Install Ubuntu on Tiny210

Hi I'm trying to install Ubuntu on the board Tiny210, if I follow the guide
below:

http://armworks.cc/index.php?title=Mini210S_ubuntu_sd

the following happens.
Once you have created the SD card by following the procedure, I insert in
my Tiny210 and turn it on, delete the old image and then install the kernel
emits the double beep as if he had done ... but ubuntu is not installed.
So of course in the end I find myself using the card that does a continuous
reboot.

According to you, where am I wrong?

A greeting and thank you to all who help me some.
Lyuck

you write the kernel to the nand, the ubuntu rootfs should be on the SD
card.

Once you've burnt the kernel to nand, you switch s2 to boot from nand,
leave the SD card in the socket and it should boot.

Hello, thank you for your reply,
but today I did nothing all day does not begin to understand why I do not
understand.
Install the kernel, S2 septum of nand I turn on my linux iconda appears in
the top left corner and nothing. from a little later you see the screen
fade and then start again the icon.
Pratimamente keeps rebooting as it did not find the card.

I apologize for my English, I hope you manage to understand me

greetings

can you copy and paste your FriendlyArm.ini file here please?

Do you have a usb to serial adapter?  or a serial port on your PC?  It
would be useful to you to have one, then you can connect to the 'serial
console' on the Tiny210, it will probably show you why it's in a reboot
loop.

here's the. ini file that I uploaded to the SD card

# This line can not be removed. by FriendlyARM (www.arm9.net)

CheckOneButton = No
Action = Install
OS = Linux

LCD-Mode = No
LCD-Type = W50

LowFormat = No
VerifyNandWrite = No
CheckCRC32 = No

StatusType = LED


# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Linux # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
# # # #
Linux-BootLoader = Superboot210.bin
Linux-Kernel = Linux / zImage
Linux-CommandLine = root = / dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype = ext4 console =
ttySAC0, 115200 init = / sbin / init

I have a USB serial adapt and see nothing reeds if it is set correctly.
However, what I gather it's a problem I have to solve pc.

Thank you for your help

Here is the log of HyperTerminal:

[code]
[    3.064204] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): recovery complete
[    3.064259] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data
mode. O
pts:
1Wire touchscreen OK
/init: line 103: can't open /r/dev/console: no such file
[    3.096231] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[    3.096285] Backtrace:
[    3.096338] [<c0171efc>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c059bb04>]
(dump_s
tack+0x18/0x1c)
[    3.096410]  r6:cfc24000 r5:c074d798 r4:c074bff4 r3:00000000
[    3.096478] [<c059baec>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c059bb7c>]
(panic+0x74/
0xf0)
[    3.103901] [<c059bb08>] (panic+0x0/0xf0) from [<c019980c>]
(do_exit+0x74/0x5
f4)
[    3.111260]  r3:c074d798 r2:00000000 r1:00000024 r0:c06b1297
[    3.116876] [<c0199798>] (do_exit+0x0/0x5f4) from [<c019a070>]
(do_group_exit
+0x98/0xc8)
[    3.124946]  r7:000000f8
[    3.127460] [<c0199fd8>] (do_group_exit+0x0/0xc8) from [<c019a0b8>]
(sys_exit
_group+0x18/0x20)
[    3.136042]  r7:000000f8 r6:00000001 r5:beac5f14 r4:00000004
[    3.141656] [<c019a0a0>] (sys_exit_group+0x0/0x20) from [<c016dfc0>]
(ret_fas
t_syscall+0x0/0x30)
[    3.150422] Rebooting in 5 seconds..
[/Code]

In fact it seems to be missing a file. How is this possible?

Thanks and greetings

Here is the log of HyperTerminal:


[    3.064204] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): recovery complete
[    3.064259] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data
mode. O
pts:
1Wire touchscreen OK
/init: line 103: can't open /r/dev/console: no such file
[    3.096231] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[    3.096285] Backtrace:
[    3.096338] [<c0171efc>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c059bb04>]
(dump_s
tack+0x18/0x1c)
[    3.096410]  r6:cfc24000 r5:c074d798 r4:c074bff4 r3:00000000
[    3.096478] [<c059baec>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c059bb7c>]
(panic+0x74/
0xf0)
[    3.103901] [<c059bb08>] (panic+0x0/0xf0) from [<c019980c>]
(do_exit+0x74/0x5
f4)
[    3.111260]  r3:c074d798 r2:00000000 r1:00000024 r0:c06b1297
[    3.116876] [<c0199798>] (do_exit+0x0/0x5f4) from [<c019a070>]
(do_group_exit
+0x98/0xc8)
[    3.124946]  r7:000000f8
[    3.127460] [<c0199fd8>] (do_group_exit+0x0/0xc8) from [<c019a0b8>]
(sys_exit
_group+0x18/0x20)
[    3.136042]  r7:000000f8 r6:00000001 r5:beac5f14 r4:00000004
[    3.141656] [<c019a0a0>] (sys_exit_group+0x0/0x20) from [<c016dfc0>]
(ret_fas
t_syscall+0x0/0x30)
[    3.150422] Rebooting in 5 seconds..


In fact it seems to be missing a file. How is this possible?

Thanks and greetings

after rebooting the error changes slightly:

[    2.992880] smdkc110-rtc smdkc110-rtc: setting system clock to
2012-01-01 12:
00:02 UTC (1325419202)
[    3.002031] DBUG_PORT must not use AFC!
[    3.005927] Freeing init memory: 1428K
[    3.009450] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using s5p-ehci and
address 2
mount: mounting /dev/mmcblk0p2 on /r failed: No such device or address
/init: line 103: can't open /r/dev/console: no such file
[    3.057168] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[    3.057229] Backtrace:
[    3.057277] [<c0171efc>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c059bb04>]
(dump_s
tack+0x18/0x1c)
[    3.057354]  r6:cfc24000 r5:c074d798 r4:c074bff4 r3:00000000
[    3.057422] [<c059baec>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c059bb7c>]
(panic+0x74/
0xf0)
[    3.064846] [<c059bb08>] (panic+0x0/0xf0) from [<c019980c>]
(do_exit+0x74/0x5
f4)
[    3.072202]  r3:c074d798 r2:00000000 r1:00000021 r0:c06b1297
[    3.077822] [<c0199798>] (do_exit+0x0/0x5f4) from [<c019a070>]
(do_group_exit
+0x98/0xc8)
[    3.085889]  r7:000000f8
[    3.088404] [<c0199fd8>] (do_group_exit+0x0/0xc8) from [<c019a0b8>]
(sys_exit
_group+0x18/0x20)
[    3.096983]  r7:000000f8 r6:00000001 r5:bec6cf14 r4:00000004
[    3.102606] [<c019a0a0>] (sys_exit_group+0x0/0x20) from [<c016dfc0>]
(ret_fas
t_syscall+0x0/0x30)
[    3.111367] Rebooting in 5 seconds..

it looks like the initramfs/cpio is broken in the kernel image, it could be
that you just need to rebuild your own kernel with the initramfs stuff
disabled.

Thank you. Could you give me a hand? unfortunately I just started and do
not even know where to start.

thank you
Luca

you need to download and install the toolchain for the tiny210, then unpack
the kernel sources to somewhere suitable on your hard drive, then use 'make
menuconfig' to configure the kernel, go to 'General Setup', then clear the
box for 'Initial RAM Filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support',
once that's done, exit out of the menuconfig and build the kernel using
'make'.

There is a section in the user manual that covers building your own
kernels.

Excuse me, but where can I download the toolchain for Tiny210?
I like systems Windows XP and Fedora ...

Thank you and Greetings
Luca

http://www.friendlyarm.net/downloads

from the ftp site at the bottom of the page.

Hi, this day I try, but I can not create a kernel with the change to solve
the problem of Ubuntu. Someone would be kind enough to help me out by
sending the image file modified?

My email address is: r17lyuck@yahoo.it


I thank and greet all

I followed the directions in the link at the top of the page and made the
ext4 partition be the last partition on my SDCard.  The installation
probably takes all of 4 seconds and is done but when I reboot the Tiny210 I
just get a white screen.

I hooked a serial cable up to each serial port and have putty monitoring
them at 115200 but I am not seeing anything sent out the serial ports.

just a quick fyi, I take it you are all making sure that ext4 is supported
in your kernels?

Yes ext4 is activated in the kernel (I just double checked menuconfig).

Once you've used superboot to burn the kernel to nand, are you then
flipping the switch to Nand boot mode? Superboot itself should give an
indication that it's booting something via serial.

I'll look into it at some point over the next few days and see if there's
anything wrong in the tutorial, there could be something I missed when I
did the writeup.

Dear Luca,
  
   Now,I'm trying to install Ubuntu on the board Tiny210,but I don't find a
Ubuntu images which can be used in my board,so,could you send your Ubuntu
images to me?
   
   I'm looking forward to your early reply.Thank you very much!

       freshman

What OS do the files in the download section:

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/8zs66gwoz2p27//210Board#onf8n0gnun7t5

say rootfs_mini210_256m.img give you?

Recent FA offerings seem to give you a Xubuntu desktop.

Dear davef,

I installed the rootfs_mini210_256m.img on my Mini210 and it is still Linux
Qtopia. Do you know where can I find Ubuntu images?

Sorry, I don't.  Maybe ask of their new forum.

Hello , 

       Friendlyarm  not build ubuntu system for mini210s , maybe you need
to build one ubuntu for your board .

Hi Reggie,

Im trying to deploy Ubuntu to my Tiny 210. The problem I have is that i
can't find any image. All the links are dead. Even the Friendly ARM site
doesn't have an Ubuntu image. Is it possible to find it somewhere?

Thank You