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This page is to explain how to run debian armel port on neo1973. This instructions are likely to work on freerunner, too.
this kernel was build by Marcel_M and has some important patches in it such as removed sd debug symbols and build-in ext3 support.
wget http://rabenfrost.net/celtune/uImage-2.6.24+svnr4194-r4165-r3-neo1973.bin ./dfu-util -d 0x1457:0x5119 -a kernel -R -D ./uImage-2.6.24+svnr4194-r4165-r3-neo1973.bin
As there is no way to boot from sdhc with uboot directly I always copy my kernel to flash and let it boot my rootfs from sd but feel free to do it your way.
Do as proposed here: Booting_from_SD
debootstrap your rootfs on debian or ubuntu
debootstrap --verbose --arch armel --foreign sid ./armel-chroot http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/
ssh to your neo and format your sd card appropriately. I'm using an 8GB shcd card here.
umount /media/card mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1 mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/card
copy the armel chroot to your device by tar'ing it to circumvent symbolic link cycles (https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1059 <= WONTFIX)
tar -C ./armel-chroot/ -c . | ssh root@192.168.0.202 tar -C /media/card -xv
ssh to your device and execute the following commands (just copypaste everything below)
echo "nameserver 192.168.0.200" > /media/card/etc/resolv.conf echo "fic-gta01" > /media/card/etc/hostname echo "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost fic-gta01" > /media/card/etc/hosts echo -e "auto lo\n\ iface lo inet loopback\n\ auto usb0\n\ iface usb0 inet static\n\ address 192.168.0.202\n\ netmask 255.255.255.0\n\ network 192.168.0.0\n\ gateway 192.168.0.200\n\ up echo nameserver 192.168.0.200 >/etc/resolv.conf" > /media/card/etc/network/interfaces echo -e "rootfs / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,noatime 0 1\n\ proc /proc proc defaults 0 0\n\ tmpfs /etc/network/run tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0\n\ tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0\n\ tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0\n\ tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0\n\ tmpfs /var/run tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0\n\ tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0" > /media/card/etc/fstab
now chroot into your armel rootfs and finish the install
chroot /media/card /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage echo "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main" > /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install openssh-server apt-get install locales dpkg-reconfigure locales apt-get install udev passwd
You may also copy some kernel modules over doing this (still on the neo)
wget http://rabenfrost.net/celtune/modules-2.6.24+svnr4194-r4165-r3-neo1973.tgz tar -C /media/card -xzvf modules-2.6.24+svnr4194-r4165-r3-neo1973.tgz chroot /media/card depmod -a
now reboot and start your debian. you can login with ssh and start configuring xorg - I will add this soon.
apt-get install xorg startx
doing this I get:
Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 255 (No such file or directory)
this sux as I already fixed this problem a while ago but cannot remember how I did it - can anybody fix this?