Hi all,
I'm a very new member to the beagleboard community and have run into
my first dead-end with my new beagleboard-xm. My initial goal is
simply get Angstrom running on my new beagleboard-xm using the gnome
desktop manager. After a bit of reading on the net it seemed that the
quickest and easiest way to get something going is to use Steve
Sakonman's gnome-image (I plan to use openembedded to build angstom-
gnome-image later on).
My problem is that my beagleboard boot's the image just fine (no
horrible errors or anything), but never get's around to starting X /
GNOME, I simply get left at the Angstrom login on the console (with
"Angstrom" written in ASCii art). I'm certain there is something
completely trivial that I'm missing to get it to start the desktop,
but after hours of scouring the net, I just can't find what it is.
Here are the steps I performed to get where I am:
1. First, backed up the contents of the SD card that shipped with the
device.
2. Formatted the SD card in the usual way, ready to have it's nice new
gnome installation put on it.
3. Downloaded Sakonman's gnome image from here:
http://www.sakoman.com/component/option,com_phocadownload/Itemid,60/download,22/id,5/view,category/
4. Downloaded the associated uImage kernal file from here:
http://www.sakoman.com/component/option,com_phocadownload/Itemid,60/download,23/id,5/view,category/
5. Copied the following files into the boot partition in the following
order
-MLO (the one from my original SD card, not Sakoman's, as my
board is an xM and I'm told that the Sakoman's MLO is for a standard
beagleboard, not for the xM)
- u-boot.bin (again the one from the backup of my original SD
card)
- uImage (from Sankoman's website downloaded in step 4)
- ramfs.img (from the original SD backup)
- ramdisk.gz (from original SD backup)
- boot.scr (from original SD backup)
6. Copied Sankoman's tar.bz2 file downloaded in step 3 to the Angstrom
parition and untarred it there.
7. Umounted both partitions, removed the SD card and put it into the
beagleboard.
8. Connected up my TV to the HDMI port and my laptop the serial port.
Started up mini-com and powered up the beagle.
This took me the Angstrom console login page on both the serial
connection and the TV!
I did some googling on how one might start X / GNOME from the console
to no-avail. I tried suggestions such as run "startx" etc all of which
provoked the "command not found" response.
Would be eternally greatful for some advice
Thanks, Paul