Difference between revisions of "Setting up an SD card to boot from"
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| − | This is the complete, accurate guide to getting a TS-7260 to boot debian etch with a nice large | + | This is the complete, accurate guide to getting a TS-7260 to boot debian etch with a nice large root |
| − | Get a 512mb image from technologic, such as 512mbsd-7400-linux26-etch-oabi.dd. | + | Get a 512mb image from technologic, such as 512mbsd-7400-linux26-etch-oabi.dd. ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7400-linux/binaries/ts-images/ has these images. |
| − | dd it to disk: | + | dd it to disk: |
| + | dd if=512mbsd-7400-linux26-etch-oabi.dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 | ||
Eject the disk, and re-insert it. If your computer automounts it, umount it. This is to make sure the partition table we're looking at is sane. | Eject the disk, and re-insert it. If your computer automounts it, umount it. This is to make sure the partition table we're looking at is sane. | ||
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Enter <code>ln -sf /linuxrc-sdroot /linuxrc; save</code> to make the arm board boot into the full environment on the sdcard. | Enter <code>ln -sf /linuxrc-sdroot /linuxrc; save</code> to make the arm board boot into the full environment on the sdcard. | ||
| − | + | <code>reboot</code> the arm board. | |
log in as root | log in as root | ||
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set up /etc/network/interfaces: | set up /etc/network/interfaces: | ||
| − | + | auto lo | |
| − | auto lo | + | iface lo inet loopback |
| − | iface lo inet loopback | + | |
| − | + | auto eth0 | |
| − | auto eth0 | + | iface eth0 inet static |
| − | iface eth0 inet static | + | address 132.177.88.xxx |
| − | + | netmask 255.255.252.0 | |
| − | + | gateway 132.177.88.1 | |
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set up /etc/resolv.conf: | set up /etc/resolv.conf: | ||
| − | + | nameserver 132.177.88.52 | |
| − | nameserver 132.177.88.52 | ||
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run <code>/etc/init.d/networking restart</code> | run <code>/etc/init.d/networking restart</code> | ||
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run <code>/etc/init.d/ssh restart</code> | run <code>/etc/init.d/ssh restart</code> | ||
disable weird services from starting and shut them off, like apache and x: | disable weird services from starting and shut them off, like apache and x: | ||
| − | + | update-rc.d -f apache2 remove | |
| − | update-rc.d -f apache2 remove | + | update-rc.d -f startx remove |
| − | update-rc.d -f startx remove | + | update-rc.d -f x11-common remove |
| − | update-rc.d -f x11-common remove | ||
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| − | lenny | + | Their lenny image seems to have serious issues with devpts. As a workaround, you can "mount -v -t devpts none /dev/pts" to be able to SSH and other fun stuff. |
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Latest revision as of 08:51, 8 September 2009
This is the complete, accurate guide to getting a TS-7260 to boot debian etch with a nice large root
Get a 512mb image from technologic, such as 512mbsd-7400-linux26-etch-oabi.dd. ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7400-linux/binaries/ts-images/ has these images.
dd it to disk:
dd if=512mbsd-7400-linux26-etch-oabi.dd of=/dev/mmcblk0
Eject the disk, and re-insert it. If your computer automounts it, umount it. This is to make sure the partition table we're looking at is sane.
With devio, mtd-utils, and jfsutils installed (these may be different for non-ubuntu systems), fire up gparted and resize the partition, click-and-drag style. Uncheck "round to cylinders". If it fails the first time, fsck it, it'll probably be clean, and just try to resize again, it'll work. We use gparted for this because it's the cleanest, easiest way to handle the nonstandard geometry while still making sure that the filesystem is not destroyed.
Boot it on the arm board
Enter ln -sf /linuxrc-sdroot /linuxrc; save to make the arm board boot into the full environment on the sdcard.
reboot the arm board.
log in as root
set a password
set up /etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 132.177.88.xxx netmask 255.255.252.0 gateway 132.177.88.1
set up /etc/resolv.conf:
nameserver 132.177.88.52
run /etc/init.d/networking restart
run /etc/init.d/ssh restart
disable weird services from starting and shut them off, like apache and x:
update-rc.d -f apache2 remove update-rc.d -f startx remove update-rc.d -f x11-common remove
Their lenny image seems to have serious issues with devpts. As a workaround, you can "mount -v -t devpts none /dev/pts" to be able to SSH and other fun stuff.
