Re: [ts-7000] TS-7800 Running Debian etch on this board?

[Ronald Gomes <>]

Hello,
 
 The debian-etch-eabi-armel file we have available is a test distribution using EABI binaries (future debian port called armel). Therefore, many debian applications will not be available through apt-get.
 
 For those interested in etch (non-eabi binaries), we just released a PRELIMINARY version at:
 
 ftp://oz.embeddedarm.com/ts-7800-linux-sd/distributions/debian-etch-oldabi-jan222008.tar.gz
 
 This distribution should be good for both TS-72xx (running 2.6) and TS-7800.
 
 Regards,
 Ronald.
 

Arthur Bebak <> escreveu:

Has anybody had any success running Debian Etch on the TS-7800?

There appears to be an etch distribution here:

ftp://oz.embeddedarm.com/ts-7800-linux-sd/distributions/debian-etch-eabi-armel-512MB-oct042007.tar.gz

However, I have had no luck getting it to boot from an SD card.
I created an SD card with 4 partitions, first one with sd-mbr.dd,
the second one with ts-7800-kernel.dd, and the fourth one with
debian-etch-eabi-armel-512MB-oct042007.tar.gz untarred on it.

Then I did the obvious thing, plugged the card in and switched
the boot script to linuxrc-sdroot. This works just fine with
the Sarge distribution in debian-sarge-udev-512MB-oct092007.tar.gz,
but with Etch there are issues.

The first obstacle is that the final line in linuxrc-sdroot
causes problems:

export CONSOLE=/dev/ttyS0
... bunch of script ...
exec ./usr/sbin/chroot . ./sbin/init < .$CONSOLE > .$CONSOLE 2>&1

Apparently you get an error because the etch distribution tarball does not
have /dev/ttyS0 defined. This causes an error message about missing /dev/ttyS0
at that line.

I have tried to create the ttyS0 device before invoking ./sbin/init
with this command:

exec ./usr/sbin/chroot . ./bin/sh -c "cd ./dev; ./MAKEDEV ttyS0"

but no luck, and the whole thing just hangs. Even just skipping the console
and changing the last line in linuxrc-sdroot to this has no effect:

exec ./usr/sbin/chroot . ./sbin/init

So bottom line, has anybody managed to get Debian etch working
on TS-7800 from an SD card? I really would like to get some reasonably
up-to-date code running on this thing.

Thanks,
--
Arthur Bebak
com

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