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

Gregg Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 22:13:00 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:49 PM, stanley garvey
<stanley at stanleygarvey.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 7, 2013 21:09 "stanley garvey" <stanley at stanleygarvey.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 7, 2013 20:37 "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:31 PM, stanley garvey
> <stanley at stanleygarvey.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 7, 2013 20:15 "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:29 PM, stanley garvey
> <stanley at stanleygarvey.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 7, 2013 15:58 "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:55 AM, stanley garvey
> <stanley at stanleygarvey.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 7, 2013 15:03 "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:54 AM, <stanley at stanleygarvey.com> wrote:
> <Snip>
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> Hello!
> I think from Rsync function. I'll retrieve it again and from your
> website. I'll know more later.
>
> Hi, just checked all files are identical:
> bash-4.1# md5sum SlackwareArm-14.0-8GB-20121201.zip
> 1dd852334977d734e5ff833ecacface9 SlackwareArm-14.0-8GB-20121201.zip (local
> copy)
>
> bash-4.1# md5sum SlackwareArm-14.0-8GB-20121201.zip
> 1dd852334977d734e5ff833ecacface9 SlackwareArm-14.0-8GB-20121201.zip (Danish
> server powered by windmills)
>
> Suggest you re-download the zip file and do:
> md5sum SlackwareArm-14.0-8GB-20121201.zip
> to check integrity.
> regards
> Stanley.
>
>
> Hello!
> Now it is getting baroque, I just ran the command against both a new
> file (downloaded today) and one that did cause the problems. The
> command returns the same hash codes.
>
> I'll try again momentarily.
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>
> Blimey, I like baroque, somethings obviously baroque, but I cant think what
> it can be, if you live in Warwickshire I would cycle around and fix it for
> you! I Guess you don't? are you confusing a kernel panic will the annoying
> message from Pat regarding the file system being read/write? try pressing
> enter.
> With kind regards,
> Stanley.
>
>
> Hello!
> I see your point. I really do. This is indeed a kernel panic as the
> system starts to panic when it can't find and mount the root file
> system. Not the classic one regarding the file system being
> read/write.
>
> But I'll try again and see what happens next.
>
> Let me Know, as I have spent the last day testing the Image on 4 Raspberry
> PI boards 2x revision 1 256 mb and 2 x revision 2 512mb boards all 2x2 from
> RS 2x2 From farnell and I can still not replicate the error. Normally a
> kernel panic of the type you desribe is caused by the kernel modules for the
> ext4 fs not being loaded. The kernel provided requires no modules to boot,
> all FS modules being built in, you can even use the image as an installer,
> just uncomment the lines in config.txt relating to the initrd.
> I am starting to think that your sd card is clobbered, why not try to
> retrive the image with dd and then compare it with the file you wrote to the
> card?
> As for the difference with sdtv and hdtv all can be set in the config.txt I
> have tested the image on old tellys, monitors (using a hdmi to vga adaptor)
> both wide and 4:3 and HDTVs and all works as expected HDTV is better SDTV is
> a little crampt.
> once again good luck.
> Regards
> Stanley

Hello!
Interesting thought.

So what did you use for both making your images? And then writing them
to SD cards?

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