Re: second-stage bootloader for Thecus N2100?

2009-01-31 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Loïc Minier wrote: Not sure what you mean here; if your kernel panics, it just sits here and doesn't give back control to the boot loader or previous kernel AFAIK; I don't know whether you can get control back in the kexec case, but I suspect not in all cases. Hence the ne

Re: second-stage bootloader for Thecus N2100?

2009-01-31 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009, Paul Jakma wrote: > - have a fallback option (though, this would require modifying some > state shared between loader and booted environment which, ideally, > would be in NVRAM - is that possible with redboot?) Not sure what you mean here; if your kernel panics, it just

Re: Instructions for building iceweasel for arm?

2009-01-31 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:34:32PM +0800, John wrote: >You may try to compile it in scratchbox. >But Iceweasel (Debian Firefox) still segfaults under Debian Sid Arm EABI It works for me and others... If it does segfault, we'd like to know about it. >port,See [1]http://flickr.com/photo

Re: second-stage bootloader for Thecus N2100?

2009-01-31 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 31.01.2009, 16:12 + schrieb Paul Jakma: > One thing though, there seems to be no kexec-tools package available > - is kexec not supported on ARM? That'd be a problem.. > seems its just not being built: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=489175 ciao o

Re: second-stage bootloader for Thecus N2100?

2009-01-31 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 31.01.2009, 16:12 + schrieb Paul Jakma: > > though the problem might be size here, you would probably need to > > strip the defaults a bit to get an initramfs that matches the usual > > size constraints you have on MTD devices ... (an initramfs of the > > current ubuntu v

Re: second-stage bootloader for Thecus N2100?

2009-01-31 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Oliver Grawert wrote: i think michaels inital drive was bling with a cool gui :) Aha. Not one of my goals :) though the problem might be size here, you would probably need to strip the defaults a bit to get an initramfs that matches the usual size constraints you have o

Re: Instructions for building iceweasel for arm?

2009-01-31 Thread John
You may try to compile it in scratchbox. But Iceweasel (Debian Firefox) still segfaults under Debian Sid Arm EABI port,See http://flickr.com/photos/qole2/2291554485/ On 五, 2009-01-30 at 08:42 -0800, Weidong Li wrote: > Hi, > > > > Does anyone have instructions for building iceweasel with a cros

Re: second-stage bootloader for Thecus N2100?

2009-01-31 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Samstag, den 31.01.2009, 13:25 + schrieb Paul Jakma: ... > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-January/027229.html > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/ARMSoftbootLoader > > Why build a new environment? Why not use the standard Debian initram? > What modifications are ne

Re: second-stage bootloader for Thecus N2100?

2009-01-31 Thread Paul Jakma
(PS: Obviously I meant "the 1st one" in my original mail and the followup-incorrection). On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Loïc Minier wrote: There are many solutions to the first part, perhaps our preferred is when the bootloader is clever enough to e.g. boot from USB or SD card first, or even clever eno

Re: second-stage bootloader for Thecus N2100?

2009-01-31 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Paul Jakma wrote: Possible methods: - APEX support for N2100 (??) (as a 2nd stage) - A small, static Linux env in flash to act as bootloader via kexec ? (suggested by suihkulokki on #debian-arm) - custom N2100 bootloader - ? The 2nd one seems the easiest to hack together

Re: Re: second-stage bootloader for Thecus N2100?

2009-01-31 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, as loic pointed out, i wrote a little (very ugly yet ... dont look to deep at the sed commands, its really just a proof of concept weekend hackery) script that can parse a file and display a menu on a framebuffer or serial console ... the script is based on the assumption that you have an abs

Re: second-stage bootloader for Thecus N2100?

2009-01-31 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009, Paul Jakma wrote: > What would be the best way to have some kind of support for retaining > old kernel/initrds and booting those? (And is anyone working on this?) We were looking into this in Ubuntu; actually the general problem was recovering from a breakage after a kern