[Freedombox-discuss] Booting Guruplug with self-built image

[Markus Sabadello]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Nick M. Daly <nick.m.daly at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:30:58 +0400, Markus Sabadello <
> markus.sabadello at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So with a recent and clean Debian Wheezy, I was able to run freedom-maker
> > (latest version from Nick's repository), however I still had a few
> issues..
> >
> > Running freedom-maker under Debian Squeeze didn't work at all for me,
> lots
> > of errors, only Wheezy worked.
>
> Odd, I build it on a Squeeze system.
>
> > Glad to see the projects-chroot.sh reference in bin/finalize was changed
> to
> > projects-chroot, that had also confused me in the past :)
> >
> > I still had to manually copy the kernel/uInitrd file to /boot, I don't
> know
> > why freedom-maker doesn't copy it.
>
> That's fixed, sorry.


Now looking into the Makefile, it seems to be fixed for the microSd target,
but not for the (very similar) dreamstick target. The following line
appears in the former but not the latter:
        cp kernel/* $(BOOTPOINT)/



> > I WAS finally able to boot my Guruplug with the self-built image on a USB
> > stick:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > However I am still not sure if the image built correctly after all, e.g.
> I
> > got the following when trying to start Plinth:
> >
> > $ ./plinth.py
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "./plinth.py", line 6, in <module>
> >     import cfg
> > ImportError: No module named cfg
> >
> > Which makes me wonder if my self-built image is okay, or if something
> went
> > wrong.
> >
> > Is Plinth supposed to start automatically when the FreedomBox boots, or
> do
> > you have to start it manually?
>
> For now, you still need to ``make`` it, first.  I think that's in
> Plinth's README.  I've been meaning to make it do that while building
> the image, but haven't had a chance.  You can look in the
> freedom-maker/projects and freedom-maker/projects-chroot files if you're
> inspired.
>
> Nick
>
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