BeagleBoardUbuntu

Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha seems to be working quite well so here's a quick doc. Eventually this will probably be moved to ubuntu's wiki...

This page is about running a (ARM EABI) Ubuntu distribution at BeagleBoard. BeagleBoard will boot the (ARM EABI) Ubuntu distribution from SD card.

= Ubuntu Rootfs Install = Use Oliver's script located here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RootfsFromScratch

PC: Built Root file system
Requirements: sudo apt-get install qemu

wget http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_1.0.10ubuntu3_all.deb sudo dpkg -i debo* wget http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogra/arm/build-arm-rootfs sudo chmod u+x build-arm-rootfs

sudo ./build-arm-rootfs --fqdn --login --password --imagesize --seed

lxde Destktop sudo ./build-arm-rootfs --fqdn beagleboard --login ubuntu --password temppwd --imagesize 2G --seed lxde,gdm

Xubuntu Desktop sudo ./build-arm-rootfs --fqdn beagleboard --login ubuntu --password temppwd --imagesize 2G --seed xubuntu-desktop

Ubuntu Desktop sudo ./build-arm-rootfs --fqdn beagleboard --login ubuntu --password temppwd --imagesize 3G --seed ubuntu-desktop

PC: Format SD Card
You will need a 1GB SD card or greater. Standard System : ~xxxMB + Desktop environment (GNOME) : ~x.xGB

Starting with an empty SD card and using gparted, create: 50 MiB Primary Partition, fat32 Rest as ext2/ext3

PC: Setup SD uboot/uImage Partition
Mount your SD card fat32 partition. (/media/disk/)

cd /media/disk/ wget http://www.rcn-ee.com/deb/kernel/CC-v2.6.28-9a6536c-oer8 mv CC-v2.6.28-9a6536c-oer8 uImage

PC: Setup SD ext2/ext3 Partition
Mount your SD ext2/ext3 partition. (/media/disk/)

cd /media/disk/ * (i modified Oliver's script so it's running as his now to complete this section) * sudo tar x(j)fp armel*.tar.* -C /media/disk * *

Beagleboard
Mount SD card For Kernel 2.6.28 with DSS2 setenv bootcmd 'mmcinit; fatload mmc 0:1 0x80300000 uImage; bootm 0x80300000' setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=2 rootfstype=ext3 ro omap-dss.def_disp=lcd omapfb.video_mode=1280x720MR-24@60' saveenv boot

Note: rootfstype=extX must match your format of the ext2/ext3 partition

Login & Install kernel-image
cd /home/ sudo apt-get install uboot-mkimage wget http://www.rcn-ee.com/deb/kernel/beagle/jaunty/v2.6.28-79d042a-oer10/linux-image-2.6.28-oer10_1.0jaunty_armel.deb sudo dpkg -i linux-image*

Extract linux-image's vmlinuz-* dpkg -x linux-image* ./temp

Mount fat32 partition sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt

Build uboot compatible image and copy to fat32 boot partition sudo mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x80008000 -e 0x80008000 -n "Linux" -d ./temp/boot/vmlinuz-* /mnt/uImage

Clean up rm -rfd temp

Sync, umount Partitions and Reboot