Hi Richard,
Don't use the "NetInstall" method for the XM board. Ubuntu dev's made
some assumptions with lucid (released in may of 2010) so it'll never
be compatible with the XM...
The Demo Image should work fine, however note I've only tested them on
an early XM prototype with bad memory.. Just waiting for ups to
deliver my new XM..
Yes.. the only mirror is in the Uk...
Regards,
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Robert Nelson
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You could also try the pre-installed image for Beagle-xM (this will be the
default method that Ubuntu is using for Beagle and Pandaboard for Maverick).
Tomorrow we'll get the Maverick beta release, and the omap image should work
fine at Beagleboard xM (image was tested, but not with A2 board).
You'll be able to get the image at
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-netbook/ports/releases/maverick/ . See
http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/ARM/PreinstalledImage if you need
instructions on how to set up your sd card (quite simple, just a dd, put the
card and boot).
Let us know if you face any bugs at your testing.
Cheers,
--
Ricardo Salveti de Araujo
Did you pull in the x-load patch to support both the Numonyx memory
and the Micron memory? The Rev A2 board will ship with both, so you
need to be sure that you've got that patch applied. Sorry for that,
but memory delivery times became the bottleneck to shipping the xMs
and we therefore got stuck with taking memories from both suppliers.
>
> You'll be able to get the image at
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-netbook/ports/releases/maverick/ . See
> http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/ARM/PreinstalledImage if you need
> instructions on how to set up your sd card (quite simple, just a dd, put the
> card and boot).
>
> Let us know if you face any bugs at your testing.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Ricardo Salveti de Araujo
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Yeah i think the Canonical guys are safe, they were using sakoman's tree...
https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/u-boot-omap3
Otherwise the ones listed on http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu are
directly from angstrom..
Well the xM definitely won't work, the lucid install assumes NAND
flash. (Maverick doesn't care and there's even a builtin overide i
can use to stop it from trying)..
But well darn... Anything weird in "ctrl alt f4"? other then all the
hid/input noise from 2.6.35?
I had just re-qualified that "NetInstall" on "2010-08-24" on my Bx
with the newer 2.6.35 kernel.. I'll retest it quickly...
OK. Just to be perfectly clear, the patch I'm talking about is
http://gitorious.org/beagleboard-validation/x-load/commit/ead751e4a361ce19552ac94bbeba232f12849244
>
> Regards,
>
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> Robert Nelson
> http://www.rcn-ee.com/
>
Crap, yeah that was u-boot, looking at x-load they don't have support
for the future Micron Xm's:
cc'ing Ogra and Loïc
Weird, it works fine for me (B5 Board).. 83% just passed
"busybox-initramfs" was watching ctrl-alt-f4... besides the evbug.c
errors from keyboard input and tar time stamps way off. (i should have
it run ntpdate early to get rid of that issue)..
Ouch, didn't know we needed an extra patch for x-load :-(
Too bad the release target for tomorrow, and we'll probably apply the patch just
after Beta.
Thanks for point it out, will update our package so we can at least have working
xM images for our daily builds, after beta.
I'm using the same UK mirror and based in the states.. (Actually the
UK mirror is the only ports.ubuntu server..)
The only tweak i do when running mine, is to specify a local
apt-cacher-ng mirror with: "http://192.168.0.10:3142/" during the
install when prompted... (mostly to speed up the slow network
download..)
> I was able to parse the error message from console 4; this is not
> verbatim but what I used as a google search this morning.
>
> command not executed: 'sh -c debconf-apt-progress install busybox-
> initramfs ....
>
> I will try again and take better notes if the error occurs again.
Yeah, it's pretty hard with the input errors spaming the log too...
Bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/x-loader/+bug/628243
I just added the pointed patch, so it should now work with both xM versions.
As I still don't have a board with Numonyx, can anyone help me testing the
binary with it?
All you need to do is to download
http://people.canonical.com/~rsalveti/maverick/boot/xM/MLO , put at your SD card
an boot it with your current working image (no need for Ubuntu). When testing,
please post the result at the bug or at this thread so we can push it to our
archives.
Thanks a lot!
Looks good, tested on my Numonyx powered xM A2 will add to the bug notes..
weird, can you do a "ls -lh" on this card.. Btw is this with the
'--firmware' option? I haven't run that in awhile..
On a fresh build (before running the ubuntu install), the cards look like this:
./mk_mmc.sh --mmc /dev/mmcblk0 --distro lucid
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p1 72102 33354 38748 47% /media/boot
./mk_mmc.sh --mmc /dev/mmcblk0 --distro lucid --firmware
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p1 72102 50692 21410 71% /media/boot
voodoo@voodoo-e6400:~/bzr_repo/debian-di$ ls -lh /media/boot/
total 50M
-rwxr-xr-x 1 voodoo voodoo 451 2010-09-01 16:08 boot.cmd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 voodoo voodoo 488 2010-09-01 16:08 boot.scr
-rwxr-xr-x 1 voodoo voodoo 24K 2010-09-01 16:08 MLO
-rwxr-xr-x 1 voodoo voodoo 523 2010-09-01 16:08 normal.scr
drwx------ 2 voodoo voodoo 2.0K 2010-09-01 16:08 tools
-rwxr-xr-x 1 voodoo voodoo 205K 2010-09-01 16:08 u-boot.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 voodoo voodoo 4.0M 2010-09-01 16:08 uImage
-rwxr-xr-x 1 voodoo voodoo 42M 2010-09-01 16:08 uInitrd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 voodoo voodoo 4.1M 2010-09-01 16:08 uInitrd.final
-rwxr-xr-x 1 voodoo voodoo 911 2010-09-01 16:08 user.cmd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 voodoo voodoo 983 2010-09-01 16:08 user.scr
>
> I used the mk_mmc.sh script to create the card. I couldn't find and
> version information in the script, but the first few lines are:
>
> KERNEL_REL=2.6.35.3
> KERNEL_PATCH=1
^
Yeap this is about the only 'version info' other then bzr revision..
I always use bzr trunk from the same repo..
>
> Did you use a different script to create your card?
Regards,
Okay i see the problem.. First the default boot mmc partition is
64Mb.. When selecting the '--firmware' option, the uInird with the
debian installer is just way to big now (40Mb's). During the install
and before switching to the final uIntird that'll be used on a normal
boot, i back up the install uInitrd to "uInitrd.net" with a copy so
(40 + 40 >= 64Mb ) before blowing the orignal away.. I'll need to
spend some time to cut out the crude which isn't needed.. But I'll
bump the partition size and use a 'mv' instead..
Nice, thanks a lot Robert!
> Finally worked out what was needed - network-manager-gnome and network-
> manager packages had to be removed. Then the manual configuration
> worked with WPA encryption and everything. Reinstalling both packages
> actually allowed the nm-applet to run and configure the link but the
> link kept on going down after say 30 seconds (with the local
> choice(reason=3) problem I mentioned earlier) and then re-
> establishing. So I removed both packages again.
>
> The current results are:
>
> Belkin Wireless G USB adaptor (zd1211rw) - seems 100%.
you're saying that that adapter works instantly with ubuntu on the
BB? if that's true, i can get one today so i can play.
rday
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The demo image uses the kernel source and patches built from a script
listed here:
https://code.launchpad.net/~beagleboard-kernel/+junk/2.6-stable
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, TiroKartChief wrote:
> Depends what you mean by instantly :-). I edited the interfaces file
> to add wlan0 and generated a wpa_supplicant configuration file for
> encryption but that's pretty much all. Nothing too bad. The specific
> model number is F5D7050. I should say that in testing it has hung up
> once after shipping a lot of data but I don't know exactly what
> caused that. Probably in normal use it'll be pretty reliable.
>
> Richard.
this is precisely the sort of thing that should be documented.
given that getting the BB-xM up and running on wireless should be a
popular goal, it would be nice to have a precise *recipe* for this,
right down to the usb wireless adapters that are compatible. and i
suspect that recipe would save people a lot of grief.
if you want to post your recipe, i'll be happy to verify it with a
fresh install of ubuntu 10.04.1, then i'll write it up. or you can
write it up. whatever works.
Hey Richard,
Is this the same driver by chance?
It's scheduled for staging in 2.6.37...
I'm already copying tidspbridge from that repo for 2.6.35, i can add it too..
It seems that this happens when you have a Numonyx memory chip. Try
changing your MLO from the first partition to
http://people.canonical.com/~rsalveti/maverick/boot/xM/MLO to see if
it works better.