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Is there a documented list of the differences between the geni586 and
net5501 builds?  Reason I ask is that I have been using vmware to test
builds before deploying onto my Alix box.  However I have needed to build
the geni586 version for vmware and the net5501 for Alix.
I had been hoping to run the net5501 version in vmware and thought that I
would be able to do so if I could figure out how to setup a serial port in
vmware that I could connect to from somewhere else to capture the console
output.  yesterday I figured out how to configure the serial ports and can
successfully see output generated by the net5501 build through a serial
console. However, the net5501 build is failing to detect the virtual
ethernet connection in vmware... only the loopback interface is live (on
typing ifconfig).  I'm guessing therefore that the net5501 build is not
including all the same ethernet drivers that the geni586 build does.  Is
there a way to add them to the net5501 build?


Oh... and before you ask.  In the vmx file for astlinux add...
serial0.present = "TRUE"
serial0.fileType = "pipe"
serial0.yieldOnMsrRead = "TRUE"
serial0.startConnected = "TRUE"
serial0.fileName = "\\.\pipe\vmcom1"

and in the vmx file for your CentOS (or whatever you use) add...
serial0.present = "TRUE"
serial0.fileType = "pipe"
serial0.pipe.endPoint = "client"
serial0.yieldOnMsrRead = "TRUE"
serial0.startConnected = "TRUE"
serial0.fileName = "\\.\pipe\vmcom1"

Now in CentOS you can use mincom (or other terminal emulator) to connect to
/dev/ttyS0 (I need to sudo to get permission to access this device)

The above is specific to Windows vmware hosts (the fileName pipe syntax) if
you use Mac or Linux hosts then you will need some other syntax. I have the
above running using VMware Player on Windows XP.

Thanks,
David

Kristian,

I am happy with the process as it is now.  I can edit the PHP code on  
an AstLinux box and test changes within seconds... tar things-up and  
update the release when finished.

Possibly in the future, when the web interface is 'mature', it would  
be a good time to add it directly into the svn.

Lonnie


On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:

> Lonnie,
>
>  Now that you have commit access, would it make sense to move the web
> interface in tree (somehow)?
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:25 PM,  <abe...@us...>  
> wrote:
>> Revision: 2297
>>         http://astlinux.svn.sourceforge.net/astlinux/?rev=2297&view=rev
>> Author:   abelbeck
>> Date:     2009-01-07 19:25:41 +0000 (Wed, 07 Jan 2009)
>>
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> Add DHCP Leases section to the Status tab of the web interface
>>
>> Modified Paths:
>> --------------
>>   trunk/package/webinterface/webinterface.mk
>>
>> Modified: trunk/package/webinterface/webinterface.mk
>> ===================================================================
>> --- trunk/package/webinterface/webinterface.mk  2009-01-07 08:18:22  
>> UTC (rev 2296)
>> +++ trunk/package/webinterface/webinterface.mk  2009-01-07 19:25:41  
>> UTC (rev 2297)
>> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
>> # webinterface
>> #
>> #############################################################
>> -WEBINTERFACE_VER:=1.3.12
>> +WEBINTERFACE_VER:=1.3.13
>> WEBINTERFACE_SOURCE:=altweb-$(WEBINTERFACE_VER).tar.gz
>> WEBINTERFACE_SITE:=http://lonnie.abelbeck.com/astlinux/releases
>> WEBINTERFACE_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/altweb
>>
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Lonnie,

  Now that you have commit access, would it make sense to move the web
interface in tree (somehow)?

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:25 PM,  <abe...@us...> wrote:
> Revision: 2297
>          http://astlinux.svn.sourceforge.net/astlinux/?rev=2297&view=rev
> Author:   abelbeck
> Date:     2009-01-07 19:25:41 +0000 (Wed, 07 Jan 2009)
>
> Log Message:
> -----------
> Add DHCP Leases section to the Status tab of the web interface
>
> Modified Paths:
> --------------
>    trunk/package/webinterface/webinterface.mk
>
> Modified: trunk/package/webinterface/webinterface.mk
> ===================================================================
> --- trunk/package/webinterface/webinterface.mk  2009-01-07 08:18:22 UTC (rev 2296)
> +++ trunk/package/webinterface/webinterface.mk  2009-01-07 19:25:41 UTC (rev 2297)
> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
>  # webinterface
>  #
>  #############################################################
> -WEBINTERFACE_VER:=1.3.12
> +WEBINTERFACE_VER:=1.3.13
>  WEBINTERFACE_SOURCE:=altweb-$(WEBINTERFACE_VER).tar.gz
>  WEBINTERFACE_SITE:=http://lonnie.abelbeck.com/astlinux/releases
>  WEBINTERFACE_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/altweb
>
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>Michael Keuter wrote:
>>>  Can we make BR2_TARGET_ISO default off?
>>>
>>>  Unless you're doing a run-from-CD image, these aren't that useful... and
>>>  most people run from CF with runnix via the runfs image...
>>>
>>>  -Philip
>>>    
>>
>>  Hi Philip,
>>
>>  I would appreciate it, but when I tried, I had problem with 
>>syslinux to build.
>>
>>  Michael
>>  
>
>Can you be more specific please?
>
>-Philip

Hi Philip,

if I disable "Create bootable ISO" in "Target Options", the build 
(rev. 2296) does not finish (after 27 minutes).
These are the last messages before the build stops:
----------------------------------------------------------
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mk/source-control/astlinux-trunk/build_i586/syslinux-3.72/extlinux'
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/home/mk/source-control/astlinux-trunk/build_i586/syslinux-3.72/utils'
perl bin2hex.pl < ../mbr/mbr.bin | cat mkdiskimage.in - > mkdiskimage
perl bin2hex.pl < ../mbr/isohdpfx.bin | cat isohybrid.in - > isohybrid
chmod a+x isohybrid
chmod a+x mkdiskimage
/home/mk/source-control/astlinux-trunk/build_i586/staging_dir/bin/i586-linux-uclibc-gcc 
-W -Wall -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -c -o 
gethostip.o gethostip.c
/home/mk/source-control/astlinux-trunk/build_i586/staging_dir/bin/i586-linux-uclibc-gcc 
-O2 -s -o gethostip gethostip.o
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mk/source-control/astlinux-trunk/build_i586/syslinux-3.72/utils'
ls -l version.gen version.h version.mk mbr/mbr.bin mbr/gptmbr.bin 
core/pxelinux.0 core/isolinux.bin core/isolinux-debug.bin 
gpxe/gpxelinux.0 dos/syslinux.com win32/syslinux.exe memdisk/memdisk 
memdump/memdump.com modules/*.com com32/menu/*.c32 
com32/modules/*.c32  dos/copybs.com utils/gethostip utils/isohybrid 
utils/mkdiskimage mtools/syslinux linux/syslinux extlinux/extlinux
ls: win32/syslinux.exe: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk  51280 Jan  7 10:03 com32/menu/menu.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk 139820 Jan  7 10:03 com32/menu/vesamenu.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk  12372 Jan  7 10:03 com32/modules/chain.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk  10244 Jan  7 10:03 com32/modules/cpuidtest.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk  21772 Jan  7 10:03 com32/modules/dmitest.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk  25128 Jan  7 10:03 com32/modules/elf.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk   8612 Jan  7 10:03 com32/modules/ethersel.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk    904 Jan  7 10:03 com32/modules/ifcpu64.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk  14508 Jan  7 10:03 com32/modules/linux.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk  43364 Jan  7 10:03 com32/modules/mboot.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk   4744 Jan  7 10:03 com32/modules/meminfo.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk  10404 Jan  7 10:03 com32/modules/pcitest.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk  11556 Jan  7 10:03 com32/modules/pmload.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk    520 Jan  7 10:03 com32/modules/reboot.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk   1928 Jan  7 10:03 com32/modules/sanboot.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk  22568 Jan  7 10:03 com32/modules/sdi.c32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk  14336 Jan  7 10:02 core/isolinux-debug.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk  14336 Jan  7 10:02 core/isolinux.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk  15832 Jan  7 10:02 core/pxelinux.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 mk mk    408 Sep 26 01:48 dos/copybs.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk  21656 Jan  7 10:03 dos/syslinux.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk  53444 Jan  7 10:03 extlinux/extlinux
-rw-r--r-- 1 mk mk  71670 Jan  7 10:03 gpxe/gpxelinux.0
-rwxr-xr-x 2 mk mk  24264 Jan  7 10:03 linux/syslinux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk    424 Jan  7 10:03 mbr/gptmbr.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk    404 Jan  7 10:03 mbr/mbr.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 mk mk  20052 Jan  7 10:02 memdisk/memdisk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk   5656 Jan  7 10:03 memdump/memdump.com
-rw-r--r-- 1 mk mk    998 Sep 26 01:47 modules/pxechain.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk  24304 Jan  7 10:03 mtools/syslinux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk   4160 Jan  7 10:03 utils/gethostip
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk   5377 Jan  7 10:03 utils/isohybrid
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mk mk   8312 Jan  7 10:03 utils/mkdiskimage
-rw-r--r-- 1 mk mk    139 Sep 26 01:46 version.gen
-rw-r--r-- 1 mk mk    139 Sep 26 01:46 version.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 mk mk    109 Sep 26 01:46 version.mk
make[1]: [all] Error 2 (ignored)
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mk/source-control/astlinux-trunk/build_i586/syslinux-3.72'
/usr/bin/install -D -m 0755 
/home/mk/source-control/astlinux-trunk/build_i586/syslinux-3.72/linux/syslinux 
\
	/home/mk/source-control/astlinux-trunk/build_i586/root/usr/bin/syslinux
--------------------------------------------

Michael

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I just updated my local build directory using trunk changeset 2292 and 
noticed that the usb/serial options are still missing from the geni586 
kernel config file.

I attached a diff file that includes these changes.

Could a developer please commit them?

Thanks,
 Steve