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Re: [ts-7000] Re: Debian Lenny Armel EABI on TS-7390

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: Debian Lenny Armel EABI on TS-7390
From: "Theodore A. Roth" <>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:18:48 -0700
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Dunge2<> wrote:
> --- In  "Theodore A. Roth" <> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Finally, on this mailing list I found this guide link:
>> > http://ted.openavr.org/Lenny-on-ts7390/
>> > It seems nice, but I wonder why he goes trough the trouble of 
>> > debootstrapping when TS offer a debian-eabi already packaged 
>> > (debian-lenny-eabi-armel-512mb-apr092009.tar.gz).
>> >
>>
>> Two reasons:
>>
>> 1. TS did not supply the eabi version when I went through all of that.
>> 2. The TS image contained way more packages than I wanted. I would
>> rather start with a minimal image and add only those things needed,
>> than start with too much stuff and try to figure out what is not
>> needed and remove the extras.
>>
>> Ted Roth
>>
>
> Hi Ted!
> I don't care about having lot of stuff pre-installed, SDCARD space is large 
> enough. Maybe background process should be minimized but I doubt it's a 
> problem.
>
> Still, that doesn't explain why my card don't boot. If I check your guide, 
> you use the same partition model as I do, as well as the same 
> (mr/kernel/initrd). I was thinking my kernel/initrd had to be changed but I 
> guess not.

I don't know what is wrong. I've had the same problem in the past, but
can't remember what the solution was. I also remember banging head
against the wall for a few days until I figured out that the SD card I
was using was bad.

>
> I guess the TS eabi package already have modules and other things 
> pre-installed too, so what's missing in my setup to boot? Your 
> linuxrc-sdroot-lenny-install seems specialized because it's a debootstrap, 
> not becuase it's lenny.
>
> I managed to re-compile the kernel with EABI support, but I don't even know 
> how to send it to partition2 of the card, and if the ts-provided kernel 
> support eabi it's no use.

Use dd like in step 10 of my notes? You might need to change the
output file dev though.

Did you read the this?

  ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7390-linux/binaries/ts-images/README

One thing I have found to be very useful is to compile a stock TS
kernel, but add "console=ttyAM0,115200 debug" to the CONFIG_CMDLINE of
the kernel config. This dump a lot more information to the serial port
that made it much easier to see what was causing the boot to fail.

Ted


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