[fedora-arm] Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4 -- not booting on Cubietruck

[Andy Green]

On 23 October 2014 12:33:59 GMT+08:00, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>
>On 10/22/2014 11:49 PM, Andy Green wrote:
>>
>> On 23 October 2014 11:41:05 GMT+08:00, Robert Moskowitz
><rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>>> On 10/22/2014 05:49 PM, Paul Whalen wrote:
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> I downloaded:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/21_Beta_TC4/Images/armhfp/Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4-sda.raw.xz
>>>>> And the checksum (sha256sum) agrees.  I build the SD card with:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>/home/rgm/arm/fedora-arm-image-installer/fedora-arm-image-installer.sh
>>>>> --image=/home/rgm/arm/Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4-sda.raw.xz
>>>>> --target=Cubietruck --media=/dev/sdb --norootpass
>>>>>
>>>>> I put the SD card in my Cubietruck and here is what I get on the
>>> serial
>>>>> console:
>>>>>
>>>>> Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4 Boot Options.
>>>>> 1:      Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4
>(3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl)
>>>>> Enter choice: 1:        Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4
>>>>> (3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl)
>>>>> Retrieving file: /initramfs-3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl.img
>>>>> 28085684 bytes read in 1456 ms (18.4 MiB/s)
>>>>> Retrieving file: /vmlinuz-3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl
>>>>> 5538024 bytes read in 471 ms (11.2 MiB/s)
>>>>> append: ro root=UUID=b6a0bdb6-46ac-4206-b116-72e95429cfcd
>>>>> Retrieving file:
>>> /dtb-3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl/sun7i-a20-cubietruck.dtb
>>>>> 22431 bytes read in 1239 ms (17.6 KiB/s)
>>>>> Kernel image @ 0x42000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x5480e8 ]
>>>>> ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 43000000
>>>>>       Booting using the fdt blob at 0x43000000
>>>>>       Loading Ramdisk to 4e537000, end 4ffffdb4 ... OK
>>>>>       Loading Device Tree to 4e52e000, end 4e53679e ... OK
>>>>>
>>>>> Starting kernel ...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> and there it sits.
>>>> Add the console to your extlinux.conf. For Cubietruck
>>> -'console=ttyS0,115200'.
>>>
>>> What is the syntax for adding this?  To what line of:
>>>
>>> # extlinux.conf generated by appliance-creator
>>> ui menu.c32
>>> menu autoboot Welcome to Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4.
>Automatic
>>> boot in # second{,s}. Press a key for options.
>>> menu title Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4 Boot Options.
>>> menu hidden
>>> timeout 20
>>> totaltimeout 600
>>>
>>> label Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4 (3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl)
>>>      kernel /vmlinuz-3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl
>>>      append ro root=UUID=b6a0bdb6-46ac-4206-b116-72e95429cfcd
>> Stick it on the append line.
>>
>> I pointed out having to do this on the list a few weeks ago but it
>evidently got ignored and rediscovered.
>
>Oh, I saw it, but was in no position at the time to figure out what it 
>all meant (by doing it).

I meant not fixed in Fedora.  I wasn't expecting you to do anything about it.

>> BTW I also have a cubietruck and
>Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-rawhide-20141019-sda.raw.xz failed to do anything
>useful until the uboot on the SD was replaced.
>
>What do you mean by this?  That I have to separately do:
>
>dd 
>if=/run/media/rgm/__/usr/share/uboot/Cubietruck/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin
>of=/dev/sdb 
>bs=1024 seek=8; sync
>
>?
>
>And since cubieboard2 is not one of the installation options, but there
>is a
>
>/usr/share/uboot/Cubieboard2/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin
>
>That all I need to do is dd this .bin and I can test on my C2?

Who knows.  I just reported my personal experience with a specific build which should be interesting for the Fedora guys.

-Andy

>> -Andy
>>
>>>      fdtdir /dtb-3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl/
>>>      initrd /initramfs-3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl.img
>>>
>>> I tried putting it as a line after that last, but it did not make a
>>> difference...
>>>
>>>> In F20 there was some logic to pull in the appropriate console from
>>> uboot
>>>> if missing in the append line. We needs this back or an
>alternative.
>>> I did not have to do this pre-alpha, but I suspect this is the new
>>> uboot
>>> serial console issue being discussed?
>>>
>>>>> I have a couple days for testing until I start travel, what should
>I
>>> try
>>>>> to trouble shoot this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also I see that there is now a /usr/share/uboot/cubieboard2/
>>> directory,
>>>>> but it is not one of the script install options.  How do I build a
>>>>> cubieboard2 SD card for testing?
>>>> For the 'arm-installer' script you can drop a 'config' file in the
>>> 'boards.d'
>>>> directory and it should work. Take a look at the others for an
>>> example. Let me
>>>> know it's working and I can add it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>>> thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
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