[RESOLVED] Broken link beagleboard bootloader?

[Willem]

Hi,

I can't download this link:
http://archlinuxarm.org/os/omap/BeagleB ... der.tar.gz
I get the 404 Not Found error.

Thanks

[kmihelich]

I haven't packaged that up yet, you can use what's on the shipped SD card or recreate from files here (which is all that tarball will be anyway):
http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/

[Willem]

Thank you, will do.

[Shasta]

Hello,

Can you tell me if I've just to do this to make the bootloader:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')ow to Unpack and Boot the Demo Image
Format the SD card using mkcard.txt. For example: sh mkcard.txt /dev/sdX, where X is the drive letter of the SD card. On systems like Ubuntu that would look like 'sudo sh mkcard.txt /dev/sdX'.
Copy MLO and u-boot.bin from http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/ to the first partition
Unpack the tarball to the root partition of your Beagleboard SD card.
NOTE: superuser privileges are required when unpacking the image so that device nodes can be created on the SD card filesystem.
eg. for Linux:

$ sudo tar -xjv -C /media/rootfs -f /path/to/Angstrom-Beagleboard-demo-image*rootfs.tar.bz2

This assumes that the SD card has the root filesystem (ext3) partition mounted as /media/rootfs.
NOTE: unpacking can take several minutes due to the amount of data.
Ensure all SD card filesystem operations have completed (ie. filesystem cache has flushed to SD card) and eject the SD card from your development machine. Most operating systems have a "Safely Remove" action to perform this from the Desktop.
Insert SD card into Beagleboard and power it up.

[kmihelich]

mkcard.txt is a bash script to create the SD card in a way that will make a Beagle/Panda recognize it properly. Be sure to double-check through the script so you're using all available space for your card.

You then just need to copy the MLO and u-boot.bin to the first fat16/32 partition of the card. Extract our omap-smp to the ext3/4 second partition on the card, then copy uImage from /boot on the ext partition to the fat partition. Then create the proper boot.scr to use the uImage and boot with root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 and you should be set.

[Shasta]

Hi,

Thank you for your answer, but I've just another question, how do you obtain /dev/mmcblk0p1 /dev/mmcblk0p2? Because on my computer I only have /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2 for the sd card.

I received my xM recently, so I discover boot sequence .

cordialy.

[kmihelich]

To the beagleboard, the SD card will show up as mmcblk0p1 (for the first fat partition) and mmcblk0p2 (for the ext3 partition). You'll need to use those values when required on the beagle, and in the boot.scr that you generate.

On your computer, use it however it shows up. If you're using an SD->USB adapter, you'll probably get sd*. You won't see mmcblk generally unless your computer also has an SD slot.

[Shasta]

Hi,

Ok, thank you for all .

I am testing it.

[ggeorgan]

This downloads page reports the md5sum of ArchLinuxARM-omap-smp-latest.tar.gz as 9e79cfb1f718e004d4da8f569ed75ffe.
I downloaded it twice, only to get an md5sum of c42f4e0038affe0e5deebab0718df135. What is one to do ?
Moreover, it would be really helpful to have an example of a tar command that one can work with to extract the tarball. It is really hard for a beginner to follow the Angstrom reference. For instance, Angstrom has a bz2 tarball, while archlinuxARM has a bzip tarball

[WarheadsSE]

In theory, both should be tar xjf