Re: sheeveplug u-boot environment

2016-01-05 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2016-01-05, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jan 5, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> Well, I would like to know if the newer versions in Debian are or aren't >> working, if you'd be willing to try. They do still build in 2016.01~rc3, >> so newer versions probably have converted over to gen

Re: sheeveplug u-boot environment

2016-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 5, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2016-01-05, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Jan 5, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> The only thing I see that looks like a warning is a mention of it not >>> using “generic board”. >> >> It turns out that this may, in fact, be releva

Re: question -- does this look right to you?

2016-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Two observations — Not sure what they mean, but they are at least data points: 1) Looking at the system logs of the boot process, there does not seem to be any errors related to this. Here is the relevant part of the output of “journalctl -b” — along with a bit of context on either side… > Jan

Re: XZ compression for the initramfs

2016-01-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Roger Shimizu [2016-01-06 01:01]: > I suggest it's better to inform the following in NEWS: The note I was going to add to release-notes would be QNAP specific (not Orion) since they only have 4 MB flash for the ramdisk. But if initramfs-tools implements the "auto" option Ben mentioned, this wo

sheeveplug u-boot environment

2016-01-05 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2016-01-05, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jan 5, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> The only thing I see that looks like a warning is a mention of it not >> using “generic board”. > > It turns out that this may, in fact, be relevant. Googling for > “README.generic-board” gives > > https://

Re: question -- does this look right to you?

2016-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 5, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > The only thing I see that looks like a warning is a mention of it not using > “generic board”. It turns out that this may, in fact, be relevant. Googling for “README.generic-board” gives https://github.com/dsd/u-boot/blob/master/doc/READ

Re: question -- does this look right to you?

2016-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 5, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2016-01-05, Rick Thomas wrote: >> When running Debian (Sid, in this case) and I do “fw_printenv” it >> gives an error message about a bad CRC and using default environment … > When you boot, does u-boot print a warning about using th

Re: question -- does this look right to you?

2016-01-05 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2016-01-05, Rick Thomas wrote: > When running Debian (Sid, in this case) and I do “fw_printenv” it > gives an error message about a bad CRC and using default environment… > >> rbthomas@sheeva:~$ sudo fw_printenv >> Warning: Bad CRC, using default environment >> bootargs= >> bootcmd= ... > This i

Re: XZ compression for the initramfs

2016-01-05 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:58 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > It goes from about 1 minute to 2 minutes and 20 seconds (without running > flash-kernel) which is a huge increase percentage wise but a minute more > is imho not a big deal, especially if it means avoiding troubles because > the ramdisk doe

question -- does this look right to you?

2016-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Martin, My SheevaPlug is showing something I think is strange, and I wondered if you knew what might make it do this: When running Debian (Sid, in this case) and I do “fw_printenv” it gives an error message about a bad CRC and using default environment… > rbthomas@sheeva:~$ sudo fw_printenv