Downlad Linaro alip 1GB + 512MB image

[Martin Wild]

Hi ,

after blowing up my cubie yesterday with an little bit misstyped command-chain I decided to set up a new system to get rid off all previous mistakes made. ;-)

so here are my new build Linaro alip images for download..

linaro-precise-alip-20121124-519_1GB.7z

http://www7.zippyshare.com/v/85567784/file.html

linaro-precise-alip-20121124-519_512MB.7z

http://www7.zippyshare.com/v/76873765/file.html

both images are untouched with new linux-sunxi-kernel 3.0.52
Password and login is as always linaro:linaro

Regards, Martin

[Rutger Tjallema]

Hi Martin,

Thanks for this. I was trying to build my own images, but failed :(

I just wrote the 1GB image to a 16GB microSD card using roadkill disk image. I was hoping to start my cubieboard from this SD card, but unfortunately it doesn't work out. I've put the SD card in the cubieboard in restarted it. It didn't start from the SD card, and booted android. What do i miss? Can you help me out? 

[Martin Wild]

Hi,
Ive never used roadkill disk image ,and i dont know what it does, so try writing your image again with either win32diskimager ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/)
or just dd it to your sdcard under linux (dd if=IMAGENAME of=/dev/YOURSDCARD bs=1024)
I can see over 60 downloads for my image on zippyshare till now and noone cmplained about it , so think about testing with another sdcard . when your image failed too, the card may have compatibility problems with your cubie....

regards, martin

[Rutger Tjallema]

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your quick reply! Using win32diskimager did the trick. My cubieboard is now running Linaro.

[PsychoDealer]

Are those Linaro images better/newer than berryboot's ?

[Martin Wild]

Hi !

I would not say they are better or newer, but they work a little bit different! ;) The biggest advance of berryboot is the very easy usage suitable for everyone -and there begins the problem for me...
Berryboot uses its own kernel and configuration which can not be as easily replaced as an hardwarepack . I tried it too, and it worked fine for me but i wanted a linux where i could screw around more the way how i wanted it.
anyways it is a really good thing to start with.

Regards ,Martin

[Martin Wild]

Hi
I have updated my images with the latest Hwpacks from 13.Jan , and re upped them here. lets hope the Video-output fixes are already in now! ;)
I build also an full ubuntu desktop image but only for 1GB Cubies. I dont think it will run well with only 512 MB. if you still want to try it just download it and replace the 1GB U-boot with the 512 MB version

http://www20.zippyshare.com/v/3589892/file.html   (1GB linaro alip)

http://www20.zippyshare.com/v/65198770/file.html  (512MB linaro alip)


http://www4.zippyshare.com/v/63163706/file.html    (1GB Ubuntu Desktop Part 1)
http://www4.zippyshare.com/v/93589404/file.html    (1GB Ubuntu Desktop Part 2)


For those of you not familiar with filehosters and their irritating links to -crap you really dont want to download- :

Just klick the download link above, solve the captcha on Zippyshare and then click the download-link directly below it to get an instant full speed download.

Regards, Martin

[Simos Xenitellis]

Could you please also post sha1sums of the above files in case someone
can host them on another website?

Thanks,
Simos

[Lawrence Sheed]

Martin, a comment.

Instead of posting a full image, how about just the kernel, rootfs in separate files, and people can write to SD themselves with the nightly uBoot?

Or, include the kernel with the zip file perhaps (and the .config ), although that can be had via /proc/config.gz typically.

Thoughts?

I can also gladly offer you some FTP space on cubieforums.com if you want to avoid crappy file sharing services.

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[Martin Wild]

Hi,

the reason why i post links to full images is quite simple. if you know how to build your own image from kernel/hwpack and rootfs you already know enough zo have no need for an ready to use image anymore. i was one of the lucky guys that got an cubieboard from the first branch and had real trouble to collect all information needed to get it working. If you try today to get linux on your cubie running instead of android you have to dig through a huge pile of scattered information ,sorting out important info from crap to get this done finding your (roofts) files, (cross)compiling your hwpack, understanding what thing does what and more. And there are the prebuild images! -As quickstart for beginners like me that dont have the time to find out what a ?U-boot? (in germany U-Boot means Submarine! :) is or what the BOR loader does before they can use their new toy!  starting up is way more fun when the screen is not black all the time! :)

and for the ftpspace , this sounds like a good idea! Right npw i am at work, ill contact you when i have the time.


Regards , Martin

[Rutger Tjallema]

Hi,

I am really thankfull that Martin posted full image files instead of the way Lawrence sugests. As a newbee to this stuff, i wasn't able to built my own image, so i was happy to use the image posted by Martin.

OT: Martin, you say you hope that the Video-output had been fixed. Does this mean that it is 1080p? Thanks for posting these images, i will test them this evening.

Regards

[Martin Wild]

Hi, and thanks!

The Display issues i mentioned are not the resolutions used by the image but the possible resolutions the cubieboard can display to create better compatibility to TV's and monitor's. If you want to have 1080p output you'll have to edit script.bin from the fat partition of the image and change it there. (See http://linux-sunxi.org/Fex_Guide )

Regards, Martin

[Martin Wild]

[George Ioakimedes]

Thanks Martin. I agree with both Rutgear and Lawrence. When you're first starting out it's better to take all of the variables out and get to using the system and learning so having a working image is great. Once you pass that hurdle then it's good as Lawrence said to have things broken out so you don't have large downloads and updating is easier.

I too have a server here in the US that we can use for images but since Lawrence is hosting cubieforums it might be best to place them there.

[Martin Wild]

Hi,

I agree with both too, i also started with absolutely no knowledge of how A10 socs work, how they boot or what files are my config files to set up anything.
fortunately i am familiar with Linux since years and so I am used not to have a fancy interface with self-explaining buttons to do everything.
every progress begins with the first step and (most) noobs like me just need just a point to start at.
having all parts seperately available also has its benefits when you took the first hurdles. just replacing the kernel or u-boot is way faster then re- setting up your system from scratch. (but i dont get the point why someone would install the nightly U-boot releases? this is the only part i never needed to uptdate after my system worked )
but i aint have more time to invest into my cubieboard than i do right now. but if anyone of you likes to take my images and make them available elsewhere feel free to do so! Ithink this would definetly help the cubie-community, and make it a little more beginner-friendly. i also knit some kind of tutorial together about howto create your own card. but some links went dead ,and need to get updated. (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/cubieboard/tutorial/cubieboard/hKJgJneGVmQ/_VvBWnJDwMgJ)


Regards , Martin

[Rutger Tjallema]

Hi Martin,

I've tried your image files. The full ubuntu desktop version works great. It is a bit slow, but this was to be expected. One remarkable thing i have to mention: the cursor moved very smooth. In linaro it didn't. Is it possible that the GPU is better supported by drivers in the full desktop version? 

The Linaro image didn't work out so well unfortunately. I've tried it several times, but every time it stopped booting at a different point of the booting process. I've flashed the SD-card a second time with the same image, and even a third time with the image 'freshly' downloaded, all with the same result.

Probably i'm doing something wrong or am i missing some big thing. I'm sorry for that, i've to accuse my newbieness ;)

[George Ioakimedes]

I just tried the linaro-precise-alip-20121124-519_1gb-v2.7z file and (using win32diskimager) It also does not fully boot for me either. I have not looked at the script.bin file yet but I thought I would try it really quick

[Martin Wild]

Hi,

@Rutger, yes it is possible that the cpu-settings are modified inside the ubuntu desktop image.
try the sudo-command "sudo cpufreq-info" and have a look what it tells you. the unmodified default for th cpu is governor;ondemand clock 60mhz -1.01Ghz.
if you aint have the cpufreq-infoinstalled, install the package using apt "sudo apt-get install cpufrequtils" . "sudo cpufreq-set -g performance"  puts the cpu governor to full speed
this should speed up linaro a lot....

@ both , i did not try the 1GB image for building the last few always worked and my cubieboard has only 512 mb. ill check if something gone wrong and reupp in case.
till then download the image from the first post of this thread . this is confirmed to work and just 2 weeks older.


regards , Martin

[georg...@gmail.com]

Thanks Martin, this is useful information. I have been trying Linaro the past few days and to put it bluntly it has been dog slow (sorry for the slang).

 

[Pedro Novo]

@ Martin: Hi. This is very nice! I have a noob question: these two files you made available for the ubuntu desktop, should they be merged to a single one and then writen to the sd card? I should I proceed? (How to write to the sd card I know ;) )

Thanks

[Martin Wild]

Hi!

The Ubuntu desktop image is an multi volume 7zip archive that just needs to be decompressed Before writing to your sdcard.

Regards, martin

[Martin Wild]

Hi, Folks!

As promised , here is the re-upp of the former posted images .
I've tried to run -both- former uploaded linaro-precise-alip-20121124-519 images on my cubie 512 with the effect: 1g not
working, 512 mb working! (did no surprise me somehow ! :) so i've created both again with the newest experimental kernel 3.4
this time and tested them. Results: 512Mb working , 1GB working too with many garbeled graphic bullpie due to wrong memory
setup. (same effect occours when running Berryboot 1Gb on 512Mb board without the correct U-boot) So both should work now.

Here are the links to ALL the images ive created so far:

http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/72900353/file.html (debian wheezy clean untouched, confirmed working kernel 3.0.52)

http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/31459873/file.html (same debian with XBMC installed, ip fixed to 192.168.1.155
http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/97501200/file.html  download all files, join them, untar and write to Sdcard
http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/85437757/file.html  see http://linux-sunxi.org/XBMC for hints and howto run;added roman
                                                                           headless server kernel uImage in /dev/mmcblkp01)

http://www7.zippyshare.com/v/85567784/file.html  (linaro-precise-alip-20121124-519_1GB, Confirmed working kernel 3.0.52)

http://www7.zippyshare.com/v/76873765/file.html  (linaro-precise-alip-20121124-519_512MB, Confirmed working kernel 3.0.52)

http://www20.zippyshare.com/v/3589892/file.html  (linaro-precise-alip-20121124-519_1GB v2, Seems not to work kernel 3.0.52)

http://www20.zippyshare.com/v/65198770/file.html (linaro-precise-alip-20121124-519_512MB v2 , tested by me  kernel 3.0.52)

http://www34.zippyshare.com/v/75200239/file.html (linaro-precise-alip-20121124-519_1GB v2,  tested by me kernel 3.4)

http://www34.zippyshare.com/v/51387578/file.html ((linaro-precise-alip-20121124-519_512MB v2 , tested by me kernel 3.4)


For the debian images: The XBMC image here is set up as small server with Lamp (apache2,PHP,Mysql (passwords found             
                                   in /var/www/pass)),
                                   A10 XBMC istalled, Samba, and fixed I...@192.168.1.155
                                   Standard Sunxi-, and Roman-serverkernel are included (switch by changing uImage)
                                  (launch XMBC with ./allwinner/xbmc-pvr-binhf/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin)
                                  login is debian deault so : User: root Password: password

                                  donwload all 3 parts to one directory,to join them open an terminal and enter:

                                  Linux  ---> cat wheezy.0* > wheezy.tar.bz
                                  Windows---> copy /B wheezy.01+wheezy.02+wheezy.03 wheezy.tar.bz
                                  then untar and write to an >=4GB Card.

For linaro images: all linaro images are untouched with login linaro:linaro
                           to get rid of annoying root autologins rename /etc/init/openvt.conf to /etc/init/openvt.conf.noboot
                           and edit /etc/default/autogetty to disable tty and serial autologin (you should also install cpufrequtils to set up an acceptable CPU-behaviour)

Regards, Martin

[George Ioakimedes]

Thanks Martin. I'll download and try out the 1GB version but somehow the uSD socket has broken on my Cubie and I need to hopefully fix it. The spring latch isn't holding the card in so I can't boot off of any SD cards at the moment which really sucks because that is what I was using to try and debug VGA.

Are there any clear instructions somewhere that I can follow perhaps to boot my board from NAND with the version 1 Android image and then SSH in to copy/edit/replace the script.bin file on the NAND/ I've been able to SSH in but scp wasn't working through my Unbuntu running in a VM nor was WinSCP running on on Win7 x64 machine.

If I could do that it would at least let me continue testing different script.bin files although I think the kernel also needs to be modified to support VGA output.

[Floris Bos]

On 01/25/2013 11:26 PM, George Ioakimedes wrote:
> Are there any clear instructions somewhere that I can follow perhaps
> to boot my board from NAND with the version 1 Android image and then
> SSH in to copy/edit/replace the script.bin file on the NAND/ I've been
> able to SSH in but scp wasn't working through my Unbuntu running in a
> VM nor was WinSCP running on on Win7 x64 machine.

Note that under Android you should be able to switch to VGA under
"system settings" -> "display" -> "display output mode"

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Floris Bos

[Bastiaan van den Berg]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:26 PM, George Ioakimedes <georg...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been able to SSH in but scp wasn't working through my Unbuntu running in a VM nor was WinSCP running on on Win7 x64 machine.

For scp to work to a host, you need to have a scp binary installed on that host. So if scp to a host (that does work with ssh) its 9 out 10 times the case; that the ssh session you are connecting to cant execute and/or find the scp binary.

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[George Ioakimedes]

@Floris Yes, I saw that in Android I can switch to VGA mode but since I'm testing the VGA output and so far have not gotten an image I didn't want to get stuck with a black screen. I've already got some files and apps in the NAND and I don't have a backup of that so if I had to overwrite the NAND I'd be looking at more wasted time.

Got any good ideas?

[George Ioakimedes]

So what app do you run on Android for this to work then? I know my host works because this is the same setup I used to get into Raspberry Pi

[Floris Bos]

It switches back to the old display setting if you do not confirm the
new mode within a number of seconds.
But yes, should make a backup first.


Yours sincerely,

Floris Bos

[tanera]

Thanks for images.

 I am using linaro image with kernel 3.0.52, is it possible to just update kernel on that image ? Because I don't want to setup it again in case new image.

thanks

tanera

[Martin Wild]

Hi,!

Yes it is possible just to update your kernel or u-boot
1. Download your new hardwarepack
2. Decompress it into an folder and CD there
3. Copy new uimage from ./kernel folder to /dev/mmcblkp01
4. Copy everything from ./rootfs folder into your sdcard rootfs (just the contents,not the folder itself!)
5. Eventually update u-boot located in ./bootloader (see u-boot wiki on linux-sunxi.org for details.
6. Reboot
7. Happy! :)

Regards,Martin

[Pedro Novo]

Hi, Thanks.

I tested two of your images: the ubuntu is very nice but the board is a bit slow. The linaro with the kernel 3.4 had a very strange video. The screen was a list of horizontal stripes :S Now I am using a Linaro image (runs faster than Ubuntu).

How could I install LibreOffice, Eclipse, python (linux is suposed to include python already right? but still I need to instal libraries) etc or any other software? Because from what I read on these forums one should know exactly which software versions will work with the processor family (not like the traditional x86 a x64).

Thank you!

[Martin Wild]

Hi, to install libreoffice you dont need to get anything from elsewhere. just open an terminal and do:

sudo -s
apt-get update
apt-get install libreoffice

this will install libreoffice with all required packages and probably python too.

regards, Martin

[PsychoDealer]

Can i use bin2fex and fex2bin commands using vmware player with ubuntu installes on windows pc ?

[George Ioakimedes]

That's exactly what I do. I use VirtualBox to run Ubuntu x64 (my PC OS is Win7 x64)

[PsychoDealer]

Nice thanks!

[Martin Andersson]

Hi!

I want to use ufw and iptables so I need to update the kernel with these modules. Where can I find a hardware pack that works with cubieboard ?

I currently have your linaro-precise-alip 1GB image with kernel 3.0.52.

Sorry if it's a stupid question  but I'm a complete newbie to kernel modules and such.

Thanks in advance

//Martin

[George Ioakimedes]

Try this, Martin Wild posted this from another thread:

You can always get the latest versions of rootfs and hwpack from this links:

http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/amery/sunxi-3.0/latest/ (hwpacks)

http://releases.linaro.org/12.11/ubuntu/precise-images/alip (linaro images)

http://releases.linaro.org/12.11/ubuntu/precise-images  (different image types for ARM cpus)

those files get replaced once in a while to make space for the new ones, so if a link is down just browse the folders for the object you are looking for ,and download.
The commands to create an bootable card always stay the same (even if you use another rootfs like Arch,Debian,Fedora,etc) just replace the filnames of hwpack /rootfs
with the ones you want to use as long as they come as tarballs.

git clone https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-bsp/ 
cd sunxi-bsp 

wget "yourhwpacklink"
wget  "yourrootfslink"
./scripts/sunxi-media-create.sh /dev/YOURSDCARD YOURHWPACK YOURROOTFS

eject /dev/YOURSDCARD

[Martin Wild]

Hi!

I dont think any of these files will include iptables.
I dont know anymore who wrote it , but Iptables is not included inside Linux-sunxi-standard-kernel and you need to build a kernel that supports it if you want to uses it.
Maybe try to ask Roman Mamedov if he could help you with this. He builds his own A10 (server) kernels and has its own homepage @ http://romanrm.ru/en.
He is also active inside Cubieboard forum.


Regards, Martin

[PsychoDealer]

I used your linaro alip 1gb v2 image and i'm trying to : bzcat patch-3.7.4.bz2 | patch -p1 , but i keep getting error : ''can't find file to patch at input line 5''   and then asks for file to patch...where can i find that file? Also, after i wrote the linaro image to my sandisk 8gb card, system regognize it as an 60mb card... how do i expand this limit?? (like on berryboot's boot menu ''expand'' option)

[Martin Wild]

Hmm, i dont have anyclue  for your first problem , but your card is definetly not just 60mb in size. this is just the boot partition (/dev/mmcblk0p1) which is the only one windows can see.
your main partition is /dev/mmcblk0p2 and is somewhat about 4GB. to expand this eaysily you should either have an pc running linux and use Gparted ,or you need another 4GB card to boot your cubie with and an usb cardreader to use Gparted in linaro on your 8GB card. you cannot resize the root parition while it is active for it needs to get unmounted before doing this.


Regards, Martin

[Roman Mamedov]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:57:09 -0800 (PST)
Martin Wild <lilc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I dont think any of these files will include iptables.
> I dont know anymore who wrote it , but Iptables is not included inside
> Linux-sunxi-standard-kernel and you need to build a kernel that supports it
> if you want to uses it.
> Maybe try to ask Roman Mamedov if he could help you with this. He builds

> his own A10 (server) kernels and has its own homepage @ http://romanrm.ru<http://romanrm.ru/en/a10/kernel>
> /en.

> He is also active inside Cubieboard forum.

Hello,

My kernels and .configs at http://romanrm.ru/en/a10/kernel already include full
iptables/ip6tables support, both in the Desktop and in the Server versions.

If the "sunxi-standard-kernel" you are referring to was built from the
defconfig, then I believe it's not designed to be actually used by people, it
lacks way too many features. It is not useful for anything other than very
limited architecture testing (perhaps to verify that your board does indeed
boot up).

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with code he could not see.
So he began to tinker,
and set the software free."

[Martin Wild]

Ok, Roman, my fault!

this is the thread i was reffering to: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/cubieboard/iptables/cubieboard/nFw9nSQY5ks/t9hc7Z_9BZQJ

I didnt follow it, so i coud not know it is already solved long ago by you ! :)

Regards, Martin

[Martin Andersson]

Thanks to Roman and his kernel my cubieboard is now up and running with ufw enabled!

Thank you!

//Martin

[PsychoDealer]

Thanks , i finally got under windows,  disk and partition management at control panel and saw the whole partition thing in there.

[tanera]

Thank you Martin...

[aps...@hotmail.com]

Hi,

I like your Debian Image.

I add a SATA HDD.

and today I add a spdif connector. It works OK.

It's almost my SAMBA+MPD+XBMC home entertainment Center.

 

but there is a problem with XBMC.

I attach a image file. Please check it.

I think there are some confusion about red green blue color sequence . not in all Display out only xbmc.

i am using HDMI OUT to LG TV 1080P/60Hz

 

Anybody have no problem like this?

 

Regards,

Kangsik

 

 

2013년 1월 26일 토요일 오전 6시 47분 46초 UTC+9, Martin Wild 님의 말:

[George Ioakimedes]

Kangsik: is that output from HDMI?

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yes,

 

HDMI OUT to LG TV 1080P/60Hz

 

 

2013년 2월 3일 일요일 오전 2시 28분 15초 UTC+9, George Ioakimedes 님의 말:

[George Ioakimedes]

Did you modify the FEX file or is this happening with the "stock" image? Might be something with XBMC as I haven't seen that. If you boot from NAND is HDMI output OK?

[tanera]

Hi, 

thanks again Martin.  I found another easiest way of updating kernel without creating rootfs per your media create instructions in an another post;

git clone https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-bsp/ 

cd sunxi-bsp 

download kernel (wget http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/amery/../cubieboard_hwpack.tar.xz)

./scripts/sunxi-media-create.sh /dev/sdc cubieboard_hwpack.tar.xz norootfs

kind regards, tanera

[George Ioakimedes]

except you should use this link for the latest hardware packs, http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/amery/sunxi-3.0/latest/

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Hi Martin, 

Thanks for your great help. 

I'm trying to download the image from Debian with XBMC and it seems that the some file is corrupted. Is there any other mirror where I can try to download the image file?

Thanks

[Martin Wild]

I doubt there is a file corrupted. This image got downloaded and tested by many people. Try downloading and putting the three image parts together again. If you can untar the image without crc-errors everything should be fine.

Regards, Martin

[Martin Wild]

Hi again!

I Just tried myself.
Downloaded wheezy.01 wheezy.02 wheezy.03 joined them in Windows with "copy /B wheezy.01+wheezy.02+wheezy.03 wheezy.tar.bz" ,unpacked and wrote to 4gb sdcard.
Opened it in Linux Mint and everything seems fine.

anyways i suggest you to update the Hardwarepack included with an actual one and do an "apt-get update ,and,  apt-get upgrade" to bring this image up to date...

Regards, Martin

[Davn]

Hi!

Prompt taken from the source? git address? You can link to a resource?

I want to collect under your requirements!

PS I can not find the kernel-devel or linux-headers, for assembly.

[P. A.]

thanks Martin,

I will try again.

BR

[Yoyo Sanchez]

Hello there !

As I received my CubieBoard this week, I wanna try to run alternate GNU/Linux system (the goal is to have a upnp/mail-caldav-cardav/sftp/more server at home available throught the net).
But I only have a 2Go µSD card. Is there a way to shrink img files (or force win32diskimager to copy img to it) ? Is 2Go enough for Linaro/wheezy ?

Thanks

[Roman Mamedov]

My Debian Wheezy image is made for a 2GB SD card:
http://romanrm.ru/en/a10/debian

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With respect,
Roman

[Yoyo Sanchez]

Thanks a lot ! :-D

But I still have a problem with win32diskimager : my 2GB µSD card doesn't have enough space ... O_o
Tried with another one : same problem. I'll do a dd under GNU/Linux to bypass this. Hope your system doesn't use all 2GB.

[Floris Bos]

On 02/13/2013 04:09 PM, Yoyo Sanchez wrote:
> Thanks a lot ! :-D
>

> But I still have a problem with win32diskimager : my 2GB �SD card

> doesn't have enough space ... O_o
> Tried with another one : same problem. I'll do a dd under GNU/Linux to
> bypass this. Hope your system doesn't use all 2GB.

Alternatively you can use Berryboot, which supports any SD card over 64
MB, and allows you to store the root filesystem elsewhere (e.g. on USB
stick or a Synology NAS device)

OS images are also smaller, since they use Squashfs LZO compression.

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[Yoyo Sanchez]

I saw that yesterday evening. This is a great idea !

But my network hasn't any dhcp server and I can't handle a way to ask BerryBoot to use a specific ip/gw/netmask etc. (eventually dns).
I have to edit /etc/network/interfaces each time I boot to BerryBoot. Is there a way to make this change permanent ?

Thanks

Someone could help ?

Le mercredi 13 février 2013 16:41:57 UTC+1, Floris a écrit :

On 02/13/2013 04:09 PM, Yoyo Sanchez wrote:
> Thanks a lot ! :-D
>

> But I still have a problem with win32diskimager : my 2GB �SD card

[Floris Bos]

On 02/14/2013 04:18 PM, Yoyo Sanchez wrote:
> I saw that yesterday evening. This is a great idea !
>
> But my network hasn't any dhcp server and I can't handle a way to ask
> BerryBoot to use a specific ip/gw/netmask etc. (eventually dns).
> I have to edit /etc/network/interfaces each time I boot to BerryBoot.
> Is there a way to make this change permanent ?
>

The latest version supports static network configurations.
Option is "hidden" under "add OS" -> "network settings"


Yours sincerely,

Floris Bos

[Floris Bos]

On 02/14/2013 04:43 PM, Yoyo Sanchez wrote:

Could I use the berryboot-20130213.zip on my cubieboard instead of berryboot-cubieboard-beta4.zip on the BerryBoot A10 page ?

If you only have a Cubieboard you need berryboot-cubieboard-beta4.zip
If you have both a Raspberry and a Cubie, you can perform the initial installation on the Raspberry with 20130213 and use the SD card in the Cubie afterwards.
The software is compatible with both devices AFTER INSTALLATION.


Yours sincerely,

Floris Bos

[Thiago]

Hello Martin,

Thanks for the builds.... I am currently using the debian with XBMC installed (the one split in three parts).

Can you tell me if SATA is enabled on that build?

One more thing, while running dmesg, I've seen the following message:

"Total Detected Memory: 512MB (via Allwinner's Hack)" and "Memory: 512MB = 512MB total"

Was that particular build made for 512MB?? My cubie is supposed to have 1GB (indiegogo campaign November/2012), shouldn't it report 1GB??

Thanks,
Thiago

[Martin Wild]

Yes, i only own an 512 Mb cubie and so this image is set up for it. Just replace U-boot with an 1Gb-Version and youll be fine. also update the kernel when you do this.
start your cubie with the xbmc image , and do this as sudo :

git clone https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-bsp/
cd sunxi-bsp

wget http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/amery/sunxi-3.0/latest/cubieboard_hwpack.tar.xz
./scripts/sunxi-media-create.sh /dev/mmcblk0 cubieboard_hwpack.tar.xz norootfs

this should update the used hardwarepack (U-boot,Kernel , modules) without changing anything else on the image. just reboot after the process has finished.
Ive never tried this on my running cubie (manually it works but i dont know if the script also does the trick) ,so if this fails for whatever reason ,do this on an Pc runnin linux and adapt your sdcard-path.
And, yes , SATA is enabled (and will be with the new Hwpack).

Regards,Martin

[Thiago Palmieri]

Hi Martin,

Thank you very much for your support (and image).

I ran into two problems while doing the steps you've mentioned.

The first was that sudo was not installed, no problem there just ran apt-get and that's solved.

The second is that I received a lot of "sudo: unable to resolve host debian" as can be seen below:

===

=== Copy U-Boot/SPL to SD Card ===

===

sudo: unable to resolve host debian

20+0 records in

20+0 records out

20480 bytes (20 kB) copied, 0.00707872 s, 2.9 MB/s

sudo: unable to resolve host debian

169+1 records in

169+1 records out

173412 bytes (173 kB) copied, 0.0175691 s, 9.9 MB/s

sudo: unable to resolve host debian

sudo: unable to resolve host debian

Copy VFAT partition files to SD Card

sudo: unable to resolve host debian

sudo: unable to resolve host debian

===

=== Copy hwpack rootfs files ===

===

sudo: unable to resolve host debian

sudo: unable to resolve host debian

sudo: unable to resolve host debian

sudo: unable to resolve host debian

Done.

The "Done" means that the upgrade was ok? Or the host name problem prevented it?

Thanks once more !

2013/2/20 Martin Wild <lilc...@gmail.com>

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[Martin Wild]

Hi,

i also have this hostname problem . seems something wrong with the debian image.
but everything should be fine if  "free" does now show about 800 MB usable ram .
if not you can always unpack the hwpack wget downloaded "tar -xf HARDWAREPACK" and write the contents of the direcrorys manually to your sdcard

-bootloader (Contains U-boot, write with dd directly . See http://linux-sunxi.org/U-boot howto do this )
-kernel      (Contains uImage + Script.bin for /dev/mmcblk0p1)
-rootfs        (Contains kernelmodules ,drivers and config files to be directly copied into / )

Regards, martin

[Roman Mamedov]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:54:01 -0800 (PST)
Martin Wild <lilc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i also have this hostname problem . seems something wrong with the debian
> image.

Into /etc/hosts add " debian" at the end of line beginning from "127.0.0.1".

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[Martin Wild]

Thanks , Roman

I was already wondering what the problem is ! when i enter "hostname" debian gets resolved correctly.
by the way, aren't you going to support your desktop-kernel anymore? when i take a look at your homepage there is curently only the plain server version shown under
http://romanrm.ru/en/a10/kernel .


Regards, Martin

[Thiago Palmieri]

Hello guys, thank you all for your support on this issue !

2013/2/21 Martin Wild <lilc...@gmail.com>

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[Martin Wild]

No Problem! but dont expect too much from it!

the XBMC installed is working but not like you want to watch your movies with it. but the Media-Server part (Apache2,Mysql,Mpd,Ampache,Samba) is worth a look!
checkout YOURCUBIEIP/amp inside your browser and login into ampache with the login data from /var/www/pass . This tool is worth a look if you want your music available,downloadable, or playing anywhere you want.

[Thiago Palmieri]

Thanks Martin.

I was not expecting to use XBMC, I want to use CB as a media/NAS server, so the other packages are the ones that interest me the most.

Currently I'm configuring it to share via Samba and NFS also (maybe I'll try UPnP or DLNA later....)

I've just discovered that my CB is having problems with MALI module (handles GPU) it freezes on every kernel I try to use. Dunno if its a hardware problem or something with my HDMI monitor, so XBMC is out of the question (I'm using the roman headless uImage).

2013/2/21 Martin Wild <lilc...@gmail.com>

[Collin Miller]

Hi Martin,

 

Thanks for all of these builds. I tried your Wheezy XBMC (3 joined files) and your clean Wheezy on my 1GB Cubie and I could not get any of them to boot from the SD card. I am a windows user using WinImage to write the SD cards and it has worked for other builds, but I really wanted to try your XBMC build. I tried it on 3 different cards from 4GB (where I did get a write error) to 32GB.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks in advance!

Collin

[Martin Wild]

Hi,

forget those links ! ive upped the image again and updated them at :http://linux-sunxi.org/More-images (the debian server images).
they are now 7zip and only two parts to extract without joining.

but  the non-booting clean wheezy is a bit strange ! Zippyshare reports to me 535 Dowloads until today (and ~300 for xbmc) , and noone reported any boot problems until now. so maybe try a different card if you still cannot boot after re-downloading. oh, and maybe test it when written with win32diskimager.

Regards, Martin

[Collin Miller]

Thanks Martin. I finally got out and picked up some new SD cards of types that I know have worked in other builds that I have tried and the same thing occurred. Red light only. No boot. I will try to get to trying some other of your builds this week and let you know if I happen to uncover anything that could help you or others down the road.

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[Martin Wild]

You should check if the problem really depends on your image/card and not your monitor! Many displays can't handle the default resolution your cubie provides. So if you use an hdmi to dvi adapter this is most likely your problem. Also the red led is all you need for operation.all other must be enabled in your image (which is not done in the ones I created). You can take a look at your network connectivity to see if your cubie boots. Else try plugging it into an "true" hdmi capable tv before buying more sdcards ! ;)

Regards, Martin

[Uhrheber]

Interesting board, but expensive: http://www.udoo.org/

[Martin Wild]

Yep, interesting board !

And also totally out ouf topic! ;)

*g* Martin

[Uhrheber]

Well, all those boards (cubie, pcduino, olimexino, hackberry, udoo) play more ore less in the same league.
Ok, the udoo isn't allwinner, but it will compete against the Allwinner dual/quad core development boards.
Also it shows the continuing interest in Arduino hardware.
So, I'm sure that an A10/20 board with level translators and Arduino shield compatible headers would find many buyers.
The Pcduino concept of running the Arduino IDE on the board itself, and compiling native code for it, isn't bad at all. Not everybody likes python.
Would they be able to compile code for a realtime extension, then it would be even better.

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[Uhrheber]

Just a thought:

Would it be possible to run Android or Linux only on one core of an A20,
and bare metal code (means: realtime capable) on the other core?
Doing so, one could run the development environment on the OS, and compile
for the other core, maybe even debug it.

[Martin Wild]

to 1. Yes you are right! All those boards play basically in the same league and compete agaI don't have any programming skills worth to mention, but to realize what you want you would need two kernels running in one cpu and two memory arrays that don't know anything from each other using the same hardware and don't get each other in the way.
and two memory arrays that don't know anything from each other using the same hardware and don't get each other in the way.
So I doubt this is without many problems or huge effort possible. Better buy a second board! :)

Regards, Martin

[Martin Wild]

wow, this last post got crippled somehow! ! :)

To make it short: you're right with those boards, but still absolutely wrong topic here!
And to 2.I don't think this will work or much sense to try it. Rather buy a second board

Regards, Martin

[Martin Wild]

[Gabor Molnar]

What are you thinking about this? 

http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ubuntu-for-android

2013/4/17 Martin Wild <lilc...@gmail.com>

Regards, Martin

[Bastiaan van den Berg]

Ubuntu4Android just runs all processes divided over all cores.

I don't think anything about it.

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[Collin Miller]

It is plugged directly into an HDMI input on my plasma.

On Apr 17, 2013 1:20 AM, "Martin Wild" <lilc...@gmail.com> wrote:

You should check if  the problem really depends on your image/card and not your monitor! Many displays can't handle the default resolution your cubie provides. So if you use an hdmi to dvi adapter this is most likely your problem. Also the red led is all you need for operation.all other must be enabled in your image (which is not done in the ones I created). You can take a look at your network connectivity to see if your cubie boots. Else try plugging it into an "true" hdmi capable tv before buying more sdcards ! ;)

Regards, Martin

[Martin Wild]

Ok, If that's so is should really work! ;)

Have you tried with Berryboot? I would not recommend it if you are trying to set up an Server because you cannot easily change Kernel/Hardwarepacks ,but for desktop and testing purpose it is pretty good! Easy to install from nothing and it also works on most displays.

Regards, Martin

[Collin Miller]

Yep. Berryboot/Ubuntu works great. Just cannot get your build to boot for some reason. I will try again when I get some free time again. Hopefully this weekend.

Thanks again for the advise.

[Simos Xenitellis]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Uhrheber <uhrh...@gtfe.de> wrote:

Interesting board, but expensive: http://www.udoo.org/

With delivery on September 2013 (or probably a few months later).

There are lots of similar developer boards, and it would make someone dizzy if they switch from one to another.

If you want to go deeper, it is important to pick a project with a good supportive community so that you can solve any technical issues.

If we want to further feed our ADHD, there is even this http://www.zdnet.com/parallella-the-99-linux-supercomputer-7000014036/

Looks amazing, but it requires special programming in order to make use of the full capacity of the chip.

Simos

[matsma...@googlemail.com]

Just a quick question to martin:

Due to some trouble with HDMI I want to use your Ubuntu server build on the cubieboard using SSH for adminitstration purposes.

I have tested your image and it boots up (without video output on a full hd dvi LCD ) and I can ping the device but I cannot connect via SSH. Can you integrate SSH in your build or is it already integrated?

Thanks in advance

[Martin Wild]

If you are taking about the linaro quantal server image then there should be output via hdmi! This is only the linaro server build with an standard kernel...
For your ssh problem, you can connect an keyboard and do blind ( if network is connected) after login with linaro:linaro "apt-get update" and then "apt-get install ssh" to install ssh if missing.

Regards, Martin

[Stefan Boller]

but wait a while after the update command.

better is imho this: apt-get update && apt-get install ssh

this will start the command after the other. But you have to wait :) you can put a "&& restart" and look at the LEDs :)

[Stefan Boller]

&& reboot

not restart :)

[Roman Mamedov]

I don't think you can be serious to recommend meddling with "blind apt-get
install ssh". Better would be to ask whoever made that image to include SSH
from the start, or just use a different image altogether.

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[Martin Wild]

Hi!

@Roman

Why should that be a bad idea? Assuming (I forgot to write that earlier) he is using my
Quantal image what's the problem in adding ssh blindly?

Regards, Martin

[Roman Mamedov]

On Mon, 13 May 2013 22:43:47 -0700 (PDT)
Martin Wild <lilc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why should that be a bad idea? Assuming (I forgot to write that earlier) he is using my
> Quantal image what's the problem in adding ssh blindly?

Because it is not a good user experience to expect every person to blindly
type commands into nowhere and pray it works. What stops the image's author,
or you if it's your image, from just doing an update of the image with ssh
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[Stefan Boller]

maybe security reason? you can´t say someone what to include in HIS image ;)

[Shane Morris]

I've just downloaded the 1GB image as at the head of this post, and found the password "linaro" does not work for the user "linaro" as used by auto login.

At the moment, I am unable to change the UNIX password, per "passwd" and also am unable to change the network settings, and I am even unable to shutdown! I understand this is the security policy as shipped, nothing out of the ordinary there, its just not actually knowing if the password is actually supposed to be "linaro" is a bit frustrating.

I would like to use this software image for use as a home automation controller, and the LXDE interface is quite good and lightweight, but the software makes my Cubie an expensive paperweight and halts development.

Has there been an update to the image file with a new password? Am I the only person to have reported this problem? Or is it simply something I am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Martin Wild]

Hmm, strange....

The image has never been changed, and  no one complained about that until now.
So i guess you are doing something wrong.


Regards, Martin