Re: Getting Fedora on an SD boot for Cubieboard 2

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----- Original Message -----
> 
> On 05/29/2014 04:15 PM, Paul Whalen wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Well I got my first Cubieboard.  A C2.  It is booting Android, but so
> >> far I can't get ethernet working; it is reporting 'disconnected'.
> >>
> >> But I want to be able to boot either Android or Fedora.  I am told that
> >> the boot process checks for rootfs on an SD card and if it finds it,
> >> boots that, if not it boots what is in NAND.
> >>
> >> So I am trying to find the tutorial for installing Fedora (and I
> >> naturally want F20).  I get it that to do an update I will need a
> >> '--exclude kernel*' option.
> > You might be better off going with Rawhide[1]. We don't offer uboot for
> > the Cubie2 but the kernel should work. If it does, please let us know :)
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > [1] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Rawhide/Installation
> 
> This is a first time for me, so please a little help.
> 
> I can run the script on my Fedora 20 notebook (lenovo x120) to the
> microSD card in the SD card slot (will have to use disk utility to get
> the dev name).  And I do I umount the SD card before running the script?
> 
> What is uboot for?  I assume I can find one on cubieboard.org for the c2?

U-Boot is the boot loader for ARM devices. You can use the script to write 
the image, but we do not offer U-Boot for the Cubie2 so you will need to 
provide your own.

This may be a good starting point:

https://github.com/linux-sunxi/u-boot-sunxi/wiki 

Paul 

> 
> And since this is rawhide, I will have to recompile the hipl code
> (probably needed to do that anyway for arm platform):
> http://infrahip.hiit.fi/  Yes one of purposes of this box is HIP
> testing.  On Android and Fedora.
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
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