Firefly-RK3288 Slackware Arm

AussieJohn · Posted at 4/19/2016 09:06:49

hi mara, thanks so much for getting back to me, tired to download the torrent as that would be the best way for me to download without worrying about a dropped connection however i can't download the torrent file you posted, it says 'Forbidden' when i try to

I'm really excited to try out slackware so hopefully i can get this going soon

mara · Posted at 4/19/2016 10:52:51

hi, AussieJohn
I'm sorry, does the right to file were limited fixed

AussieJohn · Posted at 4/19/2016 13:59:50

mara, thanks its working now, ill download and install tonight
I'm no expert in linux but let me know if i can help out in anyway with testing etc and id be happy to

AussieJohn · Posted at 4/19/2016 19:41:18

mara
sorry to bother you again, I'm still having trouble downloading the xfce image, I've got every other file but that one drops the connection randomly still.
I've tried the torrent but theres no seeders

mara · Posted at 4/20/2016 00:40:20

AussieJohn,
communication problems
alternative: https://yadi.sk/d/aJcaJr4Lr8KTK
http://dl.fail.pp.ua/slackware/f ... 20160417.img.7z.md5

mara · Posted at 4/20/2016 03:38:36

create a bootable sdcard
http://p.fail.pp.ua/Pn6CSd2O

AussieJohn · Posted at 4/20/2016 06:20:58

thanks mara, i was able to download that last file, I'm at university right now but when i get home ill flash my firefly and let you know how it went
thanks again for all your help and for spending the time getting slackware running on this board

AussieJohn · Posted at 4/20/2016 19:19:17

Last edited by AussieJohn In 4/20/2016 19:29 Editor

update:
I've flashed all the files to the correct locations etc using androidtools but when i boot the firefly theres a kernel panic that says
[ end kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(179,1)

i haven tried reflashing a couple times but I'm not sure what to try next? i had a look at the parameters.txt but im not sure what i need to change

mara · Posted at 4/21/2016 03:19:22

I wrote above, the firmware is successful on eMMC, but in fact and not sewn. so I put on root sdcard or all of the loader to the root partition
sufficient to eMMC flash parameters.txt, boot.img, kernel.img
create a partition on sdcard and pour back linuxroot (dd /dev/mmcb0p1)

above script to create such a sdcard (but be careful with the choice of card, the script has made a mistake, when you cancel it)

AussieJohn · Posted at 4/21/2016 14:50:41

Last edited by AussieJohn In 4/21/2016 15:24 Editor

mara, I'm having no luck getting it to work
tried androindtools and it flash with no error but hangs whole looking for root fs
tried the linux script to flash emac and it has same error on boot
also tried the sdcard script but i don't seem to be able to boot from sdcard
it appears to me that its failing to detect the root partition set in the parameters.txt file, perhaps theres is something wrong there?