[MinnowBoard] Booting OpenWrt

Mon Sep 29 16:02:52 UTC 2014

Apologies, I credited Michael with writing it up earlier. Sam, thank you!
-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center

From:  Sam Crawford <sam at samknows.com>
Reply-To:  MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion
<elinux-minnowboard at lists.elinux.org>
Date:  Monday, September 29, 2014 at 9:00
To:  MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion
<elinux-minnowboard at lists.elinux.org>
Subject:  Re: [MinnowBoard] Booting OpenWrt

> I've just added it to http://elinux.org/Minnowboard:MinnowMaxDistros. I've
> effectively cloned the OpenWrt page. I assume there's no copyright issue with
> this, as I'm the original author.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
> On 29 September 2014 16:58, Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> I suggest placing a link to it here:
>> 
>> http://www.elinux.org/Minnowboard:MinnowMaxDistros
>> 
>> 
>> Also, re EFI, GPT is not required, MSDOS partition is also supported. The
>> more critical element is the FAT32 partition. Some support FAT32 partition
>> type, others require the EFI type (the FS is the same). Michael's
>> documentation looks good to me - thanks for writing it all down!
>> 
>> --
>> Darren Hart
>> Intel Open Source Technology Center
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From:  Michael Jarvis <mjarvis.tx.08 at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To:  MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion
>> <elinux-minnowboard at lists.elinux.org>
>> Date:  Monday, September 29, 2014 at 7:50
>> To:  MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion
>> <elinux-minnowboard at lists.elinux.org>
>> Subject:  Re: [MinnowBoard] Booting OpenWrt
>> 
>> 
>>> >This would be good information to link to (or duplicate) on the
>>> >Minnowboard Max wiki <http://www.elinux.org/Minnowboard:MinnowMax>, but
>>> >I'm not exactly sure where it should go in the hierarchy of pages.
>>> >
>>> >On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Sam Crawford <sam at samknows.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >I got it working. For anyone else struggling with this in the future,
>>> >here's my write-up on getting OpenWrt onto the Minnowboard Max:
>>> >http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/minnowboard/minnowboard-max
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >Thanks,
>>> >
>>> >Sam
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >On 26 September 2014 23:27, Sam Crawford <sam at samknows.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >Thanks John. Can you provide any pointers or links to what's needed to
>>> >repackage it to make it suitable with UEFI? I've asked around on the
>>> >OpenWrt IRC channel - UEFI is pretty much unheard of there.
>>> >Thanks
>>> >
>>> >Sam
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >On 26 September 2014 23:18, John Hawley <john.hawley at intel.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >So the image that OpenWRT has there won't work on the MAX's firmware for
>>> >two reasons:
>>> >
>>> >1) Not a GPT partition table
>>> >2) No UEFI boot partition
>>> >
>>> >Coreboot w/ Seabios would probably boot this, but it may be easier to
>>> >repackage what's there for UEFI.
>>> >
>>> >- John
>>> >
>>> >On 09/26/2014 05:26 AM, Sam Crawford wrote:
>>>> >> Hello,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Has anyone had any joy booting OpenWrt on the Minnowboard Max yet?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I've tried the naive approach of
>>>> >> flashing
>>>> >>https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/x86_64/openwrt-x86_64-combi
>>>> >>ned-ext4.img.gz
>>>> >> (decompressed of course) to a USB stick, but the EFI firmware doesn't
>>>> >> want to boot from it. The EFI shell doesn't even recognise fs0 as a
>>>> >> 'valid mapping' (in EFI-speak I think).
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I suspect EFI is the cause of the pain here, but I'm unfamiliar with
>>>> >> what modifications are required to get it to play nice.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thanks,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Sam
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>> >
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