seppo Nikkilä <seppo....@innovativeideas.fi>:

> Hi G2,
>
> And thanks for this great achievement!
>
> Is this how the creation of 4 GB SD card should run:
>
> tar -xjpOf /home/sin/Downloads/ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.tbz2 | dd
> of=/dev/mmcblk0
> dd: writing to `/dev/mmcblk0': No space left on device
> 7774209+0 records in
> 7774208+0 records out
> 3980394496 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 1887.48 s, 2.1 MB/s

I don't know all of those tar arguments and though I could look them
up, I suggest most people just extract the ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a
file. You can then use dd or the Ubuntu Win32DiskImager to write the
4GB image.

>
> Now, how do I make sure that everything went right and the SD card is OK?

You'll see valid partitions and it'll boot on your BeagleBoard-xM.

> How do I "zero" a 4 GB SD card that has something else on it already?

Given that you overwrite the SD card contents, "zero"ing the SD card
is absolutely pointless.

Mark A. Yoder

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Jason:
I've downloaded the image from the Amazon mirror, but I'm
unsuccessful in uncompressing it. Here's the error message:

$ gunzip ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.gz

gzip: ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.gz: invalid compressed data--format
violated

The md5sum matched one of the ones posted here.

Any suggestions?

On Mar 30, 12:51 pm, Jason Kridner <jkrid...@beagleboard.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:40 AM, G2 <grego...@gentil.com> wrote:
> > @Koen, I don't think that you are picking up the right fight here!
> > There are many "much bigger" companies pigging back on open source and
> > which doesn't give back anything.
>
> > Anyway, to answer specifically your point, this touchscreen patch has
> > been committed for weeks now:
>
> >http://git.alwaysinnovating.com/cgit.cgi/ai.openembedded.dev/log/reci...
>
> > and there is nothing private here:
>
> >http://git.alwaysinnovating.com/cgit.cgi/ai.openembedded.dev/tree/rec...
>
> > @Jason, yes, there is nothing private in the kernel. I'm 100% sure!
>
> Great.  I have a mirror setup athttp://beagle.s3.amazonaws.com/demos/ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.gz.torrent.

Mark A. Yoder

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Success! This link [1] appears to work.

--Mark

[1] http://beagle.s3.amazonaws.com/demos/ai-superjumbo-2011-03.a.tbz2

Anthony Kavassis

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Hello to all,

just a couple of thoughts on the image after using it for a few days.
Both Ubuntu and AI Linux work superbly but I can't get Chrome OS to
work and Android seems to be twitchy to say the least on my XM rev B
board. Chrome OS boots up but can't get through the installation
process. It doesn't detect the Ethernet adapter on my Xm board or it
could potentially require a WiFi usb adapter in order to get Internet
access. As far as Android is concerned, if I try to install an apk it
says there is no room in the card. Android marketplace doesn't work
and a good number of apps crash with force close message. Was
wondering if anyone else has had similar experience with the image.

--Anthony

G2

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Hello,

A couple of answers to your post:

- ChromiumOS has only been tested with wifi indeed. In the next
release, we will add support for the Ethernet port. Note that you can
start ChromiumOS from AIOS (native performance) and then you can still
use the Ethernet port which can be configured through AIOS.

- As for Android, the card image that we have done is pretty small so
you can't install many other applications. Note that the Android
Market behavior varies depending of the device and your geographic
location. I've experienced very different behavior with the Market.
Note that we will install the Amazon market in the next release. All
the apps part of the image have been tested and they were working fine
for us on a Beagleboard-xM. Please describe your problems precisely
and be sure to have a clean card.

Thanks for your interest!

Grégoire Gentil
Founder Always Innovating

Alexandre Tisserant

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> - ChromiumOS has only been tested with wifi indeed. In the next
> release, we will add support for the Ethernet port. Note that you can
> start ChromiumOS from AIOS (native performance) and then you can still
> use the Ethernet port which can be configured through AIOS.

To get ethernet access on ChromiumOS, you actually just have to edit line 21 in /etc/init/flimflam.conf in ChromiumOS, by replacing:

exec /usr/sbin/flimflamd -i ra0 -W wext -k /var/whitelist/owner/key

with

exec /usr/sbin/flimflamd -i usb0 -k /var/whitelist/owner/key

To do so, you have a console access on tty2 (login chronos, no password)

Alexandre

>
> - As for Android, the card image that we have done is pretty small so
> you can't install many other applications. Note that the Android
> Market behavior varies depending of the device and your geographic
> location. I've experienced very different behavior with the Market.
> Note that we will install the Amazon market in the next release. All
> the apps part of the image have been tested and they were working fine
> for us on a Beagleboard-xM. Please describe your problems precisely
> and be sure to have a clean card.
>
> Thanks for your interest!
>
> Grégoire Gentil
> Founder Always Innovating
>
> On Apr 13, 1:09 am, Anthony Kavassis <akavas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello to all,
>>
>> just a couple of thoughts on the image after using it for a few days.
>> Both Ubuntu and AI Linux work superbly but I can't get Chrome OS to
>> work and Android seems to be twitchy to say the least on my XM rev B
>> board. Chrome OS boots up but can't get through the installation
>> process. It doesn't detect the Ethernet adapter on my Xm board or it
>> could potentially require a WiFi usb adapter in order to get Internet
>> access. As far as Android is concerned, if I try to install an apk it
>> says there is no room in the card. Android marketplace doesn't work
>> and a good number of apps crash with force close message. Was
>> wondering if anyone else has had similar experience with the image.
>>
>> --Anthony
>

SuperMario

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Hello to everyone.
 
I have the beagle board rev C4 bought from Special Computing. Yesterday I've got the Super Jumbo image and I tried to boot it with my Beagle Board. I've encountered 2 big problems :
 
a) I have no touch screen panel,so that I can't choose the operating system to boot. I've attached a mouse and a keyboard,but they didn't work.
b) If I don't make a choice,Android is chosen as default operating system. I've kept powered the beagle board for a long time,but Android seems to be gone in loop. The splash screen is always there,it's unable to start.
 
I hope that someone can help me.

mark hubrich

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If you press the user button when the os screen pops up you can use keyboard to make os choice.

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SuperMario

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Hello,
 
I've tried to boot Android by pressing the USER button as soon as the os selection screen pops up. Android is freezed on the logo screen. After 3 hours of waiting,I've rebooted the beagle board. Something is broken ? I tried to boot Chromium and I've got the same result. Ubuntu maverick works,instead.

Emerson Suguimoto

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Hello,

I´ve tested it with my BeagleBoard XM, there were no issues.

The only think i miss is a bigger image for the storage. Every time I tried to debug a program within Android, it keeps saying there is no left space. So i must do it through ADB. Anyway, this is image is awesome. My buddies from the college are using it. :D

2011/6/4 SuperMario <mariet...@gmail.com>
Hello,
 
I've tried to boot Android by pressing the USER button as soon as the os selection screen pops up. Android is freezed on the logo screen. After 3 hours of waiting,I've rebooted the beagle board. Something is broken ? I tried to boot Chromium and I've got the same result. Ubuntu maverick works,instead.

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SuperMario, I forgot to mention, but rev C4´s usb port does not have enough energy to power a keyboard. You must get a powered usb hub, then plug them.

I highly recommend you the rev XM.

2011/6/4 Emerson Suguimoto <emerson....@gmail.com>

Jason Kridner

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On Saturday, June 4, 2011 9:30:30 AM UTC-4, Suguimoto wrote:
SuperMario, I forgot to mention, but rev C4´s usb port does not have enough energy to power a keyboard. You must get a powered usb hub, then plug them.


That's not right.  The reason a keyboard won't worked plugged directly into a pre-xM board is that the EHCI USB port *only* supports *high-speed* peripherals, not full-speed or low-speed peripherals like a keyboard.  Putting a high-speed-capable hub in the middle will translate down to full-speed and low-speed, which is how the xM supports those types of devices directly.
 

Emerson Suguimoto

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Jason, I´ve tested it myself. A friend of mine was not able to get his keyboard to work with Ubuntu, i got my powered usb hub plugged and it worked :) (BeagleBoard C4 not XM)


2011/6/4 Jason Kridner <jkri...@beagleboard.org>
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Jason Kridner

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On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Emerson Suguimoto <emerson....@gmail.com> wrote:
Jason, I´ve tested it myself. A friend of mine was not able to get his keyboard to work with Ubuntu, i got my powered usb hub plugged and it worked :) (BeagleBoard C4 not XM)

The *REASON* that worked has nothing to do with energy, unless you have a high-speed keyboard with an insane amount of current draw.  I'm just trying to avoid misinformation on the list for something that is a FAQ.
 

Joep Schroen

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Jason is right, same applies to b or c boards.

Op 4 jun. 2011 16:35 schreef "Emerson Suguimoto" <emerson....@gmail.com> het volgende:

SuperMario

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My keyboard and mouse work and I'm using a powered hub. My problem is that Android is not able to start,as chromium. Angstrom and Maverick work.

Gregoire Gentil

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The binaries version 2011-03.a don't work on XM rev C - we didn't have
the chance to test on that hardware revision and there are a few
important hardware changes indeed. There are some patches floating
around that we have applied. When we will release an update of Super
Jumbo, we will make sure that it's compatible with revision C,

Grégoire Gentil
Founder Always Innovating

Follow us at http://twitter.com/ai_info


On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 12:21 -0700, GregorK wrote:
> I recently purchased a Beagleboard XM rev C and I have been trying to
> get the AI Superjumbo to boot on it with no success (nothing
> happens). I know that there are significant differences between the
> Beagleboard XM rev A/B and rev C. I have successfully booted the
> verification Angstom Image that came with the board and I have created
> a working Ubuntu 11.04 image as well. I was wondering if anyone had
> succeeded in getting the AI Superjumbo to work on BB XM rev. C.
>
> On Mar 25, 12:20 pm, G2 <grego...@gentil.com> wrote:
> > Always Innovating is pleased to announce Super-Jumbo for theBeagleboardfamily (also compatible with Touch Book & Smart Book).http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/beagleboard/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yseT4USH8SY
> >
> > What is Super-Jumbo? Super-Jumbo is a single image which provides four
> > operating systems fully optimized for the OMAP3 chip:
> > - AIOS (complete full-featured Angstrom fork)
> > - Android Gingerbread v2.3
> > - Ubuntu Maverick 10.10
> > - ChromiumOS (first time ever released for OMAP3)
> > Our single kernel is compatible across the wholeBeagleboardand Touch
> > Book families.
> >
> > YourBeagleboardwon't have to chose any more between cheese *OR*
> > desert. YourBeagleboardis getting cheese *AND* desert from now on!
> >
> > On a single 2GB file - which expands to 3.8GB so you imperatively need
> > a SD card of 4GB minimum, Super-Jumbo aggregates hundreds of
> > applications already set up for you across the four major ARM
> > operating
> > systems. You are getting no less than 18 apps to access the web! The
> > list of what you can do is practically endless:
> > Firefox, Fennec, Chromium browser, Open Office, mplayer, ompafbplay,
> > totem, full gnome desktop (all of these on both OE and Ubuntu), java
> > 1.6, DSP bridge with gst-dsp, DSP link, clutter latest, xbmc, full
> > Gingerbread plus a
> > set of already installed apps, full ChromiumOS, and many other things.
> >
> > On top of those bits, Super-Jumbo has the unique feature to run those
> > multiple operating systems at the same time, without any reboot,
> > natively, and without any performance loss. Watch the youtube demo
> > video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yseT4USH8SY. Come and see at the
> > Embedded Linux conference in San Francisco on April 13, 2011 to get
> > the internals and tricks of our architecture to achieve this feature:http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference/ge...
> >
> > Super-Jumbo is a two-year effort by the Always Innovating team. But
> > this achievement has been made possible only because of the work
> > accomplished by the whole open source community. We cannot practically
> > list all the persons here, but people with significant contributions
> > to those bits will recognize themselves.
> >
> > So go and download Super-Jumbo athttp://www.alwaysinnovating.com/beagleboard/


> >
> > Grégoire Gentil
> > Founder Always Innovating
> >

Mario

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I don't know if my beagle board is the XM rev C. Can you check please
? I got it here :

https://specialcomp.com/beagleboard/order.htm

it says Rev C4,not XM rev C4.

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On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Mario <mariet...@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't know if my beagle board is the XM rev C. Can you check please
? I got it here :

https://specialcomp.com/beagleboard/order.htm

it says Rev C4,not XM rev C4.

Does it have an Ethernet port?  If yes, it is an xM.
 

Mario

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No.

2011/6/6 Jason Kridner <jkri...@beagleboard.org>:

AlperEğitmen

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in xM version C, they probably invert usb bus power.

On 6 Haziran, 03:26, Mario <marietto2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No.
>
> 2011/6/6 Jason Kridner <jkrid...@beagleboard.org>:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Mario <marietto2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> I don't know if my beagle board is the XM rev C. Can you check please
> >> ? I got it here :
>
> >>https://specialcomp.com/beagleboard/order.htm
>
> >> it says Rev C4,not XM rev C4.
>
> > Does it have an Ethernet port?  If yes, it is an xM.
>
> >> 2011/6/4 Gregoire Gentil <grego...@alwaysinnovating.com>:
> >> > The binaries version 2011-03.a don't work on XM rev C - we didn't have
> >> > the chance to test on that hardware revision and there are a few
> >> > important hardware changes indeed. There are some patches floating
> >> > around that we have applied. When we will release an update of Super
> >> > Jumbo, we will make sure that it's compatible with revision C,
>
> >> > Grégoire Gentil
> >> > Founder Always Innovating
> >> > Follow us athttp://twitter.com/ai_info
>
> >> > On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 12:21 -0700, GregorK wrote:
> >> >> I recently purchased a Beagleboard XM rev C and I have been trying to
> >> >> get the AI Superjumbo to boot on it with no success (nothing
> >> >> happens).  I know that there are significant differences between the
> >> >> Beagleboard XM rev A/B and rev C.  I have successfully booted the
> >> >> verification Angstom Image that came with the board and I have created
> >> >> a working Ubuntu 11.04 image as well.  I was wondering if anyone had
> >> >> succeeded in getting the AI Superjumbo to work on BB XM rev. C.
>
> >> >> On Mar 25, 12:20 pm, G2 <grego...@gentil.com> wrote:
> >> >> > Always Innovating is pleased to announce Super-Jumbo for
> >> >> > theBeagleboardfamily (also compatible with Touch Book & Smart
> >> >> > Book).http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/beagleboard/http://www.youtube.com/wa...

Mario

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and then what about my beagle ? It isn't XM rev C,but Android is not
able to boot...

2011/6/6 AlperEğitmen <cucuma...@gmail.com>:

AlperEğitmen

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did you try 0xdroid?. Apperantly and unfourtunately most of problems
are related with the xM Version C...

On 6 Haziran, 15:29, Mario <marietto2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> and then what about my beagle ? It isn't XM rev C,but Android is not
> able to boot...
>
> 2011/6/6 AlperEğitmen <cucuman.al...@gmail.com>:

Mario

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I haven't tried it. Anyway,my beagle board is not Xm rev C...

2011/6/6 AlperEğitmen <cucuma...@gmail.com>:

Mario

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I gave a look at 0xdroid...it does not support Gingerbread or later.
It talks about Linaro. I've tried it,but it didn't work on my beagle.
Check here :

https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+bug/793364

2011/6/6 Mario <mariet...@gmail.com>:

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Steven

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hi Alexander,
Can you give me more details on how to access the console on tty2. I
tried it using minicom but it seemed like it's not connected.

On Apr 18, 5:49 pm, Alexandre Tisserant
> >> board.ChromeOSboots up but can't get through the installation

SuperMario

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Hello to everyone,
 
since I've heard that the Beagle Board pre XM version had some hard to fix problems,I've bought the XM version rev B with this expansion board :
 
 
I've tried to run the Super Jumbo image with these hardware components,but :
 
a) the touch screen does not work
b) Android is able to boot,but as soon as it is loaded,everything is freezed
c) Chromium OS is stuck on the splash screen
d) Ubuntu Maverick works but the touch screen doesn't.
 
When I've bought the expansion board,I've got a CD-ROM with the drivers for :
 
1) Android Rowboat 2.2
2) Angstrom
3) WinCE 6.0
 
 
On the read me file I read this :
 

beagle_chipsee_exp_source.tar is source code¡£

beagleboard-xm-touch.tar is image code

In linux system,extract beagleboard-xm-touch.tar

Run mkmmc-android.sh (assume your uSD card have been mounted by the system),wait for a while.

when it finished,the uSD card has been done.

caution:the uSD card ship with beagleboard -xM is a little slow,it can't run Android 2.2 well,suppose you change to Sandisk class 4

 

These instructions are good if I boot the Angstrom distro already installed on the SD card gave to me by the manufactuer,but what about if I run it on the Ubuntu Maverick that's inside the Super-Jumbo image ? Into which kind of hardware configuration is the Super Jumbo image able to work ?

Gerald Coley

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Jun 16, 2011, 7:53:52 AM6/16/11
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We are working to change to SanDisk, but obviously  you have not tried to buy them in lots of 1000 lately. They are almost impossible to get in bulk quantities.
 
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Vladimir Pantelic

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Jun 16, 2011, 8:12:07 AM6/16/11
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Gerald Coley wrote:
> We are working to change to SanDisk, but obviously you have not tried to buy them in lots of 1000 lately. They are
> almost impossible to get in bulk quantities.

it should be easy to get them here:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/15/shenzhen-mobile-phone-market-going-deeper-inside-huaqiangbei/

:)

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Jun 16, 2011, 8:37:44 AM6/16/11
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True. But the shipping costs are high, airfare, hotels, food, and cab fare!  And then there is the issue with bulging pockets thru US customs!
 
Gerald

Vladimir Pantelic

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Jun 16, 2011, 8:42:42 AM6/16/11
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Gerald Coley wrote:
> True. But the shipping costs are high, airfare, hotels, food, and cab fare! And then there is the issue with bulging
> pockets thru US customs!

then maybe only order the sandisk labels and glue them yourself :)

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Gerald Coley

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Jun 16, 2011, 8:47:18 AM6/16/11
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I like that idea!!
 
Gerlad

WT

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I know I'm REALLY late to the party, but I didn't find anything that helps me with my problem. I have a BeagleBoard Rev C4 and I downloaded the SuperJumbo image to an SD card following this tutorial: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=72795

However, when I get to the part of the tutorial where I have to hold the user button in order to boot, nothing happens. I'm not sure if I'm not holding the button long enough or if something else is wrong. Please Help!

-WT

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Dec 22, 2011, 5:52:44 PM12/22/11
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Nevermind, Got it to work! Apparently, you are supposed to HOLD THE USER BUTTON while PLUGGING IN THE POWER SOURCE. The tutorial wasn't clear on that. Thanks anyway!

Cheers,
-WT

Daniel Escasa

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Got the Jumbo, burned it onto an SD card, ran the create-boot-scr.sh and copied the boot.scr to the first partition -- that's the smaller one, right? -- then tried to boot my Beaglebone with it, but the 4 LEDs just stay lit. the MD5 sums all check out. Wondering if it has to do with the resolution I chose for my monitor? I tried the boot.scr both with and without a res parameter. Also tried disconnecting my monitor.

For reference, my monitor has this at the back:

dick smith
LCD TV with DVD Player
MODEL: GE6607

Then, an encircled check mark followed by N19 GE6607
and
DSE11080793 in a white rectagle

When I connect a source (my laptop, or the 'bone) through HDMI, the monitor status bar says 720p, 60Hz

Do I really need the res parameter in boot.scr?

Thanks in advance
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