[Soekris] Installing Pyramid on a Net4826

[Mark Nichols]

Yes, I know of the site (and a few others) which got me to this point; which took a while as I am not a whiz with embedded 
Linux, or Linux in general.

Thanks,

Mark 

On Thu Sep  7  8:25 , "Vacio"  sent:

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>In case you haven't seen 
>this, the metrix site has a pretty good discussion on installing pyramid and OS 
>source downloads that have been tested on 4826s.
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>http://pyramid.metrix.net/trac/
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>Good 
>luck,
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>/Rob
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>  -----Original Message-----
>From: 
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>  [mailto:soekris-tech-bounces at lists.soekris.com]On Behalf Of Mark 
>  Nichols
>Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 6:49 AM
>To: 
>  soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com
>Subject: Re: [Soekris] Installing 
>  Pyramid on a Net4826
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>  Derrik & Ron,
>  Thanks for the responses--they are on target with what I was asking, 
>  but:
>  I chroot to /mnt.  Then: sh_3.00#:grub_install '(hd0)'
>  I get back: 
>  sh_3.00#:tempnam: No such file or directory
>  sh_3.00#:/sbin/grub_install: line 386: $log_file: ambiguous redirect
>  And I have to CTRL-C to get the prompt back.  So, is grub-install 
>  looking for a particular file (say in the /boot or /boot/grub directory), or a 
>  partition, which maybe I don't have?
>  Thanks again,
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>Mark Nichols 
>Signal Processing Analytics 
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>www.spanalytics.com 
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>On Thu Sep 7 6:32 , Derrik Pates 
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>  Mark 
>    Nichols wrote:
>> I am trying to install 
>    Pebble/Pyramid onto the boards. I have tftp,
>> dhcp, and httpd running on a host PC. I can wget 
>    the .tar or .img file
>> after 
>    PXELINUX booting. I fdisk /dev/hda, then mkfs.ext2 and mount
>> /dev/hda1 to /mnt. I wget the tarball to /mnt, 
>    and untar. What's
>> next? If I 
>    reboot at this point, the board hangs unless I go to console
>> mode (CTRL-P). I'm missing something (probably 
>    simple) on getting the
>> board to 
>    see grub and boot from the flash.
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>The BIOS doesn't know 
>    anything about partitions or filesystems, so you
>have to install the GRUB 
>    first-stage loader to the MBR of your disk/CF
>card. Probably your best 
>    bet is to chroot into the newly-created root
>filesystem after extracting 
>    the tarball, and run "grub-install '(hd0)'".
>Upon reboot, you should then 
>    be launched into GRUB; if there's a
>menu.lst file in /boot/grub, it will 
>    load that and present you with a
>menu as usual.
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>-- 
>Derrik 
>    Pates
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