[Freedombox-discuss] Freedom-maker build questions

[Nick Hardiman]

I will have a look at this later. 

My first guess (wild speculation) is the uImage isn't where you expect it to be (usb 2). For instance, maybe it's in /boot/uImage instead of /uImage. 

Since you have a module and can use the console, you can find the uImage file using u-boot commands like usb start, usb info and fatls. 

Just wondering - 
Why do we still use fatload on new Dreamplugs? The SolidRun CuBox people use ext2load (http://www.solid-run.com/mw/index.php/Setup_USB_boot).Couldn't you have one great big ext2 partition then, instead of one little FAT partition and one ext2 partition?


Nick Hardiman
nick at internetmachines.co.uk
@intmachines



On 16 Feb 2013, at 19:46, dww <dworthem at msn.com> wrote:

> Nick
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
>> When did you last update your repository?  The 3 -> 4 bug was fixed
>> months ago.
> 
> I obtained from git clone https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker.git about 2 or 3 weeks ago.
> 
>> >
>> > What did I need to do to not get the "signatures couldn't be verified"
>> > error? I doubt setting noauth=true is the best thing to do.
>> 
>> I just let it fail and then restarted the build, as that always seems to
>> work for me.  Never really looked into why.  I assume there's some sort
>> of timing bug WRT signature validation that causes it to fail once.
> 
> That did not work, I had to set "noauth=true" in fbx-base.conf. I am using the alpha of gNewSense 3.0 which is based on Debian Squeeze. Does this problem have something to do with the mix of Squeeze and Wheezy.  Anyway I think this is of interest to fix as many users may not want or be able to always update to a different version of Debian at least not in the short therm.
> 
> 
>> > Is this where the newer U-Boot version is needed? My DreamPlug has
>> > U-Boot version 2011.  6(Oct 15, 2011-02:02:08) as from Global Scale
>> > Technologies.
>> 
>> Yup, that's where we need the new uboot version.  Any pre-0.1 release
>> should work on the GlobalScale uboot, but anything after needs the newer
>> uboot.
> 
> I updated U-Boot to 2012-04-01 and did a setenv for the boot args as directed in the freedom box README file.
> 
> But I get an error that it U-Boot cannot find a kernel image ( I show printenv output first). Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Marvell>> printenv
> baudrate=115200
> bootargs=console=ttyS0, 115200 root=/dev/sda2 rootdelay=10
> bootcmd=${x_bootcmd_usb}; ${x_bootcmd_kernel}; ${x_bootcmd_initrd}; setenv bootargs ${x_bootargs} ${x_bootargs_root}; bootm   0x6400000 0x6900000;
> bootdelay=3
> ethact=egiga0
> filesize=2FDEC
> stderr=serial
> stdin=serial
> stdout=serial
> x_bootargs=console=ttyS0, 115200
> x_bootargs_root=root=/dev/sda2 rootdelay=10
> x_bootcmd=root=/dev/sda2 rootdelay=10
> x_bootcmd_ethernet=ping 192.168.2.1
> x_bootcmd_initrd=fatload usb 2 0x6900000 uInitrd
> x_bootcmd_kernel=fatload usb 2 0x6400000 uImage
> x_bootcmd_root=root=/dev/sda2 rootdelay=10
> x_bootcmd_usb=usb start
> 
> Environment size: 652/4092 bytes
> Marvell>> boot
> (Re)start USB...
> USB:   Register 10011 NbrPorts 1
> USB EHCI 1.00
> scanning bus for devices... 6 USB Device(s) found
>        scanning bus for storage devices... Device NOT ready
>    Request Sense returned 02 3A 00
> 2 Storage Device(s) found
> 
> ** Invalid boot device **
> 
> ** Invalid boot device **
> Wrong Image Format for bootm command
> ERROR: can't get kernel image!
> 
> Dennis
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Freedombox-discuss mailing list
> Freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/attachments/20130218/b45566ef/attachment.html>