Problem Getting Started with SD Card booting

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Problem Getting Started with SD Card booting

Postby ernanirst » Thu Dec 22, 2016 11:30 pm

Hi, I'm a beginner with the ARCHLINUX. I just got a UDOO QUAD board and I'm trying to install an ARCHLINUX on the SD CARD to boot with it. I found this tutorial (https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/freescale/udoo) online, however, I can't complete Step 6, where I'm suppose to extract the files to the mnt folder like this: bsdtar -xpf ArchLinuxARM-armv7-latest.tar.gz -C mnt

This command generates a lot of errors like this:
./usr/share/file/misc/: Can't create 'usr/share/file/misc'

And eventually stop with an error message. I searched online and saw other people suggesting to use tar instead, like this: sudo tar -xzvf ArchLinuxARM-armv7-latest.tar.gz -C mnt/

However, this gives me a bunch of other errors that I have no idea why is it appearing:
tar: ./usr/bin/groups: Cannot open: No such file or directory
./usr/bin/krb5kdc
tar: ./usr: Cannot mkdir: Input/output error

So, I'm stuck here. Can someone point me to the right direction?

Best Regards, Ernani
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Re: Problem Getting Started with SD Card booting

Postby summers » Fri Dec 23, 2016 10:14 am

try using df. I suspect that mnt doesn't have the SD card mounted on it RW. If so you'll need to mount it, so something like:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp')
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Re: Problem Getting Started with SD Card booting

Postby ernanirst » Sat Dec 24, 2016 7:37 pm

Thanks for the reply summers,

I did mounted the card with $this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'sudo mount /dev/sdb1 mnt/') before posting here. About df, I currently use df for listing only, with $this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'df -h'), what are you suggesting me to use df for?

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Re: Problem Getting Started with SD Card booting

Postby summers » Sun Dec 25, 2016 6:21 pm

Meant use df just to check the filesystem is mounted correctly. Could also be the some file systems don't take all properties, eg IIRC vfat has problems with group ownership.
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Re: Problem Getting Started with SD Card booting

Postby WarheadsSE » Mon Dec 26, 2016 5:11 pm

"vfat as problems with" ==> "vfat does not support"
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