I haven’t post on my blog for quite some time now. But I began the new year by resuming my work on embedded devices. This time is about installing Frugalware on a Raspberry Pi.
The first step is to properly partionning your SD card. The Raspberry Pi bootloader can boot only from a FAT32 partition, so we need one. Also we need another partition to contain our Frugalware installation and optionnally a swap partition. As an example, I have the following.
Disk /dev/sdb: 31.9 GB, 31914983424 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 30436 cylinders, total 62333952 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000f1e37 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 2048 749567 373760 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sdb2 749568 2846719 1048576 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb3 2846720 62332927 29743104 83 Linux
Now mount your linux partition (in my case /dev/sdb3) and the FAT partition (/dev/sdb1) as “/boot” and extract the following tarball into it.
Another solution is to perform a chroot installation but this require another arm device. In this case you need to add the repo armkernels and install the proper kernel for the Raspberry-pi from it (named kernel-raspberrypi). Otherwise follow the instructions provided here. Copy the content of your boot directory to the FAT partition (or mount your FAT partition as the /boot one before performing the installation). Finally, add a file named “cmdline.txt” into the FAT partition to specify the kernel boot commands like this :
dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait
NB: In my case, my linux partition is the third one (/dev/sdb3) and is of type ext4, so I used “root=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rootfstype=ext4”.
PS: I will upload the script used to create the tarball here as soon as I get internet back @ home.
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