Problem flashing bzImage
Sam
usb; 8/32 version).
To see if the board worked properly, I tried to upload drazvan-test-
bzImage from the wiki pages. Below is the output, showing that the
data was sent to the board.
./bb_eth_upload8.py eth0 00:00:00:00:00:00 drazvan-test-bzImage
Switch on Bifferboard in the next 10 seconds. Move it! :)
Written chunk at 0
Written chunk at 1
...
Written chunk at 103
Written chunk at 104
All seemed to go well, but the board is just not responding. No DHCP
request made and no telnet response.
Is there a bzImage that someone has that can be uploaded to prove the
board is working (diagnostic) and to show that I am being the twit and
the board is actually OK?
Many thanks,
Sam
biff...@yahoo.co.uk
Andrew Scheller
>> usb; 8/32 version).
I don't think it's the flashing you're having a problem with...
>> ./bb_eth_upload8.py eth0 00:00:00:00:00:00 drazvan-test-bzImage
I'm going to guess that your MAC isn't *really* all-zeros :)
>> Switch on Bifferboard in the next 10 seconds. Move it! :)
>> Written chunk at 0
>> Written chunk at 1
>> ...
>> Written chunk at 103
>> Written chunk at 104
Yeah, that all looks fine...
>> All seemed to go well, but the board is just not responding. No DHCP
>> request made and no telnet response.
>>
>> Is there a bzImage that someone has that can be uploaded to prove the
>> board is working (diagnostic) and to show that I am being the twit and
>> the board is actually OK?
Apparently the boards come already-flashed with a test kernel:
http://groups.google.com/group/bifferboard/browse_thread/thread/4020fb2acac0731b/ec534cf68798355c?lnk=gst&q=test+kernel#ec534cf68798355c
Any thoughts about making it available online Biff?
> This may help:
> http://sites.google.com/site/bifferboard/Home/howto/use-bifferboard-without-serial-programming-cable
Unfortunately those instructions are quite old and openwrt-specific.
(I've never tried Razvan's test image, so dunno what's inside there,
or even if it's actually _supposed_ to work)
If you have a spare USB flash drive, I'd recommend these instructions :)
http://sites.google.com/site/bifferboard/Home/desktop-linux-distributions/slackware/newbie-instructions
If you definitely want a running-from-flash-only setup though, I think
http://sites.google.com/site/bifferboard/Home/howto/faster-route-to-kernel--initrd
was the latest effort in that direction.
There's also http://gitorious.org/minifs/ (which IIRC was a spinoff
from the above page?) but I have no idea what state it's in
currently...
Lurch
Sam
> >> ./bb_eth_upload8.py eth0 00:00:00:00:00:00 drazvan-test-bzImage
>
> I'm going to guess that your MAC isn't *really* all-zeros :)
>
Yes, that was just for the group message!!
> Apparently the boards come already-flashed with a test kernel:http://groups.google.com/group/bifferboard/browse_thread/thread/4020f...
I'm not sure I was sensible enough to test the board before flashing
the Slackware distro, as shown on the Wiki. (I have since got this
distro to boot up again, but is does rely on a USB stick and I really
want a flash based OS.) The Wiki pages are really excellent - they
could only be a little bit better if they had some bleeding-edge pages
on the latest compiling for the 8mb boards. When I get this working I
will try and put something together along these lines.
> If you definitely want a running-from-flash-only setup though, I thinkhttp://sites.google.com/site/bifferboard/Home/howto/faster-route-to-k...
> was the latest effort in that direction.
I will check this out - thanks.
> There's alsohttp://gitorious.org/minifs/(which IIRC was a spinoff
> from the above page?) but I have no idea what state it's in
> currently...
Ditto.
The main objective here is to have a flash based OS that has some of
our own custom configuration (ser2net and some other stuff). All quite
simple and if only I could get my bzImage to work! I really must get a
proper serial cable so I can check if the OS has been recognised,
etc. ....
Many thanks for your help.
Sam
Andrew Scheller
> distro to boot up again, but is does rely on a USB stick and I really
> want a flash based OS.) The Wiki pages are really excellent - they
I guess at least with a 2-port board you still have a free USB port,
even with rootfs on a USB stick.
> The main objective here is to have a flash based OS that has some of
> our own custom configuration (ser2net and some other stuff). All quite
According to this message, it sounds like running openwrt from flash
isn't too far off...
http://groups.google.com/group/bifferboard/browse_thread/thread/25c5bd8b7a3d006/f3ddf6ec78e81846#3962afd0012b2818
Lurch