Monthly Archives: October 2010

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

Sat October 23, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged BeagleBox / boot process / bootloader / BUI / DDR / ext2 filesystem / fakeroot / fat32 partition / initial ramdisk / journaling file systems / kernel image / NAND / pivot / root filesystem / sd card / set top box / SGX / STB (updated 4948 days ago)

I fiddled with the u-boot env variables tonight to try and resolve the S-Video problem. One trick from the BeagleBoard mailing list said to set omapfb.mode=tv:ntsc and omapdss.def_disp=tv. I tried this but found that if I tried to run the boot manually to pick up these changes to the bootargs […]

BeagleBox: which u-boot am I fiddling with?

Tue October 19, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux tagged angstrom / beagleboard / BeagleBox / NTSC / omapfb / S-Video / sd card (updated 4950 days ago)

All the parts arrived by last Tuesday and I was able to boot the board using the validation images. I explored the u-boot environment and dug around the root file system to see what the BeagleBoard folks had put together. I booted the board using the serial console and connected […]

BeagleBox: reality sets in – boot issues

Sun October 17, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / TV tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / boot process / BUI / buildroot / DSS / dvi / Linux / LPDDR / mplayer / NTSC / omap / root filesystem / S-Video / sd card / SGX / Video (updated 4952 days ago)

Most of the ordered parts have arrive, including the BeagleBoard. Man, is that a tiny board for so much capability! I can’t wait to bring it up. Still waiting on the USB hub and 1G SD card. I had to move a 25-in-1 USB-based card reader from my main development […]

BeagleBox: parts arriving

Sun October 10, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / TV tagged 1g sd card / Â BeagleBoard / ATX / beagleboard / BeagleBox / LPDDR / NAND / NOR / S-Video / SDRAM / set top box / south park / Video

Taking a break from nerdom for a moment… I just posted pics from my garden this year. Despite warm temperatures not arriving till June, the garden flourished with a hot, dry ending that went all the way up to this week (second week of October). So the coleus and veggies […]

2010 Garden wrap up

Sun October 10, 2010 in General / Personal tagged coleus / garden gallery

I ported over Angstrom’s recipe for the SGX libraries into the BeagleBox build this week. It requires downloading the SGX SDK and unpacking it manually before you do the build. Angstrom will unpack it for you. And at the moment I’m not positive the layout I’ve created is completely correct […]