[ARMedslack] Problems with making use of existing Slackware on ARM for Raspberry PI images

[Gregg Levine]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:54 AM,  <stanley at stanleygarvey.com> wrote:
> Hi Gregg
> Sounds like the image is corruped I will chk whn bck frm wrkM
> Did you see a krnel Panic?
> Can you mount the sdcard on your linux pc and see the ext4 fs?
> Refmt in digital camera
> Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
> Sender: armedslack-bounces at lists.armedslack.orgDate: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 16:35:27
> To: <armedslack at lists.armedslack.org>
> Reply-To: Slackware ARM port  <armedslack at lists.armedslack.org>
> Subject: [ARMedslack] Problems with making use of existing Slackware on ARM
>  for Raspberry PI images
>
> Hello!
> At the moment, I have just the SDTV capable set here (Standard
> Definition TV). I managed to get the other guy's image to work
> properly, and even tweaked things so I can see what the device is
> displaying properly. However when I try for example the complete image
> from Stanley Garvey's site, I get the response I'd expect to see on a
> regular system that of a kernel crash because it could not find a
> mount point for the root file system.
>
> I used the DD command to write things to the SDHC card using the form
> of (Without quotes) "#dd if=<file-name> of=/dev/sde" and then waited a
> reasonable amount of time. I also tried it again adding the "bs=1M"
> and "bs=2M" to the command string.
>
> Is there any special, ah. magic to restoring these images to an 8Gig
> SDHC card? (Class 4 since that's the same type as the one that came
> with the device.)
>
> Incidentally I did not try the installer card image because it seems
> to be more with the HDTV present, and mine is waiting for an
> appropriate stand,
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Hello!
Yes to the first three. But no to the last. No camera here who uses
those things.


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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."