debootstrap boot with grub/grub.efi

[kroonen]

Hi,

I'm curious about howto bootstrap an o2 joggler.

I want to install wheezy, so I make a bootstrap image and I can compile the kernel with de kernel options and patches provided bij de ubuntu page form buzz

So that I have the bootstrap image and the kernel installed in this image

Now the part of the grub en grub.efi, how can I let it boot???

Can I just copy de vfat patrition of buzz (ubuntu) to my first paritition, or must the grud.efi be something special?? Compiled with the grub version of wheezy???

regards Richard

[Wilberforce]

The process you dessribed sounds about right. You can use grub.efi from someone elses build - just replace the initrd and kernel image with your own and change the mount points in grub.cfg.

You may want to check out:

http://joggler.exotica.org.uk/source/

Buzz has scripted his process (so you should just be able to adapt that)

[kroonen]

Well first thing I wanted to download the kernel and patch it.

I downloaded the kernel into /usr/src and extract is there /usr/src/linux-3.2.20

i also mad symb link linux -> linux-3.2.20

I downloaded in /usr/src 3.2.20joggler1.patch

then in /usr/src I execute the patch but it fails, what goes wrong????

usr/src# patch -p0 -i 3.2.20joggler1.patch
can't find file to patch at input line 5
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-isch.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-isch.c
|index 0682f8f..f1cb3ae 100644
|--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-isch.c
|+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-isch.c
--------------------------
File to patch:

Richard

[kroonen]

found


root@dedwheez:/usr/src/linux# patch -p1 < ../3.2.20joggler1.patch
patching file drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-isch.c
patching file drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig
patching file drivers/video/backlight/Makefile
patching file drivers/video/backlight/openframe_bl.c
patching file scripts/setlocalversion
patching file sound/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c

[kroonen]

Well it worked pretty good, debian wheezy is running, with kernel 3.2.20 it worked, without X.

Now I want to have x installed, but there are no emgd drivers for xserver 1.12.

So I took an new kernel (3.5.4) with the the poulsbo driver compiled.

I tried the patch for 3.2.20 but many errors.

I still compiled and installed the 3.5.4 kernel to test the poulsbo driver. The X server nog works but the sound is crappy ofcourse because the patch failed.

The question is who can change the patches to wokr with kernels 3.5 and above?

regards Richard

[BuZz]

I probably can, but I won't be looking at newer kernels until the emgd driver supports them. as an alternative you could use to have emgd on debian, would be to build / get hold of a set of older xserver packages.

why not do a debootstrap of ubuntu base - close to debian in many respects - and you get the benefit of my existing packages for the joggler without having to rebuild them. my already provided base image is built from via debootstrap.

[Juggler]

kroonen, could you share what you have made with the community here ?

I'd love to try out what you have made ! It sounds really interesting.

[roobarb!]

I should probably mention that the kernels I use for sqpOS are here; they're based on BuZz's kernel config and patches, with just a few tweaks in the 3.2.30jog3 version to support the OpenFrame 2 and ath9k_htc (for WNDA3200 replacement wifi stick).

[kroonen]

Well status for now.

Debootstrap and booting works with debain wheezy. I used the grub files from buzz.

I found patches for kernel 3.3.7
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57178

Thes work and I enabled the intel gma kernel driver.

Now after installx server it works out of the box and also the tocuhscreen.

Tried e17 with tablet interface and on screenkeyboard works.

I havn't tried multimedia etc. but the audio works.

I don't know if there more interest in putting your own debian on a joggler, else I will make a small howto, and open a new topic here

Richard

[roobarb!]

You'll probably not have hardware video acceleration working on that, though - I don't believe the kernel drivers for the GMA500 support this yet. Also, watch out for your kernel version; 3.3.x is end-of-life now, while 3.2.x is still under development.

[Juggler]

Well status for now.

Debootstrap and booting works with debain wheezy. I used the grub files from buzz.

I found patches for kernel 3.3.7
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57178

Thes work and I enabled the intel gma kernel driver.

Now after installx server it works out of the box and also the tocuhscreen.

Tried e17 with tablet interface and on screenkeyboard works.

I havn't tried multimedia etc. but the audio works.

I don't know if there more interest in putting your own debian on a joggler, else I will make a small howto, and open a new topic here

Richard

If you could do a howto, that would be great !

I was wondering if you could make some images of the work you have done too ( or whatever would be most appropriate ) so we could try out what you have done ? Even if it is on the rough side, that would be fine. As far as I am concerned there would be no expectation of answering questions/support from you, unless you wanted to.