Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-22 Thread luke.leighton
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Arnaud Patard wrote: > Ian Campbell writes: > > Hi, > >> On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 18:48 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: >>> > But the obvious answer here is to get support for your device into the >>> > appropriate Debian kernel flavour and then integrated into the stan

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-22 Thread Rtp
Ian Campbell writes: Hi, > On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 18:48 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: >> > But the obvious answer here is to get support for your device into the >> > appropriate Debian kernel flavour and then integrated into the standard >> > d-i images. If there is upstream support then this ough

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-22 Thread luke.leighton
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 18:48 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: >> > But the obvious answer here is to get support for your device into the >> > appropriate Debian kernel flavour and then integrated into the standard >> > d-i images. If there is upstr

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-22 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 18:48 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > > But the obvious answer here is to get support for your device into the > > appropriate Debian kernel flavour and then integrated into the standard > > d-i images. If there is upstream support then this ought to be more or > > less trivial.

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > >> yea... i modified it to add DEBUG_BOOT=3 so that i could get in, >> then followed it through. /init is mounting /proc which then causes >> /sbin/init to fail to mount

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-20 Thread Robert Thomas Hayes Link
> so there's something really odd going on. Any more odd than Canonical branding making its way into the 7.0.0 release? (I think I've still got the screenshot.) Respectfully, rl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > yea... i modified it to add DEBUG_BOOT=3 so that i could get in, > then followed it through. /init is mounting /proc which then causes > /sbin/init to fail to mount /proc. > > so there's something really odd going on. I

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > >> bizarre. ok, so the question is: what's a /init doing in the >> debian-installer initramfs, particularly as they're completely >> different? > > /init is in my desktop i

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > bizarre. ok, so the question is: what's a /init doing in the > debian-installer initramfs, particularly as they're completely > different? /init is in my desktop initramfs too, but not on the rootfs. It looks like a script

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Wookey wrote: > +++ Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2013-05-20 15:22 +0100]: >> but also, this is /sbin/init rather than /init - which one should >> really be executed (as process 1) - both exist. > > /sbin/init exists on a standard debian wheezy (or ubuntu raring)

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-20 Thread Wookey
+++ Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2013-05-20 15:22 +0100]: > but also, this is /sbin/init rather than /init - which one should > really be executed (as process 1) - both exist. /sbin/init exists on a standard debian wheezy (or ubuntu raring) rootfs. /init doesn't. Wookey -- Principal hats:

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 23:54 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> woo! how exciting! and novel. having serial console access to boot log. >> >> Setting up filesystem, please wait ... >> pivot_root: Invalid argument >> <0>Kernel pa

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 23:54 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > woo! how exciting! and novel. having serial console access to boot log. > > Setting up filesystem, please wait ... > pivot_root: Invalid argument > <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0100

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
woo! how exciting! and novel. having serial console access to boot log. Setting up filesystem, please wait ... pivot_root: Invalid argument <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0100 ahh, i am sooo happy to see that. an error message. a real live error message

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Wookey wrote: > +++ luke.leighton [2013-05-19 10:37 +0100]: >> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: >> > >> > Sounds like you want a network-console flavour image, like the ones used >> > for kirkwood, http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread Wookey
+++ luke.leighton [2013-05-19 10:37 +0100]: > On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > Sounds like you want a network-console flavour image, like the ones used > > for kirkwood, http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-41x/install/ > > it does, doesn't it? i've been thi

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread luke.leighton
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > I don't know if the password thing is because ssh just doesn't let you > use no password or if it's because the normal use case here is on > regular Ethernet. In any case it doesn't seem like a blocker for a first > pass and could likely be

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread luke.leighton
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Arnaud Patard wrote: > "luke.leighton" writes: > Hi, > >> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: >>> On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 12:18 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: * create a modified netinst-initrd that uses usb0 ethernet gadget *blind* (no con

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 10:37 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 12:18 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > >> * create a modified netinst-initrd that uses usb0 ethernet gadget > >> *blind* (no console!!) which gets far enough on its

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread Rtp
"luke.leighton" writes: Hi, > On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: >> On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 12:18 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: >>> * create a modified netinst-initrd that uses usb0 ethernet gadget >>> *blind* (no console!!) which gets far enough on its own to do DHCP >>> client >>

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-19 Thread luke.leighton
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 12:18 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: >> * create a modified netinst-initrd that uses usb0 ethernet gadget >> *blind* (no console!!) which gets far enough on its own to do DHCP >> client >> >> * also pre-install some sort of

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-18 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 12:18 +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > * create a modified netinst-initrd that uses usb0 ethernet gadget > *blind* (no console!!) which gets far enough on its own to do DHCP > client > > * also pre-install some sort of service (ssh? busybox telnet? other?) > which allows an inte

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-18 Thread luke.leighton
i've started a page here which is the notes being collated to get this done: http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/debian_netboot/ l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://li

modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-18 Thread luke.leighton
i got debian/armhf up and running on the a10-eoma68 board, but i'd like to make it easier for other people to install debian on it. the generally-proven method "go download some whopping great 1gbyte random image off the internet with packages preinstalled that you don't actually want" is pretty s