| 00:01.39 | rwhitby | yes |
| 00:01.50 | rwhitby | make sure you give the -F switch as well |
| 00:02.13 | RobNC | realistically, how long should it take to "make slugosbe"? It took my CentOS 2GHz 1GB RAM machine about 6 hours. That's crazy! |
| 00:02.43 | rwhitby | that's about right. |
| 00:02.51 | rwhitby | (for the first run). |
| 00:03.14 | rwhitby | subsequent runs should be less than 10 minutes depending on what's changed. |
| 00:03.41 | RobNC | rwhitby: thanks yeah that's once I have all the pieces to put together (with -F). Without knowing, does slugimage automatically expand ramdisk.gz to available space (with or without -F)? |
| 00:04.37 | RobNC | yep you're right - just re-ran "make slugosbe" and it took about 5 minutes. |
| 00:07.24 | Sinclair73de | rwhitby: any idea how to make my env-region writeable? Apex reports: env => nor:128k+64k (no-write) |
| 00:08.00 | rwhitby | Sinclair73de: depends how you built apex |
| 00:08.20 | rwhitby | RobNC: slugimage auto expands the final partition to full space |
| 00:08.57 | rwhitby | Sinclair73de: I build mine using the nslu2-linux svn kernel repo makefile, and the config files in there. |
| 00:09.07 | Sinclair73de | Apex 1.5.13 binary from ftp://ftp.buici.com/pub/apex/apex-1.5.13 |
| 00:09.10 | RobNC | rwhitby: thanks, just have to find where the makes puts all the components so I can put that into slugimage |
| 00:09.16 | rwhitby | Binaries are at http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/kernel/ |
| 00:09.29 | rwhitby | RobNC: look in classes/nslu2_image.bbclass |
| 00:10.29 | RobNC | thanks rwhitby I will update wiki instructions! :-) |
| 00:11.01 | rwhitby | RobNC: but you should never need that location, cause you can just unpack a 16mb image |
| 00:11.12 | rwhitby | (using slugimage -F -d -i ...) |
| 00:11.34 | rwhitby | (or is that '-u' for unpack?) |
| 00:11.43 | RobNC | rwhitby: agreed! However, the image that was built for me seems like it didn't have that. |
| 00:11.53 | RobNC | it's -u for unpack you're right |
| 00:11.57 | rwhitby | built by who? |
| 00:12.06 | rwhitby | didn't have what? |
| 00:14.09 | RobNC | built by me by make files, didn't have anything other than RedBoot, sysconf and trailer. That's using "slugimage -d -i slugosbe-4.10-alpha-nslu2-16mb.bin" found in slugos/tmp/deploy/images |
| 00:18.42 | rwhitby | RobNC: you forgot the -F switch |
| 00:19.35 | RobNC | oh I thought that was only in output but input it's needed too? Hmm. Wonder why I couldn't use that file directly and the ObeseSlug instructions as well, saw that eRcOmM message. |
| 00:20.04 | RobNC | BTW, I just did "make update" and had some issue with certificate from openwrt https host, I chose to accept permanently. |
| 00:20.11 | rwhitby | yep |
| 00:22.42 | RobNC | I'll disassemble it again with -F - see what it shows. I should replace with my own config if necessary, but RedBoot was not replaced (as offset starts at 0x600000 I think) |
| 00:23.31 | rwhitby | ok, gotta go work now :-) |
| 00:23.43 | RobNC | You are right about -F. Thanks for your help, have a good day! |
| 00:53.40 | RobNC | This is weird - anyone ever seen slugimage run out of flash space? |
| 00:55.19 | Sinclair73de | ok, env is now writable |
| 00:58.46 | RobNC | good job, make sure u document that in a wiki! :-) |
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| 03:24.04 | RobNC | anyone know why I'd see the "not have eRcOmM" message? I have redboot modified for 16MB access, and using slugosbe image built. Using "slugimage" (with -M) verifies the trailer is there. |
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| 04:42.43 | RobNC | rwhitby: when you return, if you could send me the 16MB-detected RedBoot that works for you. I |
| 04:42.50 | RobNC | I'll then modify wiki with proper instructions |
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| 19:47.41 | ka6sox-work | RobNC, did you get the 16MB slugimage built? |
| 20:10.23 | joshin | So can the Slugs be upgraded to 16MB of flash too? |
| 20:10.48 | joshin | never mind, found the wiki page |
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| 23:11.26 | RobNC | ka6sox: sorry I was away. Got the slugimage built, need to confirm if I can disassemble and re-assemble using slugimage. |
| 23:11.52 | RobNC | joshin: yes called Obese Slug (or FatFlash) |
| 23:13.39 | RobNC | seems like "make openwrt" had problem, for some reason. says to re-run make with V=99 to see what's going on |
| 23:14.32 | RobNC | yeah something wrong with "make -C package/wpa_supplicant compile" |
| 23:16.03 | ka6sox-work | ah. |
| 23:16.34 | RobNC | but note that's different than what I did earlier. Earlier I did "make slugosbe" and tried that image. |
| 23:17.01 | ka6sox-work | right |
| 23:17.14 | ka6sox-work | this one was a Obese Slug image of???? |
| 23:18.13 | RobNC | doing "make update" now... 21 revs since last night. Oh obese slug, or more correctly, FatFlash slug, is automatically built as part of the process for "make slugosbe" and le |
| 23:18.58 | RobNC | gonna try it once update is done |
| 23:21.23 | ka6sox-work | okay so in /temp/deploy/images you have a 16flash version? |
| 23:23.41 | RobNC | crap same problem - 16 bytes too big. Must be a problem in either the build process or slugimage. |
| 23:23.57 | RobNC | yep - it's slugosbe-4.10-alpha-nslu2-16mb.bin |
| 23:25.20 | ka6sox-work | rwhitby is your man for that stuff. |
| 23:26.16 | RobNC | ka6sox yeah I don't want to bug him too much. Unfortunately, he has probably forgotten more than I know about this! |
| 23:26.36 | ka6sox-work | too true... for me too! |
| 23:30.15 | RobNC | Interesting thing is that I have a complicated setup. Oh and the "eRcOmM" message is the trailer in flash. My redboot seems like it has some of the mods necessary, but not all of them, to access 16MB. Rod claims to have it working via hacking RedBoot. My RedBoot does see all 16MB of the flash. |
| 23:30.25 | RobNC | But without the trailers in the right place, no dice. |
| 23:34.52 | RobNC | At least I confirmed my extra 3 USB ports are working. Problem must be with the Debian etch, it wouldn't recognize my external USB HDDs (self-powered). When I flashed with D-I, the kernel sees it but for some reason my debian install doesn't recognize those other ports. Weird... |
| 23:35.51 | ka6sox-work | ya, that is wierd. |
| 23:37.37 | RobNC | I'd like to get away from debian b/c I can't help if that's too bulky b/c designed for desktops with gobs of memory. I'd like to try either openwrt (uclibc) or slugosbe, but for fatslug. BTW, I got upslug2 working but same issue with eRcOmM - so my redboot is broken it seems. |
| 23:37.53 | RobNC | (in regards to accessing 16MB and letting the 2nd stage apex work with that). |
| 23:38.34 | RobNC | (brb) |
| 23:39.24 | ka6sox-work | we should ask rwhitby when he gets around about this...I think that your FIS may be the problem. |
| 23:45.53 | RobNC | yeah but I really have two problems: 1) redboot is not detecting trailer, 2) my build of slugosbe FatFlash, for some reason, cannot be disassembled and assembled back. Problem 2) is a fundamental issue on either the compilation process or the slugimage disassembly/reassembly. |
| 23:46.28 | ka6sox-work | right..I think that there are exactly *2* of these in the world..... |
| 23:46.38 | ka6sox-work | or should I say 10 |
| 23:46.49 | ka6sox-work | pretty soon there will be 3... |
| 23:47.13 | ka6sox-work | okay back laters...I have a 6hr drive now |
| 23:47.23 | joshin | ugh, where does work have you now? |
| 23:48.56 | RobNC | ok good luck and have a good one |