Loading Angstrom onto an SSD

[JB Williams]

Hello. I am attempting to load the latest production image (production-Angstrom-development-GNOME-image-eglibc-ipk-v2012.12-minnow-2013.07.10.img) onto and SSD and boot this on the minnow.

I have tried dd'ing the image to the SSD and then editing the grub.conf:

menuentry 'boot'{

linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro rootwait quiet  console=ttyPCH0,115200 console=tty0 vmalloc=256MB snd-hda-intel.enable_msi=0 

}

This gets me to the grub prompt starts to boot and then the system just hangs. 

Is anyone able to tell me what I may be doing wrong, what I should try or just has plain instructions on how to accomplish this?

Thanks.

-JBw

[Bryan Smith]

Hey JB,

You have the wrong image buddy, it's the kernel actually. Being that everything is primarily builtin there isn't a ramdisk there so the rootfs needs to be on mmc. No modules for your sata disk are there.

You need to grab this image instead, but I'd go for the other link I have pasted which is newer and actually the latest.

v2012.12

http://dominion.thruhere.net/koen/angstrom/minnow/Angstrom-development-GNOME-image-eglibc-ipk-v2012.12-minnow-2013.09.10.hddimg.xz

v2013.06 

http://dominion.thruhere.net/koen/angstrom/minnow/Angstrom-development-GNOME-image-eglibc-ipk-v2013.06-minnow-2013.09.10.hddimg.xz

Koen posted a message here with the relevant links titled "New SD card images for minnow, please test"

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/minnowboard/angstrom/minnowboard/vCAGbw81N0Q/wI6jUSD-wFYJ

Bryan

[JB Williams]

Bryan,

Thank you for clearing that up. Hddimg (slaps forehead), makes sense (laughs). 

Technical details notwithstanding (although they are very appreciated) I didn't see any docs that at least say: use these images for sata. 

Maybe I missed it, but everything I found seemed so focused on the sdcard. No doubt there was thickheadedness involved as well.

Thanks again.

-JBw

[Scott Garman]

On 10/18/2013 06:17 AM, JB Williams wrote:
> Bryan,
>
> Thank you for clearing that up. Hddimg (slaps forehead), makes sense
> (laughs).
>
> Technical details notwithstanding (although they are very appreciated) I
> didn't see any docs that at least say: use these images for sata.
>
> Maybe I missed it, but everything I found seemed so focused on the
> sdcard.

You're right about this. Jayneil - we'll need to document this process
for installing the image onto a hard drive on the wiki.

Scott

>
> Thanks again.
>
> -JBw
>
> On Friday, October 18, 2013 2:08:50 AM UTC-4, Bryan Smith wrote:
>
> Hey JB,
>
> You have the wrong image buddy, it's the kernel actually. Being that
> everything is primarily builtin there isn't a ramdisk there so the
> rootfs needs to be on mmc. No modules for your sata disk are there.
>
> You need to grab this image instead, but I'd go for the other link I
> have pasted which is newer and actually the latest.
>
> v2012.12
> http://dominion.thruhere.net/koen/angstrom/minnow/Angstrom-development-GNOME-image-eglibc-ipk-v2012.12-minnow-2013.09.10.hddimg.xz
> <http://dominion.thruhere.net/koen/angstrom/minnow/Angstrom-development-GNOME-image-eglibc-ipk-v2012.12-minnow-2013.09.10.hddimg.xz>
>
> v2013.06
> http://dominion.thruhere.net/koen/angstrom/minnow/Angstrom-development-GNOME-image-eglibc-ipk-v2013.06-minnow-2013.09.10.hddimg.xz
> <http://dominion.thruhere.net/koen/angstrom/minnow/Angstrom-development-GNOME-image-eglibc-ipk-v2013.06-minnow-2013.09.10.hddimg.xz>
>
> Koen posted a message here with the relevant links titled "New SD
> card images for minnow, please test"
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/minnowboard/angstrom/minnowboard/vCAGbw81N0Q/wI6jUSD-wFYJ
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/minnowboard/angstrom/minnowboard/vCAGbw81N0Q/wI6jUSD-wFYJ>
>
> Bryan
>
> On Thursday, October 17, 2013 2:15:50 PM UTC-4, JB Williams wrote:
>
> Hello. I am attempting to load the latest production image

> (*production-Angstrom-development-GNOME-image-eglibc-ipk-v2012.12-minnow-2013.07.10.img*)

> onto and SSD and boot this on the minnow.
>
> I have tried dd'ing the image to the SSD and then editing the
> grub.conf:
>

> *menuentry 'boot'{*
> *linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro rootwait quiet
> console=ttyPCH0,115200 console=tty0 vmalloc=256MB
> snd-hda-intel.enable_msi=0 *
> *}*

>
> This gets me to the grub prompt starts to boot and then the
> system just hangs.
>
> Is anyone able to tell me what I may be doing wrong, what I
> should try or just has plain instructions on how to accomplish this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -JBw
>

--
Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
Intel Open Source Technology Center

[Koen Kooi]

Op 18 okt. 2013, om 08:08 heeft Bryan Smith <bryans...@gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:

> Hey JB,
>
> You have the wrong image buddy, it's the kernel actually. Being that everything is primarily builtin there isn't a ramdisk there so the rootfs needs to be on mmc. No modules for your sata disk are there.

Both SATA and MMC drivers are built in, just run the mkefi.sh and point it to your SSD. Having said that, not all uEFI firmwares are created equal, I know booting from SATA "just worked" 3 months ago, but I haven't tried it with the latest uEFI.

regards,

Koen

[Hart, Darren]

I've been booting over SATA/SSD on the latest firmware for last few
weeks without issue.

--
Darren

[Jayneil Dalal]

The steps for installing Angstrom on a HDD have been documented below on the MinnowBoard elinux wiki:

http://elinux.org/Installing_Angstrom_on_a_Hard_Disk