[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0930 Available

Nick M. Daly nick.m.daly at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 03:03:48 UTC 2012


Anthony Shaper writes:

> What is the "MicroSD non booting bug"?  I spent a lot of last Sunday
> installing unstable_2012.0915 by copying the image onto the microSD on
> my dreamplug.  After updating my U-boot (Which was scary) and some
> playing around with U-boot configuration I managed to get the system
> to boot.  I haven't had a chance to test 0930 yet.

There were two bugs, one a mistake and one by design.

The bug-by-design prevented the DreamPlug from booting until the uboot
is updated.  Bdale brought some much needed changes for the 0.1 release
that required the latest (Wheezy's) uboot.  DreamPlugs distributed by
Marvell do not, at this point, include these changes.  So, unless you
get a DreamPlug from the FreedomBox Foundation (like the KickStarter
contributors did), you have to update the uboot.  Updating the uboot
requires a JTAG.

The bug-by-mistake is still somewhat hazy to me, partly because I've not
had a lot of time to look at it.  The boot process hangs indefinitely
after the system displays "decompressing Linux, booting kernel".  Best
guess?  The initrd has a malformed partition table, a side-effect of
cross-building, which only started meaning anything after the, above,
0.1 changes.  The fix might be to update /etc/fstab before building the
image:

: -/dev/sdc2 /		auto	relatime,rw	0	0
: +/dev/sda2 /		auto	relatime,rw	0	0
: -/dev/sdc1 /boot  	vfat	defaults	0	0
: +/dev/sda1 /boot  	vfat	defaults	0	0

I don't think the 2012.0915 image booted for me, unfortunately, I don't
recall and didn't take notes.  The 2012.0930 image has the above change.

Nick
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