**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Mon Jul 27 02:59:57 2009 Jul 27 02:59:59 elfMobile: heloo Jul 27 03:00:04 helloo Jul 27 03:00:15 tinker-f595, hey Jul 27 03:00:27 back from my walk Jul 27 03:00:34 damn it... now my GF is calling Jul 27 03:01:10 i did get it to boot off of my HDD Jul 27 03:01:21 this is the commands I used for uboot with an hdd Jul 27 03:01:39 only after I had it plugged into my laptop and moved it quick. When it was cold and not spinning the "usb start" command didn't find it Jul 27 03:01:45 only when it was already spinning Jul 27 03:01:55 gotta talk to my GF... be back in 20 Jul 27 03:02:03 bootargs=console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda5 rootdelay=10 mtdparts=orion_nand:0x4000000@0x100000(uImage),0x1fb00000@0x500000(rootfs) rw Jul 27 03:02:03 bootcmd=usb start; ext2load usb 0:1 0x8000000 /uImage; bootm 0x8000000; reset Jul 27 03:02:18 okay Jul 27 03:02:40 going to have dinner now anyways Jul 27 03:04:24 what boot commands did you use? Jul 27 03:13:46 I am following the Gentoo guide http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/sheevaplug/install.xml Jul 27 03:14:04 ext2load usb 0:1 0x8000000 /sheevaplug.initramfs Jul 27 03:14:04 ext2load usb 0:1 0x2000000 /uImage_kwplug Jul 27 03:14:04 setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/ram rw Jul 27 03:14:04 bootm 0x2000000 0x8000000 Jul 27 03:14:24 ... that is how I am getting into my environment now and setting things up. Not that far yet Jul 27 03:15:37 you need the rootdelay command Jul 27 03:15:48 so the disk has a chance to spin up Jul 27 03:17:21 actually rootdelay bootarg Jul 27 03:30:38 anyway I still need to optimize my boot sequence Jul 27 03:35:13 with gentoo there are 2 things that I need to "load" Jul 27 03:35:26 the uImage_kwplug and the initramfs Jul 27 03:35:51 yep Jul 27 03:35:55 or maybe that is just to get into the other environment to finish setting up gentoo... I dunno Jul 27 03:36:06 * elfMobile should find out what a uImage and an initramfs are Jul 27 03:36:12 I want to rebuild the kernel for deb that way Jul 27 03:37:06 anyway if you have the bootarg rootdelay=10 then it should give enough time for your hdd to spin up Jul 27 03:37:32 i'll try that Jul 27 03:37:41 but right now I am typing these commands manually Jul 27 03:38:04 that will only help me when I don't enter uboot and let it boot on its own right? Jul 27 03:44:00 yes Jul 27 03:45:19 I also put a reset at the end of the bootcmd sequence in case it failed. But from the few times I have watched through the serial console it booted okay without needing to reset for a timeout Jul 27 03:45:52 It may depend also on the chipset in your usb enclosure how fast the drive comes alive Jul 27 03:48:54 hmm... so gentoo is source based. I found it interesting that the default gcc options for the ARM version of gentoo have -O0 Jul 27 03:49:14 are gcc optimizations no good with ARM? Jul 27 03:52:53 wat Jul 27 03:55:32 actually it was -Os Jul 27 03:55:33 my bad Jul 27 03:55:33 elfMobile: you need to compile it eabi Jul 27 03:55:49 tinker-f595, the gentoo guide mentioned that.... Jul 27 03:55:58 CHOST="armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi" Jul 27 03:56:06 yep Jul 27 05:09:05 great... this sheevaplug is horrible with bz2, just like those sparc Solaris machines at work Jul 27 05:09:25 what ? Jul 27 05:10:11 person who wrote those gentoo instructions does not seem to know much abotu ABI versus EABI Jul 27 05:11:55 They should read http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Why-ARMs-EABI-matters/ **** ENDING LOGGING AT Mon Jul 27 05:58:10 2009 **** BEGIN LOGGING AT Mon Jul 27 06:00:14 2009 **** ENDING LOGGING AT Mon Jul 27 06:02:16 2009 **** BEGIN LOGGING AT Mon Jul 27 06:03:37 2009 Jul 27 13:14:07 tinker-f595: i am that person, what i mean is that both run on the sheevaplug Jul 27 13:14:55 it was copied from the ts409 guide i did, which hanged the processor if you used old abi Jul 27 13:17:00 oh, they started selling eu versions of the plug :D Jul 27 14:28:14 armin76, eu versions? Jul 27 14:35:17 armin76: HI Jul 27 14:35:24 no offense meant Jul 27 14:37:02 armin76: It might be worth putting a your article a link to http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Articles/Why-ARMs-EABI-matters/ Jul 27 15:25:07 guerby: european, or so says openplug.org, haven't looked tbh Jul 27 15:26:32 armin76, ah ok Jul 27 15:27:39 look here http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-2-globalscale-technologies-products.aspx Jul 28 02:22:53 so I want to run gentoo like this guide... but I want to have my image on the hard drive not in flash.http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/sheevaplug/install.xml Jul 28 02:23:07 how can I do that? I have the uImage made but I don't know what else to do **** ENDING LOGGING AT Tue Jul 28 02:59:57 2009