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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 ...

 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development  tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / bootloader / buildroot / cross compiler / ext2 filesystem / free electron / kernel / occam s razor / omap / sd card (updated 4925 days ago)
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

 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 4935 days ago)