[Freedombox-discuss] Fwd: Re: Required changes in Makefile?

[Jack Wilborn]

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I think the mail encrypted that, so I'll try again... Sorry..


> > Nick, just a quick question...
> >
> > The make facility is not quite operating properly now.  My device is on
> > /dev/sdf1, I changed the Makefile to reflect that, but there are times
> > that a different device path shows up.  It maybe that I saw that error
> > and tried to fix that also.
You don't need to change the makefile, you can just run:

    make DEVICE=/dev/sdf plugserver-image

> > I noticed, with grep /dev/sd it produced
> >
> > ifneq ($(DEVICE),/dev/sda)
> >
> > and is apreantly only when creating a non armel processor, as far as I
> > can tell reading the code.
Nice work, finding that.  You shouldn't change that line, as it makes
sure that you don't accidentally make your hosting system unbootable.

> > Also, there are two places that are named in the SD card, one is
> > 'freedom' and the other is 'boot', which is the vfat partition?  I
> > thought it was boot, but I've managed to confuse myself and now with a
> > newly rebuilt system, I can't get a built freedombox image.  I can't
> > afford 10 bucks to download the one you have built every week.  Most are
> > frustrating like 'nothing to do', which is what happens when I try to
> > build the virtual fb.
The vfat partition is the first partition on the device, which is
mounted to /media/freedom/boot - See the FM readme, line 313 for details:

> > Partition a USB stick to have a small FAT partition and large ext2
> > partition, create a /media/freedom mount point, and add entries to
> > /etc/fstab like:
> >
> >     /dev/sdb1 /media/freedom/boot vfat user,noauto 0 0
> >     /dev/sdb2 /media/freedom ext2 user,noauto 0 0
Nick


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