[Soekris] Installing Pyramid on a Net4826

[Frederico Marques]

Hi Mark,

Check if you have this file:

/mnt/sbin/grub-setup.sh

chroot /mnt ; /sbin/grub-setup.sh

In case you don't have it:

pyramid:/sbin# cat grub-setup.sh
#This is a script to setup grub during PXE boot of Soekris 4XXX device
#It creates some required devices for the initial boot and installs grub
cd /dev
mknod console c 5 1
mknod tty0 c 4 0
mknod hda b 3 0
mknod hda1 b 3 1
cat /boot/grub/grub-script | /sbin/grub

Hope it works for you,

--fred

--On September 7, 2006 9:30:25 AM -0500 Mark Nichols 
<mnichols at spanalytics.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>  
>> http://pyramid.metrix.net/trac/
>>  
>> Good
>> luck,
>>  
>> /Rob
>>  
>>  
>>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>>  soekris-tech-bounces at lists.soekris.com
>>  [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
>>
>>
>>  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,
>>
>> Mark Nichols
>> Signal Processing Analytics
>> (804)
>>  364-1050
>> www.spanalytics.com
>>
>> On Thu Sep 7 6:32 , Derrik Pates
>>  sent:
>>
>>
>>  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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Derrik
>>    Pates
>> javascript:top.opencompose('demon at devrandom.net','','','')
>>
>>
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