beagle bone?

[tlossen]

has anybody tried to get arch linux running on the new beaglebone board?

thanks
tim

http://beagleboard.org/bone

[WarheadsSE]

I don't think any of the developers own one yet

[tlossen]

well, i received mine a few days ago, so the first units are definitely being shipped.

[kmihelich]

It should work the same as Beagle/Panda. Set up the SD card correctly and you should be booted.

If you'd like to verify that the Beagleboard steps apply, or which need to be changed, I can add it into the main site's instructions for others to follow.

[tlossen]

ok, i'll try and see if i can get it running.

[tlossen]

no luck so far.

i have followed the installation instructions for "beagle board xD".
my sd card (4 gig) now has the following partition table:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sde: 4124 MB, 4124049408 bytes
110 heads, 45 sectors/track, 1627 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4950 * 512 = 2534400 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4dd1b69a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sde1 * 1 50 123727+ e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
/dev/sde2 51 1627 3903075 83 Linux
')

partition 1 contains the following:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
root@debian:/mnt/sde1# ls -lh
total 4.6M
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 224 Feb 24 19:56 boot.scr
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23K Jul 21 2011 mlo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 313K Jul 21 2011 u-boot.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.3M Feb 24 19:15 uImage
')

where

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
root@debian:/mnt/sde1# mkimage -l boot.scr
Image Name: beaglebone_boot_script
Created: Thu Feb 24 19:56:15 2011
Image Type: ARM Linux Script (uncompressed)
Data Size: 160 Bytes = 0.16 kB = 0.00 MB
Load Address: 0x00000000
Entry Point: 0x00000000
Contents:
Image 0: 152 Bytes = 0 kB = 0 MB
')

when i reboot the beagle bone, the serial console output is only

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
CCCCCCCC
')

any ideas what could be wrong / missing ??

(this is the first time ever i try to install arch linux ....)

[teachop]

I was able to get the arch linux omap rootfs up and pacman-ing on a beaglebone by substituting the kernel and modules from the angstrom distro. I also had to change the serial references to ttyO0 if I remember correctly. That was it.

[kmihelich]

What was the error booting our kernel? There shouldn't be anything in the Bone that the omap kernel can't handle. Good to note that serial is O0 and not O2 though.

[teachop]

I think it went dark right after "uncompressing Linux done. booting". I looked at the kernel config between them and there were too many differences to sort through even though they were both 3.1.something, I will -Syu and try it again for more info...

[kmihelich]

Compared to the Angstrom kernel we have a ton of stuff enabled since we produce much more than just a validation image.