| 11:53 | Rond | hi, my cubox-i freezes about 1 minute after boot since an xbian update |
| 11:54 | Rond | could anyone kindly give me any heads-up to diagnose this? |
| 11:55 | Rond | the update included a kernel upgrade |
| 11:59 | cbxbiker61 | Rond, best to get the serial connected and watch the console messages |
| 12:01 | kasvain | i also have problems booting a 3.6.9 stock kernel provided with ubuntu 12, still unable to get this v1 cubox work |
| 12:02 | kasvain | using only serial connection, after "Loading kernel..." it jams |
| 12:02 | Rond | I can ssh into it until it freezes |
| 12:02 | cbxbiker61 | no message on the console after hang? |
| 12:03 | Rond | also there's been another linux-image-armmp update, but there's never enough time to get it installed |
| 12:03 | Rond | nope, no message |
| 12:03 | cbxbiker61 | does that system use systemd? |
| 12:04 | cbxbiker61 | if so, you can create /var/log/journal, and it will keep messages across reboots, sometimes you can find something in the system journal that way |
| 12:05 | kasvain | cbxbiker61: that systemd is also a weird thing i'd like to know an answer - is systemd working with cubox, did a symlink just in case |
| 12:05 | kasvain | if it updates it by accident |
| 12:06 | cbxbiker61 | cat /proc/1/cmdline will show you which process is managing the system |
| 12:07 | cbxbiker61 | i use systemd on all of my systems, big and small |
| 12:08 | Rond | I just managed to downgrade to 3.16.0 |
| 12:08 | Rond | gonna see if it works okay |
| 12:10 | kasvain | cbxbiker61: any idea on one problem i have |
| 12:10 | kasvain | manage to install ubuntu 12 and it boots for first time |
| 12:10 | kasvain | only distro i can get to boot somehow :o |
| 12:11 | kasvain | did i install something or not, next boot it does not load kernel, i've still have no idea what makes it |
| 12:12 | kasvain | when looking to boot.scr, seems it have like 30+ weird characters on the beginning of the first line, so i modified it to look like boot.txt |
| 12:12 | kasvain | both files are now identical |
| 12:13 | cbxbiker61 | no! that stuff at the beginning is critical |
| 12:13 | kasvain | looks like boot.scr is corrupted in the stock ubuntu image |
| 12:13 | Rond | hmm, I'm getting "update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-armmp gzip: stdout: No space left on device" while installing linux-image-armmp |
| 12:13 | cbxbiker61 | you have to run a utility to regenerate the .scr file |
| 12:13 | cbxbiker61 | modify .txt, run utility to generate .scr |
| 12:13 | kasvain | cbxbiker61: hmm, ok, does boot.txt have to include also that same stuff? any idea what is the utility called |
| 12:14 | cbxbiker61 | |
| 12:14 | cbxbiker61 | mkimage -A arm -O linux -T script \ |
| 12:14 | cbxbiker61 | -C none -a 0 -e 0 -n 'Execute uImage.bin' -d $1 $(basename $1 .cmd).scr |
| 12:14 | kasvain | i see, so that how its made. golden info, ty much |
| 12:14 | cbxbiker61 | that's a snippet of of a script i use |
| 12:15 | kasvain | i've been battling with this device for over 8 months now, hope i someday get this work |
| 12:15 | cbxbiker61 | i use .cmd for the clean text |
| 12:15 | kasvain | at first the bootloader was bricked...loads from wrong area |
| 12:15 | kasvain | managed to sf write some version of u-boot at u-boot shell |
| 12:16 | kasvain | then managed to get the off.installer run, but only os installation that works, is ubuntu 12 |
| 12:16 | cbxbiker61 | yes, the v1 was more confusing, and we have a tendency to forget the little details |
| 12:16 | kasvain | also, artox provided some good, new image of a debian i'd like to use, but this first gen cubox does not boot it somehow :o |
| 12:17 | kasvain | he told malte_ might have answers for me |
| 12:17 | cbxbiker61 | on my v1 boxes, i have the .cmd/.scr point at a kernel, then between versions all i do is symlink the new kernel to the generic name |
| 12:18 | kasvain | i don't know is this single or dual core, but this seeme to have 1gb of ram |
| 12:18 | cbxbiker61 | so i don't mess with .cmd/.scr any more |
| 12:19 | kasvain | ok. any ideas how i can get the latest jessie image boot? i bet i might have wrong memory area set in uboot |
| 12:19 | kasvain | i can write it successfully, i have 4gb SD |
| 12:19 | cbxbiker61 | i don't use "standard" distros |
| 12:19 | kasvain | it starts to load a kernel, but hangs |
| 12:24 | kasvain | Artox's supplied link for a jessie image is the only one that succeeds to load the kernel by default |
| 12:25 | kasvain | but still, it hangs somewhy |
| 12:26 | kasvain | all other images won't boot but original installer's ubuntu 12 and that raw image of jessie |
| 12:26 | kasvain | i have serial connection only |
| 12:26 | cbxbiker61 | best talk to artox |
| 13:08 | Rond | dang, I'm getting "file not found zimage" after the latest apt-get upgrade |
| 13:39 | Rond | turns out initramfs.gz.old took up all the space on boot partition |
| 13:39 | Rond | and stuff got lost during the installation |
| 14:18 | kasvain | ok - 0.01BTC bounty for one who helps me get this 1st gen cubox boot a kernel binary from latest jessie package |
| 14:19 | kasvain | so tired of this fight making a simple basic thing happen |
| 14:21 | kasvain | only binary that loads this far is the one from fat formatted stick and it works until second boot it does not find anything from any loadaddr |
| 14:21 | kasvain | documentation on the internet is so bad that it does not help at all. only for later cubox models |
| 14:22 | kasvain | looked for almost every thread on forums but no help this far - can't get what im doing wrong or is the u-boot broken |
| 14:45 | Artox | kasvain: Greetings |
| 14:45 | kasvain | hi |
| 14:45 | kasvain | you want to apply for the bounty |
| 14:45 | kasvain | ? |
| 14:45 | kasvain | seems official support is not interested |
| 14:46 | kasvain | if i'd make a product, i'd give support |
| 14:46 | Artox | as you know, I dont have one of those cuboxes |
| 14:46 | kasvain | yeah, i remember, we talked about this |
| 14:46 | Artox | I've asked malte for access to the old wiki, but its still unavailable |
| 14:47 | Artox | its probably not hard to get it working again, as far as I know you can run a mainline kernel just fine |
| 14:47 | kasvain | i've been a bit disappointed, company who made this does not have any kind of documentation available. just 404's and stuff |
| 14:48 | Artox | I know they removed the docs because their wiki was insecure and constantly exploited for spam |
| 14:48 | kasvain | including the installer but hte ubuntu 12 part in it |
| 14:48 | kasvain | i see |
| 14:49 | kasvain | what im doing now, is to extract IgorPec's kernel from his jessie image and try to load it |
| 14:49 | kasvain | dunno what next, also trying to burn newer image since this have 4mb flash i was able to burn the older spi |
| 14:50 | Artox | igorpec is makign debian for imx6 |
| 14:50 | Artox | not armada |
| 14:51 | Artox | he isnt using any special kernel, but the solidrun 3.14 one |
| 14:51 | Artox | I dont think you need to replaceyour bootloader |
| 14:51 | kasvain | at least i can set the loadaddr |
| 14:51 | kasvain | and save it |
| 14:51 | kasvain | with the current one |