[Arm-netbook] Any plans to release A distro for the Mele

[Alexandru Stoian]

It seems I'm doing something wrong when adding my modules to the rootfs.
But it's beyond my knowledge. Anyone can help.

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Alexandru Stoian <lgstoian at gmail.com>wrote:

> So I built the kernel and modules using the following commands :
>
> make ARCH=arm sun4i_defconfig
> make ARCH=arm menuconfig
> make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- -j3 uImage
> make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- -j3 INSTALL_MOD_PATH=output modules
> make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- -j3 INSTALL_MOD_PATH=output modules_install
>
>
> The uImage is 3.8 mb and the modules are 5.8. I got no errors doing build. It was built on Debian Squeeze.
>
> The branch is allwinner-v3.0-android-v2.
>
> I used the skeleton sd card image from puppy linux. Copied the uImage on the fat partition and on the ext4 I transfered my rootfs plus modules.
>
> The sd card seem to lock the device up and screen shows no signal.
>
> Any ideas what I could of done wrong?
>
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Alexandru Stoian <lgstoian at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> So what I've done up until now. I decided to make a virtual machine on my
>> workstation as it has power to spare , though I don't like using it for non
>> work related stuff.
>> Got debian squeeze up and running. Installed all the needed tools. I am
>> now downloading the git repository.
>> I've been reading around and guess I got an Idea of what i'm supposed to
>> do.
>> Only one question. Once I build my uImage , do I just copy it to the 16
>> mb fat partition or do I need to do anything else?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:04 AM, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Alexandru Stoian <lgstoian at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I am willing to learn.  Luke
>>>
>>>  great!  ok - well, what OS would you like to get up-and-running
>>> (specifically which version etc.) and then let's see what can be
>>> found, ok?
>>>
>>> > Only machine I have that could run 24/7 would be an old pentium 4.
>>> cnxsoft
>>>
>>>  pffh, i have a 2ghz dual-core only!  and my laptops were never faster
>>> than 1.2ghz.  it's all relative.
>>>
>>> l.
>>>
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