Need help with T2

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Hi,

On 06.04.2008, at 04:22, Vatsal Mehta wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I need some help with T2, currently I have tried using the 7.0-rc2  
> snapshot and also used the trunk, and 7.0 branch. I am compiling on  
> Ubuntu 7.10.

7.0-rc2 probably fails on Ubuntu due to the 1-perl cross build. Just  
check out the
branche/7.0 from SVN - which should also build on Ubuntu.

> I am running into issue when trying to configure the Generic with “A  
> Base Selection for Benchmarking purpose” and the compile is failing  
> at Glibc with error that the kernel headers are too old.

The Linux header are included with T2, however maybe this ad-hoc  
"benchmark" is
not correctly configured anymore, as I only quickly stuffed it  
together for a test
(thus the name benchmark). Better select a more useful target, such as  
generic,
desktop, ...

> Also, I have burnt the iso image from your server on a CD and it  
> boots fine on VMWare, but when I boot on a real system, it just  
> gives me the grub text mode prompt “grub>” and I tried playing  
> around with the grub text mode but it doesn’t recognize the cdrom  
> device.

Yeah - I just some month ago improved our GRUB to work around bugs in  
the
CD-ROM emulation, so the next ISOs should work better.

When you build your own ISOs you could also choose to use syslinux.

> I have read the documentation and there doesn’t seem to be a  
> standard reliable and working way to repeat build images documented  
> somewhere. Would somebody please help me with a short list of  
> instructions that are guaranteed to build a system.

http://www.t2-project.org/documentation/buildintro.html

> I have to create my linux build environment and install on a USB  
> Flash drive, and I will be happy if somebody can provide some  
> instructions for that as well.

You can build a normal T2 ISO with Grub, and then use our iso2stick  
converter
script which comes with T2 co install the system bootable onto a USB  
Stick:

./misc/archive/iso2stick.sh some-t2-target-with-grub.iso /dev/sdb # or  
what your stick device is

--
   René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
   http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name


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Hi Rene,

Thanks for your help, I am able to build the CD images. Now I've built a
live CD, but can't seem to find the username/password. Can you let me know
what is the default username/password for the liveCD.

Thanks,

Vatsal Mehta

-----Original Message-----
From: Rene Rebe [mailto:rene@...]
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 1:49 AM
To: Vatsal Mehta
Cc: T2 developers mailing list
Subject: Re: [t2] Need help with T2

Hi,

On 06.04.2008, at 04:22, Vatsal Mehta wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I need some help with T2, currently I have tried using the 7.0-rc2  
> snapshot and also used the trunk, and 7.0 branch. I am compiling on  
> Ubuntu 7.10.

7.0-rc2 probably fails on Ubuntu due to the 1-perl cross build. Just  
check out the
branche/7.0 from SVN - which should also build on Ubuntu.

> I am running into issue when trying to configure the Generic with “A  
> Base Selection for Benchmarking purpose” and the compile is failing  
> at Glibc with error that the kernel headers are too old.

The Linux header are included with T2, however maybe this ad-hoc  
"benchmark" is
not correctly configured anymore, as I only quickly stuffed it  
together for a test
(thus the name benchmark). Better select a more useful target, such as  
generic,
desktop, ...

> Also, I have burnt the iso image from your server on a CD and it  
> boots fine on VMWare, but when I boot on a real system, it just  
> gives me the grub text mode prompt “grub>” and I tried playing  
> around with the grub text mode but it doesn’t recognize the cdrom  
> device.

Yeah - I just some month ago improved our GRUB to work around bugs in  
the
CD-ROM emulation, so the next ISOs should work better.

When you build your own ISOs you could also choose to use syslinux.

> I have read the documentation and there doesn’t seem to be a  
> standard reliable and working way to repeat build images documented  
> somewhere. Would somebody please help me with a short list of  
> instructions that are guaranteed to build a system.

http://www.t2-project.org/documentation/buildintro.html

> I have to create my linux build environment and install on a USB  
> Flash drive, and I will be happy if somebody can provide some  
> instructions for that as well.

You can build a normal T2 ISO with Grub, and then use our iso2stick  
converter
script which comes with T2 co install the system bootable onto a USB  
Stick:

./misc/archive/iso2stick.sh some-t2-target-with-grub.iso /dev/sdb # or  
what your stick device is

--
   René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
   http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name


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