On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:46:52AM -0700, augsiva wrote: > Is this thread alive , if so can you help in porting debian in IMX31, we > have a board running linux in it with minimal package , but we need to > install some debian packages supporting arm platform.So, we planned to port > debian in it. Can i use the same bootloader for the debian also and can you > explain in detail about how to develop debootstrap to generate a new > rootfilesystem with debian in our IMX31 platform. please point me in correct > direction to proceed.
Use whatever bootloader the system has. You should be able to use debootstrap on the system, as long as you can get a few binaries onto the system that it needs (I think wget and a couple of others are needed, and probably perl). One method would be to create the base of the chroot using a debian system (like your PC) and do: debootstrap --verbose --arch armel --foreign sid /mnt/targetdrive/newroot http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian Then boot the system on an arm, and use chroot to finish the setup chroot /newroot /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage There are lots of ways to use debootstrap, either running it all on the target, or running part on a different host, and just the second stage on the target. It might even be possible to run the second stage in qemu and have a completely ready rootfs to mount from whatever kernel you already have for the system. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
