On 10/06/15 16:18, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 06/10/2015 10:01 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
On 10/06/15 15:54, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 06/06/2015 07:25 PM, Mandar Joshi wrote:
You'll have to run dracut yourself to build one, as far as I am aware, I'm used to a raspi which needs to use binary firmware, and the generic kernel doesn't work as well as the one compiled by the raspi foundation
cc35359, Running dracut manually did the trick. I am able to use CentOS7 stock kernel on my Cubietruck3.
Gordan, I am using the kernel that is available in the CentOS Repo vmlinuz-4.0.0-1.el7.armv7hl
Ok, so the next task I created a disk image using dd and installed @core and kernel. This works on the Cubietruck3.
Do you mind sharing how you created the disk image and kernel .. did you write it to nand or sd card.
I have a cubietruck and have installed Fedora20 .. I have no idea how to do anything else with it, but I would like to learn how to take either a chroot'ed area or a mounted SD Card and create a bootable image for that.
If I can get something decent working, we'll be showing it at Red Hat Summit in a couple of weeks at the CentOS room.
I can't help you with a Cubietruck specifically as I don't own one, but if there is an existing dd-and-go bootable image somewhere that you can point me at, I could cook you up a RedSleeve EL7 (or EL6 if you prefer) image that you could test. :)
Well, I understand everything that was done using yum and --installroot previously in this thread .. what I don't understand is how this thing actually boots and how to create that. In Fedora20, /boot/ is empty, so I am lost :)
It will depend on youboot loader. It could be that the kernel lives in NAND.
What I would like to be able to do, if possible, is figure out make the root above into an image that I could install into the nand, etc. I would also be fine to put it on an sdcard as well. But knowing how to actually create all this stuff would be very nice to know :)
Unfortunately, that is device specific, and as I mentioned, I don't own a Cubie.
You can find installation guides for RS here: https://wiki.redsleeve.org/index.php/Main_Page If cubie is similar to any of those, you should be able to adapt the process.
It seems that Mandar has all the knowledge I need .. is there a good blog post somewhere that details actually creating the bootable images, etc? Or would you post detailed commands like the one you did for the creation of the root, etc.
I created a sparc version beta of CentOS-4 and I know how to use UEFI on the armv8 stuff .. it's just these armv7 boards that are throwing me for a loop. But hopefully once I see some examples I can figure this stuff out.
Does it use uboot? If so, can you interrupt the boot and look at printenv for clues?
Gordan