Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Phil Endecott wrote: > Any ideas what might be going on? Probably some sort of race condition, possibly caused by incorrect or missing dependency information in the init scripts on your system. The insserv maintainers should be able to help you debug it. -- bye,

Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-16 Thread Phil Endecott
Phil Endecott wrote: > I have got as far as a login prompt, about twice. But > normally the boot process seems to stop at some random point, > maybe when "Activating swapfile" or "Cleaning up temporary > files". Sometimes it pauses for a bit, then makes some more > progress, then stops more p

Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-16 Thread Phil Endecott
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl.net> writes: > ... oh.. phil? traco power supplies they're shit-for-brains if > the power draw is erratic in any way. they go AWOL, and can spike > well above the rated 5V. [citation required] Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.

Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-15 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
... oh.. phil? traco power supplies they're shit-for-brains if the power draw is erratic in any way. they go AWOL, and can spike well above the rated 5V. if however you're not doing anything weird down-stream, i.e. the power's clean, then you should be fine with the traco. if you're really

Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-15 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Phil Endecott wrote: > Phil Endecott chezphil.org> writes: >> My "Arndale" board finally arrived recently and I have been trying >> to get it to do something useful. > > If anyone is curious, I have put a photo and some notes about the hardware > here: > > http:/

Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-15 Thread Phil Endecott
Phil Endecott chezphil.org> writes: > My "Arndale" board finally arrived recently and I have been trying > to get it to do something useful. If anyone is curious, I have put a photo and some notes about the hardware here: http://chezphil.org/india/index.html ("india" is the hostname; I'm going

Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-15 Thread Phil Endecott
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: Phil Endecott wrote: My "Arndale" board finally arrived recently and I have been trying to get it to do something useful. should I be able to use this Linaro Ubuntu kernel (and their U-Boot) to boot a Debian armhf system? you mean this? https://wiki.lina

Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-15 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Phil Endecott < spam_from_debian_...@chezphil.org> wrote: > Thanks. The difference is that you've debootstrapped from Android, while > I've debootstrapped from Ubuntu - which surely ought to be easier, being > less "foreign". > > well, what i actually did was a

Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-15 Thread Phil Endecott
Sander wrote: Phil Endecott wrote (ao): This has worked, and I have got as far as a login prompt, about twice. But normally the boot process seems to stop at some random point, maybe when "Activating swapfile" or "Cleaning up temporary files". Sometimes it pauses for a bit, then makes some mor

Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-15 Thread Sander
Hello Phil, Phil Endecott wrote (ao): > It ships with Android in its eMMC and that seems to work OK. It can also > boot from a micro-SD card and I've successfully booted the Ubuntu image from > here: https://wiki.linaro.org/Boards/Arndale/Setup/EnterpriseUbuntuServer . > In U-Boot: > - Changing

Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-14 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Phil Endecott wrote: > > Dear All, > > My "Arndale" board finally arrived recently and I have been trying to get it > to do something useful. woo! > But the fact that I got no SATA problems while debootstrapping makes me > think that that is not the problem. So

Booting Debian on my Arndale board

2013-04-14 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear All, My "Arndale" board finally arrived recently and I have been trying to get it to do something useful. It ships with Android in its eMMC and that seems to work OK. It can also boot from a micro-SD card and I've successfully booted the Ubuntu image from here: https://wiki.linaro.org/Board