From: Steve S. <sa...@gm...> - 2008-03-03 13:54:45
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Hugh, You have a very early gumstix-oe revision. FWIW, we are now at 261! As time has passed a few extra packages have been added. You really should update to a new revision. But I guess that's what you were trying to do when you ran into this issue :-) > Where can a get copies of the flash utilities that match my installed > system? Assuming you have a network connection on your gumstix: ipkg update ipkg install mtd-utils Steve On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:27 AM, hughsw <hs...@ho...> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > In my quest to use a USB mic on my new Verdex XM4, I'm trying to reflash my > root and kernel flash partitions. I'm having trouble because utilities that > various instructions mention don't seem to be present. I don't have > 'flash_eraseall', 'flashcp', 'flash_unlock'; i.e. > root@gumstix-custom-verdex:/etc$ find / -xdev -name '*flash*' > root@gumstix-custom-verdex:/etc$ > > I copied the flash* binaries from the new root filesystem to the gumstix, > but they require shared libraries (glibc, etc) that aren't available. > Catch-22! > > Where can a get copies of the flash utilities that match my installed > system? Here's the version info: > root@gumstix-custom-verdex:/etc$ cat gumstix-version > Revision 66M > Built on Wed Dec 19 04:37:15 PST 2007 > Build machine: tera > Target machine: gumstix-custom-verdex > libc: uclibc > > root@gumstix-custom-verdex:/etc$ cat version > 200712190502 > > Also, the mount command, for remounting, doesn't behave the way the docs > say, > root@gumstix-custom-verdex:/etc$ mount -o remount,ro / > mount: you must specify the filesystem type > > I believe I can work around this problem. But, do the verdex boards vintage > Feb 2008 come with a different set of utilities than the online docs talk > about? > > Thanks, > -Hugh > > > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/missing-flash-utilities-on-Feb-2008-verdex-tp15803888p15803888.html > Sent from the Gumstix mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > |