I have been using the Online-Builder on Narcissus all week with no
luck on my new BeagleBoard. Lots of segment errors, tons of lock
ups. But the Ansgstom image that came with the board works
flawlessly.
So I am assuming that all of these BeageBoard images that are out
there do not work for the BeagleBoard-XM.
So I am looking for a good Angstrom image(s) that actually work on the
BeagleBoard-xM.
Help would be greatly appreciated!
Strange, I built an image a week ago with Narcissus and worked great.
Well, there’s a tricky thing i noticed. I got many errors trying to build a large image when running it.
But if you build a minimal image, you can boot this image and use opkg to install the other packages. This worked fine for me
Rafael
Did you have to do anything special? Like change any of the boot
parameters?
I tried a simple console build for the Beagleboard and it had a hard
time booting, lockups, segmentation faults, and would not do a opt
update command completely.
I only changed the boot parameters to have the default video output on the s-video port and not the HDMI port.
My starting point was a working SD Card with Angstrom that came with me BB. I copied all its contents to another sd card, set the boot partition to bootable (a flag at fdisk) and replaced the root filesystem with the one generated by narcissus. So i could keep the original sd card and start playing with another.
Did you receive a test sd card with your BB? Does it work well?
Rafael
I did not do it the same way that you did. I downloaded rootfs and
the image (which included u-boot, mlo and the uImage file) burned the
image to the sd drive and then copied the rootfs.
I will try it your way Monday and see what happens.
One more thought. The way you are doing it you are using the old
kernel that came with your bbxm board. Isn't the uImage file the
Linux kernel? So maybe I am having problems because Narcissus is
giving me a bad kernel; one that is not tuned to the bbxm but rather
tuned to the original bb.
One more thought. The way you are doing it you are using the old
kernel that came with your bbxm board. Isn't the uImage file the
Linux kernel? So maybe I am having problems because Narcissus is
giving me a bad kernel; one that is not tuned to the bbxm but rather
tuned to the original bb.
That's nonsense, all beagleboards use the exact same kernel in angstrom, we invested lots of time to make that work. I just booted a narcissus image on my xm without problems.
You could be right. I have had it boot too. But when I run opkg update
it will lockup or give me segmentation errors. Run python and you get
segmentation errors. Can't get qt to download. And my list could go
on. But all these things run great on the angstrom that came with
board.
Hi Koen,
Is there any problem concerning angstrom-distribution web site?
I have diffculty downloading any file (packages, images and so on).
Load times are also very long.
thanks
Here is a brand new build from Narcissus, install went without
problems, but tons of errors before I get "kernel panic".
This build is a simple-console for Beagleboard
looks like a faultly sd card or power supply, have you checked those?
It does?
I tried two power supplies (same power supply that I use with the
Angstrom image that comes with the unit, and it works fine). I have
tried four different sd cards from Kingston, Sandisk and Transcend
with the same problems.
Here is the process that I am using to "burn" the sd card, maybe
something is wrong with my procedure.
Download the two files from Narcisuss.
# create image file
gunzip random-8c5410b1-image-beagleboard-sd-1GiB.img.gz
# burn image on sd card
sudo dd if=random-8c5410b1-image-beagleboard-sd-1GiB.img of=/dev/sdb
# put the root files on /dev/sdb2
sudo tar -xvj -C /media/rootfs -f random-0746aa18-image-
beagleboard.tar.bz2
Thanks for your help.
My BB is a rev-a with a micron memory; white sticker on the board says
A2. What is your board that a narcissus image booted on?