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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Newbie: Creating backup bootable SD card
From: "brucejohnson395" <>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:04:23 -0000
Thanks for this link !
http://oz.embeddedarm.com/~michael/support/faq.html
Are there any more "hidden" FAQ's out there? This one is really
helpful - but I don't see it linked from the main web site (as far as
I can see.)

I also found this thread
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/message/9613 
which I think fills in a lot of gaps as well.
I'm downloading some of the files from the embeddedArm site - I'll
keep you posted with my progress.

I do have the NFS up and working now, so I seem to be making some
progress. 

Cheers
Bruce


--- In  "Jordi Soucheiron" <>
wrote:
>
> I don't know if this will solve all your problems, but it's worth a
try. I
> had to change the sdcard.o original module for the one found in the
ftp (the
> original is about 19k and the updated one 20k).
> Good luck
> 
> 2008/10/21 brucejohnson395 <>
> 
> >   Hi All,
> >
> > This is my first post, so let me introduce myself. I have got a
> > TS-7400 board (with SDK) this week. [I also have the TS-7800 with SDK
> > as well, but I haven't started with that yet.]
> >
> > I must confess I've been quite frustrated by the board so far, but I
> > believe it's due to me flailing around without really making any
> > progress in any direction.
> >
> > My experience with Linux is in the "enough experience to be dangerous"
> > category. I can find my way around ok, follow instructions, even use
> > vi, but the overall "success" rate is quite low.
> >
> > My goal is to copy some C source code onto the board, and from that
> > compile to some programs & libraries. However along the way I'm
> > encountering lots of questions, and not many answers.
> >
> > First off, I'd like to make a backup of the 512Mg SD card that came in
> > the kit. For 2 reasons. (a) I'm hesitant to go too far with the
> > shipping one 'cause sooner or later I'm gonna break it and (b) it
> > seems to be slightly on the small side. (I wanted to install wget for
> > example and it more or less ran out of space.)
> >
> > I have a 2gig SD card. And I have a normal intel Linux box (running
> > Fedora) to work with.
> >
> > Even this relatively simple process has raised a bunch of questions.
> > Any hints or tips on where I'm going wrong would be greatly
appreciated.
> >
> > I followed the instructions on page 25 of the "Linux for ARM on
> > TS-72XX User's Guide" (July 2008 edition).
> >
> > Question 1: the fdisk command stright off the bat looks wrong. The doc
> > says
> > fdisk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
> > which looks wrong, because we're on the big linux box, not the ts7000,
> > I'm thinking it should be
> > fdisk /dev/sda1
> > yes?
> >
> > fdisk, and then mkfs.ext2 seemed to go right. mounting and Tar seemed
> > to go ok. However card failed when put in TS-7400.
> >
> > Back to the Linux PC - and some gathered information.
> > I'm using fdisk -l to see the devices connected to the Linux Pc. So
> > when I plug in the 512M SD card (via SD/USD Thumb drive reader) from
> > Technologic, I see 3 partitions
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/sdb1 1 6 1520 da Non-FS data
> > /dev/sdb2 7 10 1024 da Non-FS data
> > /dev/sdb3 20 953 239104 83 Linux
> >
> > Should I be worried about the first 2 partitions? Are they required to
> > make my backup card work?
> >
> > On my 2 gig card, after following the instructions on page 25,
> > (including the command mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb1 command) I do a fdisk -l
> > and get;
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/sdb1 1 1090 1993604+ 6 FAT16
> >
> > Fat16??? I thought it should be EXT2, or perhaps "Linux"? I've
> > repeated this process a couple times and it comes out the same
every time.
> >
> > Suffice to say the card doesn't boot when I plug it into the TS-7400.
> >
> > While we're on the topic whenever I try and umount the card (umount
> > /mnt)I get a "device busy" message. Why?
> >
> > Any suggestions gratefully received.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Bruce
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jordi Soucheiron
> Software Engineer
> 
> DEXMA
> Riu de l'Or 35, ES-08034, Barcelona
> t:/f: +34 93 280 19 18
> www.dexmatech.com
> 
>



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