Duovero Setup

Many instructions here are mirrored from Toby Schneider's instructions at http://gobysoft.org/wiki/InstallOnGumstixOvero.

Root filesystem preparation

Follow these steps to create a debian wheezy root filesystem. In this section we will use # host to indicate commands run on the host machine, and # chroot for commands commands run inside the chroot filesystem.

Install dependencies:

# host
sudo apt-get install multistrap qemu-user-static

Pick a working folder, in this case ~/duovero
Create a directory to hold the root filesystem:
```
# host
cd ~/duovero
mkdir rootfs
```

Create a configuration file debian.conf in ~/duovero and paste in the following. Additional packages can be included here or installed later using apt-get.

[General]
arch=armel
directory=~/duovero/rootfs
retainsources=~/duovero/sources
cleanup=true
noauth=true
unpack=true
bootstrap=Wheezy Net Utils
aptsources=Wheezy

[Wheezy]
packages=apt locales udev adduser sudo nano build-essential less
source=http://mv.ezproxy.com.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/debian
suite=wheezy

[Net]
packages=netbase ifupdown iproute net-tools iputils-ping ntp
source=http://mv.ezproxy.com.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/debian

[Utils]
packages=wget
source=http://mv.ezproxy.com.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/debian

Run multistrap to create the root filesystem.
```
# host
sudo multistrap -a armel -d ~/duovero/rootfs -f debian.conf
```
In ubuntu 14.04 you may need to remove $forceyes from /usr/sbin/multistrap at line 989
Copy the QEMU ARM emulator into the new root filesystem so it is on the path when we chroot in.
```
# host
sudo cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static ~/duovero/rootfs/usr/bin/
```
(Optional) If you need /dev/random (for installing openssh-server for example), mount /dev in the chroot.
```
# host
sudo mount -o bind /dev ~/duovero/rootfs/dev
```

Chroot into the new filesystem.

# host
sudo chroot ~/duovero/rootfs /bin/bash

Finish setting up packages
```
# chroot
dpkg --configure -a
```
Answer "no" when prompted to use "dash" as "/bin/sh". If any packages fail to configure (possibly ifupdown), just run dpkg again.
Set the root user password.
```
# chroot
passwd
```

(Optional) Add a new user and give it sudo permissions

# chroot
adduser mit
printf "mit     ALL=(ALL) ALL" >> /etc/sudoers

Configure locales. Choose 138 for en_US.UTF-8.
```
# chroot
dpkg-reconfigure locales
```

Add a DNS server

# chroot
printf "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf

Add a static network entry for eth0 (install the isc-dhcp-client package for dhcp support)

# chroot
nano /etc/network/interfaces
 
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.102
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

Restart networking to apply the new interface.
```
# chroot
/etc/init.d/networking restart
```
This might yield an error, but try pinging something anyways and it should work.
Update the apt repositories
```
# chroot
apt-get update
```

Assign a hostname and update the hosts file

# chroot
printf "nostromo" > /etc/hostname
printf "127.0.0.1   nostromo\n" >> /etc/hosts

Add the serial console (specific to gumstix overo and duovero)

# chroot
printf "T0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 115200 ttyO2 vt102\n" >> /etc/inittab

Add a proc filesystem to fstab

# chroot
nano /etc/fstab
 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0

Using the root filesystem

After setting up the root filesystem, chroot should now log you in as root by default. To log in as a different user, use chroot with the --userspec option. You'll need to provide the user and group id, not name though. To find the id, chroot in as root and look in /etc/passwd

# host
sudo chroot ~/duovero/rootfs
 
# chroot
cat /etc/passwd
 
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
...                                                                                              
mit:x:1000:1000:,,,:/home/mit:/bin/bash

Now to login as the user mit:

# host
sudo chroot --userspec=1000:1000 ~/duovero/rootfs

To avoid permission issues, you should use your user account (not the root account) to check out subversion or git repos. Sudo may not work in the chroot environment, so you may still need to use the root account for operations that require root access.

Kernel Preparation

Install dependencies

sudo apt-get install u-boot-tools g++-arm-linux-gnueabi

Download the kernel

cd duovero
mkdir kernel-dev
cd kernel-dev
git clone git://github.com/gumstix/linux.git linux -b omap-3.6

Copy the duovero config from the hovergroup svn and create a .config file.

cd linux
cp ~/hovergroup/gumstix-dev/duovero/defconfig arch/arm/configs/duovero_defconfig
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- duovero_defconfig

Build the kernel and modules

make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- uImage -j2
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- modules -j2

The resulting uImage should be built in arch/arm/boot. Modules will be installed by the script that makes the SD card.

Software setup

apt-get install module-init-tools
usermod -a -G dialout mit

Deploy to SD card

Copy the required files from the hovergroup svn:

cp ~/hovergroup/gumstix-dev/duovero/u-boot.img ~/duovero/
cp ~/hovergroup/gumstix-dev/duovero/MLO ~/duovero/
cp ~/hovergroup/gumstix-dev/duovero/mksdcard.sh ~/duovero/

Insert your sd card, determine its device identifier (/dev/sdb for example), and then run the script. There are some absolute paths in the script so you may want to look through it before running it.

cd ~/duovero
sudo ./mksdcard /dev/sdb

References

http://gobysoft.org/wiki/CompileGumstixKernel

http://gobysoft.org/wiki/InstallOnGumstixOvero

http://www.gumstix.org/software-development/how-to/248-compile-kernel-boot-loader.html

http://www.gumstix.org/access-source-code.html

http://www.gumstix.org/basic-cross-compilation.html

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