Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Still going bald

Ok i think everything that could possibly go wrong at this point has gone wrong so its all up hill from here lol. Had some trouble flashing buildroot yesterday. First filesystem didnt work but i think thats because i didnt pick right format for gumstix. Second one was too big, it has to be less than 16mb. Finally have a proper one just need to flash it over. The annoying thing is all these things take hours. Had to leave buildroot running all night. It also didnt help that my laptop decided to stop working half way through all this. It turns out if the root folder is completely full, then linux cant boot properly. On the plus side i know how to flash the filesystem correctly now, its incredibly simple using hyperterminal in windows, which is what i had anyway to begin with. Aghhh! Ok deep breaths... :-) Also i updated uboot so thats much easier for flashing file system now. Also i had time to go over programming with bluetooth and python again and it seems very straightforward. So for today i need a break from this and will concentrate on my report, but am still determined to get the bluetooth part finished by tomorrow or thursaday!

1 comment:

Lorcan Coyle said...

forgot to say earlier. i found you a spare gumstix. would that speed things along? it's in Matt's desk in the CASL. You can call over and get it whenever.