> After finish all the study i installed emdebian-tools in my debian
> host (which is a chroot debian in ubuntu system as i come across it
> will support in that only in one of your doc), then ran emsetup to
> update the source.list and emchain ended with some error in binutils
> for armel
You shouldn't need emchain for armel if your Debian chroot is set up
correctly. The problem is that Ubuntu just doesn't work well with
Emdebian and using a chroot can make things a bit more difficult.
If you want armel, persist with emsetup until it can locate the existing
armel toolchains. You didn't say why it failed so I can't say how you
need to fix the Debian chroot.
after running emsetup successfully, it finishes like saying "Setup appears OK for Emdebian. Nothing to do". But i dont know where the toolchain have been installed and how i will make use of it to build our own filesystem.
> ( then i concluded that armel support is still not in
> emdebian)
There are no pre-built packages for armel at this time, correct.
However, armel toolchains do exist and the current Emdebian packages
can be built for armel. Emdebian does support armel.
> .so, i just want to creat a minimal base filesystem for arm
> with help of emsandbox, i still in the vague whether going in the
> right direction. But when i try to run the ./emsanbox in target its
> giving me some error
What error? Be precise.
Why are you trying to run emsandbox from a local directory?
Ensure that the emdebian-rootfs package is installed inside the Debian
chroot and run emsandbox from there.
emsandbox does not run ./emsecondstage itself, it prepares the root
filesystem tarball and copies emsecondstage into it. You are using a
chroot inside a chroot to create a chroot inside a different
chroot. ;-) (It's probably easier to have a box that runs Debian
natively - Ubuntu complicates things unnecessarily, which is why I
asked for emdebian-tools to be removed from Ubuntu.)
The Debian chroot runs emsandbox to create the root filesystem. You
copy that root filesystem out of the Debian chroot and onto the storage
of the target board. Then you run ./emsecondstage to configure the
installed root filesystem.
you totally misunderstood here, we have created that root filesystem (emdebian.tar.gz) in our chroot debian and then while we ran it in our arm target only we getting that error
1# ./emsecondstage
./emsecondstage: line 97: 1676 Illegal instruction chroot $TARGET mount proc -t proc /proc
Setting approximate time of 111607522008
./emsecondstage: line 97: 1678 Illegal instruction chroot $TARGET date -s $TIME
Running ldconfig in /home/emdebian ...
./emsecondstage: line 97: 1679 Segmentation fault chroot $TARGET /sbin/ldconfig
The Debian chroot is only needed to cross-build new packages (e.g. for
armel) and to prepare the root filesystem tarball - that's it.
Everything about installing the root filesystem (including
running ./emsecondstage) happens outside the Debian chroot, using your
existing Ubuntu system to do things on the board. The rootfs tarball is
self-contained (apart from the kernel and kernel modules).
> Please Direct me in a right direction to create a minimal root
> filesystem to support the datacard application
1. You do not need a toolchain to use the existing ARM packages.
We are trying to install armel toolchain to build our own packages.Anyway after long struggle we forced to try the emsandbox rootfilessytem for our customized debian base file system. is this possible in emsandbox?
2. You do need a toolchain to create your own packages for armel and
one does exist but Ubuntu makes it hard for emsetup to do things
properly. Your Debian chroot is not 100% complete the moment debootstap
has finished - I have no Ubuntu systems and I cannot advise on how to
fix the remaining problems of running a Debian chroot on Ubuntu as most
are to do with the Ubuntu system underneath. The solution would be to
use a native Debian system.
As i seen so far we didnt face any issue in chroot debian in ubuntu, only the emchain has given me the error of missing armel deb packages.But as you said emsetup only update the source.list and i dont know how to install the armel toolchain with emsetup.Can you show some light in this ?
3. run the emdebian-rootfs scripts directly, not using some local
directory - emsandbox not ./emsandbox
4. run emsandbox to create an ARM root filesystem tarball:
# emsandbox -a arm create
5. Back outside the Debian chroot, from Ubuntu, copy the root
filesystem tarball onto the target board storage.
I cant find anything like emdebian-rootfs executable in the machine
after installing emsandbox. Also as i said earlier we have created that
emsandbox root filesystem tarball and executed in the arm board.
6. From ubuntu, boot the board and connect.
how we will boot the board from ubuntu...we already running a minimal kernel and rootfilesystem which has been given by the board vendor.so, we are booting with their image and then trying the emdebian stuffs in that.
7. Decompress the root filesystem and setup your kernel and kernel
modules.
8. Run ./emsecondstage *on the board* to configure the packages.
this giving that above said error
Do not run ./emsecondstage inside the Debian chroot.
This is why I don't recommend using Ubuntu for Emdebian unless you are
really very familiar with Debian and precisely how Debian differs from
Ubuntu. Whilst I'm confident that emdebian-tools can work within a
Debian chroot, there are unknown issues about exactly how to go from a
bare Debian debootstrap environment to a usable Debian chroot for
Emdebian when not using Debian itself. If these problems can be
identified, I'm open to adding an --ubuntu mode to emsetup that checks
for these changes and either advises how to achieve the change or
possibly implements the change for you. A chroot is not a completely
alien system, it is merely a jail located on top of an existing system
and although processes running inside the chroot cannot affect files
outside the chroot, the configuration of the external system
(kernel, devices, modules etc.) does affect how processes inside the
chroot behave.
Do you have any documentation showing how to build our own filesystem using emdebian armel toolchain or to cross compile a package .that will be helpful to proceed my work hopefully.
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