StreamBox Beagleboard

This revision is from 2009/07/19 23:13. You can Restore it.

StreamBox on a BeagleBoard

Alejo Duque

A parallel track to the streambox on the alix board to be found here:

StreamBox Alix v.0.1

First Boot!

notes on the process:

Dad to buy a null modem cable and a hdmi video cable (but still need a monitor able to do hdmi).

Followed this partition scheme guideline:

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardBeginners#SD_card_setup

Got the narcissus image build for angstrom, failed to boot!

** Unable to use mmc 0:1 for fatload **
Wrong Image Format for bootm command
ERROR: can't get kernel image!

Had rename and copy:

1. mv /media/boot/uImage /media/boot/uImage_
2. cp /media/root/boot/uImage-2.6.29-omap1 /media/boot/uImage

Then, boot like this:

1. mmcinit
2. boot

.-------.                                                                                                                                        
|       |                  .-.                                                                                                                   
|   |   |-----.-----.-----.| |   .----..-----.-----.                                                                                             
|       |     | __  |  ---'| '--.|  .-'|     |     |                                                                                             
|   |   |  |  |     |---  ||  --'|  |  |  '  | | | |                                                                                             
'---'---'--'--'--.  |-----''----''--'  '-----'-'-'-'                                                                                             
                -'  |                                                                                                                            
                '---'                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                 
The Angstrom Distribution beagleboard ttyS2                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                 
Angstrom 2009.X-test-20090508 beagleboard ttyS2  

And, to log in just use root, theres no need for a password.

Hardware Specifications

OMAP3530 applications processor featuring the ARM® Cortex™-A8

128MB low-power DDR RAM

256MB NAND flash

USB 2.0 high-speed on-the-go port

DVI-D output

NTSC/PAL TV via S-Video output

6-in-one 8-bit MMC+/SD/SDIO connection

Stereo audio in/output

JTAG header

I2S, I2S, SPI, MMC/SD expansion header

Power via USB or alternate jack

Angstrom

http://amethyst.openembedded.net/~koen/narcissus/

http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/

http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/unstable/autobuild/beagleboard/

some wiki instructions:

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardHandheldsMojo#Debian_Installer_QEMU_.28hasty-armv5el_or_hasty-armv6el.29

shopping list

http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/BeagleBoardShoppingList

notes from alejo duque, 20/12/2008