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So here’s my use case:  I need a camera that is easily positioned away from the Raspberry Pi and can stream via mjpeg-streamer.  Not huge requirements.  Here is why the Raspicam doesn’t fit that use case. I’ve received a camera with the wrong cable from a Chinese distributor via Amazon.  […]

Why a Raspicam isn’t better than a USB webcam.


I’ve been working on building custom Debian and Ubuntu distributions for use under VirtualBox.   One advantage that both have over Fedora is debootstrap.  This tool allows you to create a default rootfs from pre-compiled packages inside a directory.  You can then chroot into that directory to install the kernel image, […]

Debian/Ubuntu debootstrap images for VirtualBox




This past weekend I made the 0.4.0 release of BeagleBox.  This is a major milestone for the project because it establishes the baselines for two of the core software componets, the bootloader and the kernel.  I made a public release on SourceForge and updated the source and build pages on […]

BeagleBox: V0.4.0 released, wiki updated


Trying to come to grips with the myriad of source trees from which BeagleBoard related source can be pulled, I updated the BeagleBoard build system the other day to make it easier to pull from the various archives.  Technically there are four ways to get source related to BeagleBoard: A […]

BeagleBox: finding Mr. DSS2


I upgraded to Fedora 14 at work yesterday.  For the most part the typical processes I’ve written about before worked fine.  But two places exposed some caveats. First, network based installation using NFS doesn’t work. What happens is that after the bootloader info is taken some attempt to access the […]

Fedora 14 mini review



This weekend I buckled down and merged the BeagleBoard validation images kernel configuration into my BeagleBox kernel configuration.  When I booted the resulting kernel with the validation images ramdisk image it worked.  Unfortunately, because there were a fair number of changes to merge in it isn’t clear exactly which ones […]

BeagleBox: kernel boots initrd, initramfs still doesn’t work


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I couldn’t figure out why my initrd or rootfs wouldn’t work and had exhausted all obvious solutions.  Jumping to Occam’s Razor, I decided the problem may be with the cross compiler toolchain.  So I grabbed Free Electron’s (FE) embedded Linux training lab (which focuses on the BeagleBoard) and decided to […]

BeagleBox: small steps – better xcc, u-boot/kernel boot but ...


With a better understanding of what’s happening with the Beagle Board validation images I’ve started to redesign the boot process for BeagleBox.  First, the SD card will be partitioned with two partitions.  The first is the FAT32 partition to hold the kernel image, boot scripts and an initial ramdisk (initrd).  […]

BeagleBox: understanding the boot process requirements