[ARMedslack] A quick primer for the PI

[Davide]

I got a friend to lend me a PI  for a week ...
I had a quick look at the community links for slackware on the PI but none really tell me what i want to know:
what does the GPU  look  for in the SD ? (as fas as I know it's the GPU that loads stuff from SD into memory and then passes control to it)
does it look for a second stage boot loader like a uboot image or does it load kernel and initrd ? (bootcode.bin)
I'm supposing that the first partition (the dos one) is where this stuff should be put ?
The content in there looks about right:

root at darkstar:/tmp# fdisk  -l slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.img 

Disk slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.img: 2558 MB, 2558967808 bytes
4 heads, 32 sectors/track, 39046 cylinders, total 4997984 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: 0x00007091

                             Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.img1              32       97663       48816    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.img2           97664      878847      390592   82  Linux swap
slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.img3          878848    15751167     7436160   83  Linux
root at darkstar:/tmp# echo $((32 * 512))
16384
root at darkstar:/tmp# losetup -o 16384 /dev/loop0  slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.img
root at darkstar:/tmp# modprobe vfat
root at darkstar:/tmp# mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/floppy/
root at darkstar:/tmp# ls /mnt/floppy/
COPYING.linux*                  config-raspberrypi-3.2.27*  start.elf*
LICENCE.broadcom*               config.txt*                 start_cd.elf*
System.map-raspberrypi-3.2.27*  fixup.dat*                  zImage-raspberrypi-3.2.27*
bootcode.bin*                   fixup_cd.dat*
cmdline.txt*                    initrd-raspberrypi.img*
root at darkstar:/tmp#


I plan to play a little with a miniroot so I won't need an 8Gb SD :)

ATB
David
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