On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 03:46:13PM +0100, Marek Šimon wrote: > I have got a specific box - vendor is LXE, box model is MX3, procesor > should be a XSCALE PXA255 400 MHz. Vendor's system is Windows CE. I want > to install some linux to this machine. There is no CDROM, no network > booting, no floppy, only removable CF memory. So I think I must remove > it, attach to a PC, prepare the system including the bootmanager to the > CF, return the CF to the box and try to boot. I am experienced linux > user, but I never work with non PC architecture and never install linux > some other way than install CDs or debootstrap to a virtual machine. > Google leads me to many information, but there is a jungle of them - > toolchains, installation manuals for similar architectures, many ARM > subclasses, firmware updates (do I need or not?), openembeded (which > seems to be just a framework and debian maybe have some things ready), > emdebian (which seems a bit dead) and finaly, it seems nobody tried to > do it before me on this exact HW. I don't know, where to start. Could > somebody point at some good howto for cross installation to a CF?
Most likely there is a bootloader in rom or flash on the board and not on the CF card. So it could be VERY tricky to get it to boot something else unless you have a serial console to the boot loader and can fiddle with it. Then you need a kernel for that specific board you can boot. After that a standard debian arm system should probabyl work well. -- Len Sorensen -- 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/20101124183038.gl12...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
