So with a recent and clean Debian Wheezy, I was able to run freedom-maker (latest version from Nick's repository), however I still had a few issues..<br><br>Running freedom-maker under Debian Squeeze didn't work at all for me, lots of errors, only Wheezy worked.<br>
<br>Glad to see the projects-chroot.sh reference in bin/finalize was changed to projects-chroot, that had also confused me in the past :)<br><br>I still had to manually copy the kernel/uInitrd file to /boot, I don't know why freedom-maker doesn't copy it.<br>
<br>I WAS finally able to boot my Guruplug with the self-built image on a USB stick:<br><br><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">usb start</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">fatload usb 0:1 0x800000 uImage</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
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fatload usb 0:1 0x1100000 uInitrd</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">setenv bootargs root=/dev/sda2</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">bootm 0x800000 0x1100000<br>
</span><br>The boot process was extremely fast and didn't output anything until the login:<br><br><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00800000 ...</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> Image Name: Debian kernel 3.0.0-kirkwood</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> Data Size: 2733148 Bytes = 2.6 MiB</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> Load Address: 00008000</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> Entry Point: 00008000</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> Verifying Checksum ... OK</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 01100000 ...</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> Image Name: Debian ramdisk 3.0.0-kirkwood</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> Data Size: 2455604 Bytes = 2.3 MiB</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> Load Address: 00000000</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> Entry Point: 00000000</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> Verifying Checksum ... OK</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> Loading Kernel Image ... OK</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">OK</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Starting kernel ...</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid freedombox ttyS0</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">freedombox login:</span><br>
<br>However I am still not sure if the image built correctly after all, e.g. I got the following when trying to start Plinth:<br><br><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">$ ./plinth.py</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Traceback (most recent call last):</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> File "./plinth.py", line 6, in <module></span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> import cfg</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">ImportError: No module named cfg</span><br style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
<br>Which makes me wonder if my self-built image is okay, or if something went wrong.<br><br>Is Plinth supposed to start automatically when the FreedomBox boots, or do you have to start it manually?<br><br>I'm attaching my output of the freedom-maker script, in case anyone is interested..<br>
<br>Markus<br><br>