debian on OpenRD Client

[Anders Fluur]

Hi,

I have some problems installing debian on my OpenRD Client (A0) with an attached USB disk.

Installing using the debian installer works quite god until late in the procedure where it hangs indefenitely. (In "setting up users" for example)
There is one problem before this. I have to exit to shell and install and run ntpdate because there is som clock related problems on the board (revision A0)

Any ideas what makes debian installer stop working? Is the USB disk the problem? The SD card does not seem to be a recognised  installation option!

Best regards
Anders

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Anders Fluur <anders@...> [2009-10-27 08:52]:
> Installing using the debian installer works quite god until late in the
> procedure where it hangs indefenitely. (In "setting up users" for example)

So it doesn't hang at the same point all the time?  How reproducible
is this?

I installed on the OpenRD-Client a few weeks ago without any problems.

> There is one problem before this. I have to exit to shell and install and
> run ntpdate because there is som clock related problems on the board
> (revision A0)

Can you describe that clock problem some more?

> Any ideas what makes debian installer stop working? Is the USB disk the
> problem? The SD card does not seem to be a recognised  installation option!

iirc SD is not initialized by the kernel yet.
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[Anders Fluur]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...> wrote:

* Anders Fluur <anders@...> [2009-10-27 08:52]:

> Installing using the debian installer works quite god until late in the
> procedure where it hangs indefenitely. (In "setting up users" for example)

So it doesn't hang at the same point all the time?  How reproducible
is this?

It has happened twice. I've tried modifying the Sheevaplug root FS with OpenRD client kernel instead, but failed so far.

I installed on the OpenRD-Client a few weeks ago without any problems.

Do you have an A0 as well?

> There is one problem before this. I have to exit to shell and install and
> run ntpdate because there is som clock related problems on the board
> (revision A0)

Can you describe that clock problem some more?

Everytime I have started the box it's time is 1954 something. When running the Debian installer, some validation of the busybox package fails because of this.
When Googling for the problem I found the solution was to exit to shell and install and run ntpdate

> Any ideas what makes debian installer stop working? Is the USB disk the
> problem? The SD card does not seem to be a recognised  installation option!

iirc SD is not initialized by the kernel yet.
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[Anders Fluur]

I solved this problem, having done the following changes to the procedure:

* After exit to shell and running ntpdate, I did not continue with unclean system. Instead I returned to the disk partitioning menu and re-formatted the root partition.
* I fetched a new uImage and uInitrd dated 091028.
* I made the swap partition into a primary partition. (The previous was a logical one as Ubuntu does by default)

I would guess the first change in the list was the solution.
Unfortunately I still have the clock problem. After reboot of the OpenRD client, with debian installed, the clock is back to 1954.

Thanks
Anders

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...> [2009-10-27 20:54]:
> > Any ideas what makes debian installer stop working? Is the USB disk the
> > problem? The SD card does not seem to be a recognised  installation option!
>
> iirc SD is not initialized by the kernel yet.

I just looked at the status of this.  There are two problems:

1) SD on OpenRD doesn't work with the mainline kernel.  Someone
proposed patches and I just asked  about the status:
http://groups.google.com/group/openrd/browse_thread/thread/11d598c423f542f7

2) The default u-boot shipped with the OpenRD doesn't have SD support,
but one that does was posted a few days ago:
http://groups.google.com/group/openrd/browse_thread/thread/7e204d6c9087305e

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