I'm looking for testers of the Debian installer for the SheevaPlug with eSATA. The "daily images" of the installer now use the 2.6.32-5-kirkwood which has support for the SheevaPlug eSATA. This kernel has not moved to testing yet (although it should do so soon) but we can simply specify an additional repository to install the newer kernel.
If you want to test the Debian installer on a SheevaPlug eSATA, please follow these instructions and send your feedback. 1) Boot loader You will need a boot loader that has support for eSATA. I don't have a SheevaPlug eSATA so I'm not sure what you need exactly. The u-boot mentioned on my web site doesn't have eSATA support. I was told that the uboot-sata-090903.bin binary at http://www.newit.co.uk/u-boot/ does. There's also a uboot-2009-11-08.bin binary now but I'm not sure what this offers. It would be great if someone with a SheevaPlug eSATA could comment on the best version of u-boot to use. In any case, you need to have or upgrade to a version of u-boot with eSATA support. 2) Configure your machine You have to set the right machine ID so the kernel will know that you have a SheevaPlug eSATA: setenv mainlineLinux yes setenv arcNumber 2678 saveenv reset 3) Load the installer You can follow the instrutions from http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.html on how to load the installer. But instead of the images linked on that site, you have to use those from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/armel/images/daily/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/sheevaplug/ Also, starting the installer is slightly different. You have to do it like this: setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 base-installer/initramfs-tools/driver-policy=most apt-setup/local0/repository="http://people.debian.org/~tbm/orion lenny main" apt-setup/local0/key=http://people.debian.org/~tbm/orion/68FD549F bootm 0x00800000 0x01100000 (Note that the first line is _one_ long line) This will load the installer and specify the repository with the newer kernel. 4) Install Perform the installation. After user creation, you'll see that it installs the 2.6.32-5-kirkwood kernel which you need. You'll then get a message titled "Configuring linux-base" about changing to UUIDs. Just say yes here and continue. 5) Make the machine bootable Configure u-boot to boot your machine. In addition to the instructions on my page, here is how to boot from SATA: setenv bootcmd_sata 'ide reset; ext2load ide 0:1 0x01100000 /uInitrd; ext2load ide 0:1 0x00800000 /uImage' setenv bootcmd 'setenv bootargs $(bootargs_console); run bootcmd_sata; bootm 0x00800000 0x01100000' 6) Feedback Please let me know if this works or if you run into any problems. If it works, I'll update my web page accordingly. 7) Thanks Thanks to John Holland for working on SheevaPlug eSATA support. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100608104722.ga9...@jirafa.cyrius.com
