Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 8, 2015, at 7:01 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Rick Thomas [2015-06-07 19:39]: >> I’ve attached a screenlog file from “screen -L /dev/ttyUSB0 115200” >> if that’s any help. The VT100-style curses stuff makes it a bit >> hard to interpret… > > From the log it looks like you didn't fin

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Rick Thomas [2015-06-07 19:39]: > I’ve attached a screenlog file from “screen -L /dev/ttyUSB0 115200” > if that’s any help. The VT100-style curses stuff makes it a bit > hard to interpret… >From the log it looks like you didn't finish the installation. These are the last messages in the log:

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Hughes [2015-06-08 08:51]: > >bootcmd=setenv bootargs $(bootargs_console); run bootcmd_mmc; bootm > > 0x0080 0x0110 > > > Replacing "$(bootargs_console)" (cut'n'pasted from > http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install/) with > "${bootargs_console}" works. Thanks,

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 7, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Jun 6, 2015, at 10:55 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > >> * Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez [2015-05-18 13:42]: >>> The relevant part of /var/log/installer/syslog seems to be this: >> ... >>> May 17 15:19:13 base-installer: info: could not determin

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-07 Thread John Hughes
On 07/06/15 14:09, John Hughes wrote: But I get no console output with : bootcmd=setenv bootargs $(bootargs_console); run bootcmd_mmc; bootm 0x0080 0x0110 Replacing "$(bootargs_console)" (cut'n'pasted from http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install/) with "${

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Ian Campbell [2015-06-07 13:55]: > > testvar=$(teststring) > > It looks like the interpolation is not working. > > I think u-boot only expands ${teststring} not $(teststring), so the > instructions have a typo. John, does it work with ${...}? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.co

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 14:09 +0200, John Hughes wrote: > Marvell>> setenv teststring abcdef > Marvell>> setenv testcmd 'setenv testvar $(teststring)' > Marvell>> run testcmd > Marvell>> printenv testvar > testvar=$(teststring) > It looks like the interpolation

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-07 Thread John Hughes
On 07/06/15 12:59, John Hughes wrote: I am of course, stupid. Problem was with cut'n'paste -- everything was working but the boot command was messed up and I had no console output. Maybe not completely my fault? The instructions say: setenv bootargs_console console=ttyS0,115200

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-07 Thread John Hughes
On 07/06/15 12:40, John Hughes wrote: On 06/06/15 19:55, Martin Michlmayr wrote: The installer is fixed now and you can install Debian on the SheevaPlug (and other plug variants) again. I must be stupid because I'm having some trouble with this. I am of course, stupid. Problem was with

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-07 Thread John Hughes
On 06/06/15 19:55, Martin Michlmayr wrote: The installer is fixed now and you can install Debian on the SheevaPlug (and other plug variants) again. I must be stupid because I'm having some trouble with this. When I try booting http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armel/c

Re: Re: Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez [2015-05-18 13:42]: > The relevant part of /var/log/installer/syslog seems to be this: ... > May 17 15:19:13 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour The installer is fixed now and you can install Debian on the SheevaPlug (and other plug variants) again.

Re: Re: Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-06-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Mbayu [2015-05-29 08:35]: > Did you find the cause of the problem with this Jessie installer? Thanks to Rasmus Abrahamsen who gave me remote access to his SheevaPlug, I have identified and fixed the issue today (bug #787563). I believe an update to Debian 8 with a new installer is planned

Re: Re: Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-28 Thread John Mbayu
Hello, Did you find the cause of the problem with this Jessie installer? It is still marked as broken on cyrius.com. >> But now the installer fails in the "Install the base system" step, >> >> saying: "No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources"... >> >> when the last time I tes

Re: Re: Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-18 Thread Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez
>> But now the installer fails in the "Install the base system" step, >> saying: "No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources"... >> when the last time I tested with changed machid and original uImage it >> worked with the same sources. > >What does /var/log/syslog say when this happ

Re: Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez [2015-05-17 16:09]: > But now the installer fails in the "Install the base system" step, > saying: "No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources"... > when the last time I tested with changed machid and original uImage it > worked with the same sources. Wh

Re: Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-17 Thread Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez
>Does this boot? > >This is how I prepare the image: > >wget >http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/device-tree/kirkwood-sheevaplug.dtb >wget >http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/sh

Re: Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-16 Thread Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez
I am not an expert... The workaround just worked, but I don't know whether "0692 Marvell RD-88F6281 Reference Board" is a valid machid for the sheevaplug, instead of the 'original' 0831. At the beggining it worked, but now I have a problem: the sheevaplug ethernet subsystem does not work

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr [2015-05-16 21:37]: > So the best solution now is to append the device tree blob (DTB) to > the kernel in the installer. This way, the kernel will find the > correct device tree and can boot (and everything else will work since > flash-kernel already appends the DTB on the Shee

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Rick Thomas [2015-05-16 17:47]: > > - In u-boot: > > > > setenv machid 0692 > > saveenv This is not the correct solution. The problem is that there are different ways to boot on ARM machines. The old way was for the boot loader to pass a machine ID to the kernel which would tell the kerne

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

2015-05-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 16, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez wrote: > I had the same problem installing Debian 8 'Jessie' on a SheevaPlug. > > I solved it temporarily by doing the following: > > - In u-boot: > > setenv machid 0692 > saveenv > > - Then install normally. The 'make the system bo