Friday, April 4, 2008
Tearing my hair out :-)
Ok my goal today was to install the new file system on the gumstix. I built the file system ok then ran into problems when it came to flashing it to the Gumstix. The method i was going to use was to flash it from the cf card however it doesn't work. This seems to be due to the version of u-boot installed on the Gumstix. This can be updated but theres lots of warnings that it would seriously mess up the gumstix if it goes wrong so im not doin that. Next option is to flash it over serial. My laptop does'nt have a serial connection so i decided to put linux on my pc. Installed ok but then i could'nt use the monitor because it turns out there is some driver conflict or problem with nvidia graphics cards. Its very hard to use computers without monitors. Grrrr! Anyway what i then did was install a virtual machine in xp and am loading a linux image on it. Of course it doesn't have kermit installed. I feel like i've been here before hmmmm. I've lost the will to live at this point so i'll come back to it :-)
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lol, just another day at the office so ;-)
how likely is the u-boot to cause a problem? I'm trying to get an idea of how many gumstix are floating about so we might get our hands on a spare shortly. i'll let you know as soon as there is news.
well it should'nt be necessary to mess with the u boot as it should be fine to just flash over serial once i set everything up. I presume thats how Caitie did it?
no idea how Caitie did it, it might be worth mailing her (and cc'ing me)?
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