Plug notes

• 2 stop bits to get the bootloader to recognize keyboard and stop autobooting
• speed: 115200 /dev/ttyUSB1
• root/fedoraarm default password
• rpms installed for development: rsync, git, vim-enhanced, sudo, make, rpm-build, tar, httpd-devel, boot-devel, gcc-c++
• passenger: need rubygems-1.3.5-4.fc12.noarch.rpm with macro changes
• rpms installed for amahi: httpd, ruby, samba,
• build hdactl, hda-platform, install (with --nodeps)

RPMs not available from the mirrors:

• hda-greyhole
• cadaver
• rubygem-gd2 - actually - is this one necessary?
• ruby-RMagick

Other:

• VPN does not work (had to turn it off in servers). This could be due to the kernel not having all that it needs for TUN/TAP?:

     Cannot allocate TUN/TAP dev dynamically

• Greyhole not working - hda-greyhole needed
• crontab does not appear to be working
• had to add with noatime in / to prevent flash burnout
• should control monit - it keeps on pounding the flash with messages in /var/log/monit
• would like to add swap to flash based drives
• mt-daapd and amahi-transmission are dying

Getting the plug booting Fedora 12

Here are the steps to make the plug boot from USB

• General directions
• get the rootfs-f12.tar.bz2 from

    http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/fedora/rootfs/

• Connect the JTAG module and connect the USB side to a terminal emulator
• Putty for windows (Serial)
• gtkterm for linux (use 2 stop bits!)
• Reset the device from the JTAG module
• At the terminal, press enter a couple of seconds after boot to prevent it booting to the flash
• There are some commands to make it permanently boot off USB:

         setenv mainlineLinux yes
         setenv arcNumber 2097
         setenv bootargs_root 'root=/dev/sda1 rootdelay=15'
         setenv bootcmd_usb 'usb start; ext2load usb 0:1  0x6400000 /boot/uImage-2.6.30-sheevaplug'
         setenv bootcmd 'setenv bootargs $(console) $(bootargs_root); run bootcmd_usb; bootm 0x6400000'
         saveenv
         reset

Amahi Install

• ssh into the plug
• yum -y install httpd

• Install the hda-release
  • rpm -Uvh <latest_rpm repo="amahi-f12" rpm="hda-release" arch="noarch" output="url" />

• Install hdactl
  • rpm -Uvh --nodeps <latest_rpm repo="amahi-f12" rpm="hdactl" arch="armv5tel" output="url" />

• Now install hda-platform
  • rpm -Uvh --nodeps <latest_rpm repo="amahi-f12" rpm="hda-platform" arch="noarch" output="url" />

• Install dependencies:
  • yum -y install rubygems ruby-libs ruby-mysql

• Start the Amahi installer.
  • service amahi-installer start

• And last but not least, get the installer going by accessing it with a browser:

      http://plug:2000

• input the install code and install!
• NOTE: it may be better to
• report bugs!

Reporting issues

These are mostly what matter for debugging:

• /root/hda-install.log
• egrep -v 'POST|GET|progress' /tmp/amahi-ruby-install.log

Misc Notes

• restarting rpm db in chrooted environment:

         rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*
         rpm --rebuilddb -vv