Re: Debian installer for GuruPlug
Hi Martin,
thanks for your post and your work.
You asked me to give feedback on this Mailinglist. I hope it works.
I just tried your new instructions and here is my feedback:
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_My Setup_
Installing Debian on the mSD Card of a GuruPlug Plus.
Loading the installer from a USB drive.
Using the u-boot from plugcomputer.org
(http://www.plugcomputer.org/index.php/us/resources/downloads?func=select&id=15)
worked to boot the installer from usb drive.
Date of the installer files I used are:
uImage 08-Jun-2010 11:05 1.4M
uInitrd 08-Jun-2010 11:06 2.5M
_Loading the Installer_
Env setup works as you describes it, but I had to make changes on the
usb load command.
On the guruplug the mSD card is device 0 and a usb disk will be device
1, so the correct commands for me were:
fatload usb 1:1 0x01100000 /uInitrd
fatload usb 1:1 0x00800000 /uImage
Repository worked as you described it.
What command would be required to install squeeze with the special kernel?
_Installation_
I formated my mSD Card as:
#1 primary 98.6 MB f ext2 /boot
#2 primary 15.8 GB f ext4 /
Both with noatime mount option to conserve the mSD card.
I didn't use a swap partition.
The installation process looks good, no errors and it finished with the reboot.
_Booting the Installation_
This part was not successful. The uboot-version I downloaded from
plugcomputer doesn't know the command ext2load.
I flashed the other uboot you mentioned from Clint Adams but the same again:
Marvell>> ext2load
Unknown command 'ext2load' - try 'help'
Marvell>> help
[...]
echo - echo args to console
editenv - edit environment variable
fatinfo - print information about filesystem
fatload - load binary file from a dos filesystem
fatls - list files in a directory (default /)
Marvell>> version
U-Boot 2010.03-01266-g42f7128 (May 23 2010 - 19:25:42)
Marvell-GuruPlug
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Maybe some option would be to store the kernel in the nand as described here:
http://bzed.de/posts/2010/05/installing_debian_on_the_guruplug_server_plus/
Or to use fat for /boot/.
But on the long run we should get a uboot which supports ext2load :)
Kind regards
Kevin Zuber
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