I tried to compile without enabling swap, on a different computer,
downloaded on a different network, using a different distribution then
Debian to compile the kernel, etc... but no matter what I try I just
can not seem to get it to work. Any suggestions?
Bifferboard needs a 32-bit kernel - are you trying to compile on a
64-bit machine? (I made this mistake myself at first)
If you are, the easiest way round it is to setup a 32-bit linux
install inside a VirtualBox VM and compile the kernel inside that.
Lurch
Will keep folks updated :-)
Kyle
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Or, perish the thought, you could just use Slackware...
Biff.
On Apr 13, 9:40 pm, Nelson Neves <nelson.s.ne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Kyle Gordon <k...@lodge.glasgownet.com>wrote:
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>
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> > On 13/04/10 14:23, Andrew Scheller wrote:
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> >> I tried to compile without enabling swap, on a different computer,
> >>> downloaded on a different network, using a different distribution then
> >>> Debian to compile the kernel, etc... but no matter what I try I just
> >>> can not seem to get it to work. Any suggestions?
>
> >> Bifferboard needs a 32-bit kernel - are you trying to compile on a
> >> 64-bit machine? (I made this mistake myself at first)
> >> If you are, the easiest way round it is to setup a 32-bit linux
> >> install inside a VirtualBox VM and compile the kernel inside that.
>
> >> Lurch
>
> > I encountered exactly the same problem when trying to obtain swap support.
> > It would compile just great, flash fine, but would stall immediately after
> > the bootloader. I compiled on Ubuntu x86, but will be trying Debian x32 in a
> > VM this evening. Not sure if it'll work. It might have been something as
> > daft as a libc problem or somesuch.
>
> > Will keep folks updated :-)
>
> > Kyle
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This is very weird, for me enabling swap or keeping it disabled did
not make any difference, still not booting even with swap disabled.
Any contribution is appreciated, especially if it leads to resolving
the boot issue.
Stu
Then I found a different Debian "distro" for bifferboard: the one from Graham Marshal (sunspot):
http://www.sunspot.co.uk/Projects/Bifferboard/Debian_distro.html
I flashed the bifferboard with vmlinuz-2.6.32 from that distro and copied only the lib/modules/2.6.32-... files from its rootfs in my usb disk (maintaining my previous and almost-working debian files). Just a kernel upgrade.
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As for the Slackware distro, I tried it and found it was missing just
about every package I required, and slapt-get was awful. Short of
compiling everything from scratch in a virtual machine, I opted to use a
distro that I had plenty of experience of :)
Kyle
Attempts to flash the original back on over ethernet were met with
'IOError: Error 2 writing data at 0', and I had success only with
bb_upload8.py instead.
I think I'll give Sunspots kernel and module tree a shot instead :-)
Kyle
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The only problem that bothers me is the inability to read from rs232
using a web page - the same procedure worked fine in my OpenWrt
version.
The scripts must be executed on a Debian "lenny" system.