- Use one host to build a package group of Rascal-specific binary packages.
- Upload those packages to http://rascalmicro.com/repos/rascal-base
- On a target host, install Arch Linux ARM
- On the same target host, use pacman to download and install the package group.
From http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/ti/beaglebone-black
Check in dmesg what device your SD card is. Unmount the card if it gets automounted.
fdisk /dev/sdc
At the fdisk prompt, delete old partitions and create a new one:
Type o. This will clear out any partitions on the drive.
Type p to list partitions. There should be no partitions left.
Now type n, then p for primary, 1 for the first partition on the drive, enter to accept the default first sector, then +64M to set the size to 64MB.
Type t to change the partition type, then e to set it to W95 FAT16 (LBA).
Type a to set the bootable flag, then 1 for the first partition.
Now type n, then p for primary, 2 for the second partition on the drive, and enter twice to select the default first and last sectors.
Write and exit by typing w.
That's the end of fdisk.
Create the FAT16 filesystem: mkfs.vfat -F 16 /dev/sdc1
Create the ext4 filesystem: mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc2
Download the BeagleBone bootloader tarball and extract the files onto the first partition of the SD card. These files contain the bootloaders needed to load the kernel. The file MLO needs to be the first file put onto the FAT partition, and extracting the tarball as-is should do this for you. If you have problems getting to U-Boot, re-format and place the files manually.
mkdir /media/boot
mount /dev/sdc1 /media/boot
tar xvf BeagleBone-bootloader.tar.gz -C /media/boot
umount /media/boot
The tar line above will throw a bunch of errors about Cannot change ownership to uid 1001, gid 1001. This can be safely ignored; it just happens because the FAT16 filesystem doesn't have uid and gid settings, so you can't set them.
Download the root filesystem tarball and extract it (as root, not via sudo) to the ext3 partition on either the SD card or the USB drive. It is important to do this as root, as special files need to be created as part of the filesystem that can only be created by root.
mkdir /media/root
mount /dev/sdc2 /media/root
tar xf ArchLinuxARM-am33x-latest.tar.gz -C /media/root
umount /media/root
Then, connect via FTDI serial cable do a few things to make stuff work better.
screen /dev/tty.usbserial-A4013ENA 115200
Log in with credentials root/root.
Set root password.
passwd
Update packages (will update to 3.8.13-22 kernel (or newer?))
[root@alarm ~]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 194.0 KiB 980K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
extra 2.0 MiB 2.11M/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
community 2.3 MiB 1816K/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
alarm 58.0 KiB 3.33M/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
aur 63.3 KiB 3.25M/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Packages (9): device-mapper-2.02.106-2 gawk-4.1.1-1
linux-am33x-legacy-3.8.13-22 linux-api-headers-3.14.1-1
lvm2-2.02.106-2 man-pages-3.66-1 ntp-4.2.7.p441-1
pacman-4.1.2-6 psmisc-22.21-2
Total Download Size: 25.68 MiB
Total Installed Size: 41.16 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 2.60 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
:: Retrieving packages ...
device-mapper-2.02.... 162.3 KiB 854K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
gawk-4.1.1-1-armv7h 865.3 KiB 2.07M/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
linux-am33x-legacy-... 15.9 MiB 2.21M/s 00:07 [######################] 100%
linux-api-headers-3... 701.6 KiB 833K/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
lvm2-2.02.106-2-armv7h 740.2 KiB 386K/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
man-pages-3.66-1-any 5.2 MiB 1014K/s 00:05 [######################] 100%
pacman-4.1.2-6-armv7h 561.4 KiB 428K/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
psmisc-22.21-2-armv7h 98.8 KiB 365K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
ntp-4.2.7.p441-1-armv7h 1618.1 KiB 530K/s 00:03 [######################] 100%
(9/9) checking keys in keyring [######################] 100%
(9/9) checking package integrity [######################] 100%
(9/9) loading package files [######################] 100%
(9/9) checking for file conflicts [######################] 100%
(9/9) checking available disk space [######################] 100%
(1/9) upgrading device-mapper [######################] 100%
(2/9) upgrading gawk [######################] 100%
(3/9) upgrading linux-am33x-legacy [######################] 100%
>>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
(4/9) upgrading linux-api-headers [######################] 100%
(5/9) upgrading lvm2 [######################] 100%
(6/9) upgrading man-pages [######################] 100%
(7/9) upgrading ntp [######################] 100%
(8/9) upgrading pacman [######################] 100%
(9/9) upgrading psmisc [######################] 100%
synchronizing filesystem...
Note: the upgrade above failed on the first attempt. It seems that what happened was that the SD card timed out while trying to write the new kernel, which led to a kernel panic. On the second attempt, it worked. The only difference I could find was that I upgraded Avahi (as below) before doing the full system upgrade.
Successfully rebooted with new kernel.
Install Avahi.
pacman -S avahi nss-mdns
systemctl restart dbus
systemctl enable avahi-daemon.service
Avahi won't start successfully
Edit /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf from:
#use-iff-running=no enable-dbus=yes disallow-other-stacks=no
to:
#use-iff-running=no enable-dbus=yes
disallow-other-stacks=yes
Still fails on startup.
Change the hostname.
nano /etc/hostname
- Create PKGBUILDS for packages.
- Set groups array in each PKGBUILD:
groups=('rascal-base') makepkgfor all PKGBUILDS- Use repo-add to generate repo database:
repo-add /path/to/repo.db.tar.gz /path/to/*.pkg.tar.xz - Upload repo database and .pkg.tar.xz files to repo server
- Download
ArchLinuxARM-YYYY.MM-am33x-rootfs.tar.gzfrom http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/omap/ - Download
Beaglebone-bootloader.tar.gzfrom the same directory. - Burn to SD card, as described in subroutine above: "setting up Arch Linux on an SD card"
- Put card in target and boot, holding down S2 to force SD card boot.
- Change hostname?
- Add repo to
/etc/pacman.conf
Like this:
[repo-name]
Server = http://rascalmicro.com/repos/rascal-base
SigLevel = Optional
(Change SigLevel to Required later.)
pacman -S rascal-base
This will include (tentatively):
- blinkm
- demos
- pytronics
- red
Install a bunch of other packages (if needed?)
https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/tree/master
- core/binutils (gcc depends on this)
- core/gcc
- extra/python
- extra/ruby
Packages with a weird mesagl dependency? Also one requires X11 stuff.
- extra/ffmpeg
- extra/imagemagick
- extra/opencv
(maybe already installed by default?)
** From the community repo **
- community/ack
- community/i2c-tools (ACCH! Depends on Python 2!)
- community/iotop (ACCH! Depends on Python 2! But has been ported to Python 3.)
- community/iperf
- community/ipython (pulls in SQLite)
- community/python-flask
- community/python2-gevent (need Python 3 port?)
- community/python-greenlet
- community/python-jinja
- community/python-markdown
- community/python-matplotlib (mesa-libgl will pull in X11)
- community/python-pillow
- community/python-pyserial
- community/python-scipy
- community/python-simplejson
- community/python-sqlalchemy
- community/python-werkzeug
- community/sysstat
- community/uwsgi (ACCH! need Python 2 (but successfully installed with pip))
- community/uwsgi-plugin-python (or python2?) (but successfully installed with pip as part of uwsgi)
** From the core repo **
Already installed by default
- core/curl
- core/logrotate
- core/nano
- core/openssh
- core/perl
- core/usbutils
Need to be installed
- core/gcc-fortran
- core/make
- core/libevent (for websockets. Optional dep: "python2: to use event_rpcgen.py")
- core/wireless_tools (note the underscore)
** From the extra repo **
- extra/avahi
- extra/git
- extra/gpsd (ACCH! depends on Python 2)
- extra/htop
- extra/lsof
- extra/mtr
- extra/nginx
- extra/nss-mdns
- extra/ntp (installed by pacman -Syu ?)
- extra/python-numpy
- extra/python-pip
- extra/vim
- extra/zsh
** From Arch User Repository **
- python2-daemon (need to figure out how to install existing Py3k port of Supervisor, then fix Rascal docs)
- python-flask-login
Unknown source, maybe part of an existing package?
- openssh-sftp-server?
- usb-gadget-mode?
synchronizing filesystem...
[ 6780.501496] INFO: task pacman:424 blocked for more than 60 seconds.
[ 6780.508121] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[ 6780.516520] Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task: blocked tasks
[ 6780.522811] [<c00132d8>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xe0) from [<c05f4070>] (panic+0x84/0x1d4)
[ 6780.531368] [<c05f4070>] (panic+0x84/0x1d4) from [<c0093058>] (watchdog+0x210/0x248)
[ 6780.539479] [<c0093058>] (watchdog+0x210/0x248) from [<c00599b0>] (kthread+0xa0/0xac)
[ 6780.547670] [<c00599b0>] (kthread+0xa0/0xac) from [<c000d6f8>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)
[ 6780.556131] drm_kms_helper: panic occurred, switching back to text console
Results in:
Booting from mmc ...
Wrong Image Format for bootm command
ERROR: can't get kernel image!
U-Boot#
Put the SD card in USB adapter on Ubuntu laptop, and it mounted fine. Then rebooted, and whatever went wrong is now fixed. Hmmmmm.
MESA-libgl X11 dependency problem
- ALA-extra/ffmpeg
- ALA-extra/imagemagick
- ALA-extra/opencv
- community/python-matplotlib (mesa-libgl will pull in X11)
Python 2 deps
- community/i2c-tools (ACCH! Depends on Python 2!)
- community/iotop (ACCH! Depends on Python 2! But has been ported to Python 3.)
- community/uwsgi (but successfully installed with pip)
- community/uwsgi-plugin-python (or python2?) (but successfully installed with pip as part of uwsgi)
- AUR/python2-daemon
- extra/gpsd (depends on Python 2)
Need AUR
- AUR/python-flask-login