[fedora-arm] F19 install on mirabox

[Jared K. Smith]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Jon <jdisnard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here are my notes on MiraBox.
> (These are adapted from Jon Masters)
>

Thanks for posting these!  I'm still not able to get them to work -- maybe
someone on the list can tell me what I'm doing wrong.  I started by
downloading Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-19-1-sda.raw.xz, finding that the
micro-sd card was showing up as /dev/sdb on my system, and then doing (as
root):

xzcat Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-19-1-sda.raw.xz > /dev/sdb

After the light on the SD card reader stopped blinking, I ran "sync" a
couple of times to ensure that the data had all been written.  I then
examine the SD card -- it had three partitions: a boot partition, a swap
partition, and a root partition.  Everything looked in order so far.

>
> [jon at shambhala ~]$ cat mira-notes.txt
> #version=3.9.5-301.fc19
> version=3.10.0-1.fc20
>
>
> # change to the boot directory on the rootfs
> # all paths are relative to the boot partition.
>
>
>
> cat vmlinuz-${version}.armv7hl \
>     dtb-${version}.armv7hl/armada-370-mirabox.dtb > \
>     vmlinuz-${version}.armv7hl.mirabox-adtb
>
> mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none \
>         -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 \
>         -n "${version}.armv7hl.mirabox-adtb" \
>         -d vmlinuz-${version}.armv7hl.mirabox-adtb \
>         uImage-${version}.armv7hl.mirabox-adtb
>
> /bin/cp -f uImage-${version}.armv7hl.mirabox-adtb uImage
> /bin/cp -f uInitrd-${version}.armv7hl uInitrd
>

I followed all of these commands, and created the new uImage with the
appended dtb.  So far so good.


> # bellow are the u-boot commands
>
> setenv bootcmd 'usb start; ext2load usb 1:1 0x02000000 uImage;
> ext2load usb 1:1 0x02800000 uInitrd; bootm 0x02000000 0x02800000'
> setenv bootargs 'ro rootwait earlyprintk debug root=/dev/sdb3
> console=ttyS0,115200'
> run bootcmd
>

This is where I ran into problems.  When I run the "ext2load usb 1:1"
command, I get an error message:

Marvell>> ext2load usb 1:1 0x02000000 uImage
** Bad partition 1 **

Any idea why I'd be getting a "bad partition" message?  Here's the output
of parted on the SD card:

[root at hockey ISO]# parted /dev/sdb print
Model: USB Mass Storage Device (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 15.7GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system     Flags
 1      1000kB  513MB   512MB   primary  ext3            boot
 2      513MB   1025MB  512MB   primary  linux-swap(v1)
 3      1025MB  15.7GB  14.7GB  primary  ext4

I'll continue to fiddle with this again today.

--
Jared Smith
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