[Arm-netbook] debian for mele a1000 / a2000

[Rosimildo DaSilva]

I have not had a chance to try this again.
But, this is a lot more clear.

I am still in doubt what is the real name of the "script.bin" that the
system expects. It seems it can be any name, as long as you use a boot.scr,
but if boot.scr is missing, my guess it is name is "script.bin".

I have seen on the list names such as:

system.bin, evb.bim, mele.bin, script.bin, sys_control.bin, etc.

Rosimildo.


On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Peter Steenbergen <p.steenbergen at j1nx.nl>wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Henrik Nordström <
> henrik at henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
>
>> ons 2012-05-30 klockan 09:46 +0100 skrev lkcl luke:
>>
>> >  hmmm... could someone with debian and the "sfdisk" command please
>> > list the parameters and attach them to the wiki somewhere appropriate?
>> >  sfdisk is the programmer's fdisk and i believe its parameters are
>> > unambiguous.  there would therefore be no further confusion (one might
>> > hope).
>>
>> fdisk is equally unambigious, just remember use the u command to switch
>> to sectors instead of the legacy "cylinders" view.
>>
>> The only rules are
>>
>> a) dont partition space below sector 2048. That area is reserved for
>> uboot.
>>
>> b1) Default fallback boot is that first partition is FAT formatted and
>> have system.bin and uImage contents.
>>
>> b2) Preferred boot method is to look for boot.scr in /boot or / on first
>> partition in extX or FAT format
>>
>>
>> If boot.scr is used then it contains the uboot commands needed for
>> loading kernel (+ initrd) and booting. The uboot shell is enabled so you
>> have rudimentary sh syntax capabilities.
>>
>>
>> As long as you stay within these boundaries then you are free to decide
>> how to partition. Possible layouts are for example
>>
>> 1) Single extX partition, sector 2048-end. boot.scr in /boot with the
>> uboot commands needed for booting.
>>
>> 2) extX partition + swap partition. boot.scr as above.
>>
>> 3) FAT boot partition, extX system partition, optional swap partition.
>> system.bin + uImage in FAT partition. No boot.scr.
>>
>> 4) Any other partition scheme you see fit for your purpose.
>>
>> 5) Reserving even more space and loading kernel from fixed blocks, and
>> use some filesystem not supported by uboot for all partitioned storage.
>>
>> Regards
>> Henrik
>>
>>
>>
> You better start adding that to the wiki ;)
>
> No really. Thanks for this info, very usefull.
>
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