MIMO Plug... Can Load Debian, but not the PlugPBX payload

[gvjensen]

guys... I have been pulling my hair out.

I can get debian to load on the MIMO Monitor (Sheeva), and to boot reliably from uboot / SD Card (http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/Installing_Debian_To_Flash#Boot_with_USB_rootfs)

No matter what I seem to do, installing the uImage and the uInitrd (plugpbx or per the above procedure), all I get is a gibberish mess and no webpage / webmin / freepbx etc.

Any ideas?



Glenn

[PlugPBX Admin]

guys... I have been pulling my hair out.

I can get debian to load on the MIMO Monitor (Sheeva), and to boot reliably from uboot / SD Card (http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/Installing_Debian_To_Flash#Boot_with_USB_rootfs)

No matter what I seem to do, installing the uImage and the uInitrd (plugpbx or per the above procedure), all I get is a gibberish mess and no webpage / webmin / freepbx etc.

Any ideas?
Glenn

Whats a MIMO Monitor?

The image here has a 2 year old kernel, some newer sheeva REV's changed a aspect of the serial stuff, and you need a newer kernel image for the serial console to work (hence garbage). It would be easiest to mount that SD card image and copy/paste in a newer ARM sheeva Kernel, you could grab one from debians apt-get repo's etc ..sure there is lots of ways of doing this.

This has been detailed on the forums awhile back, search for garbage console, or console serial kernel or something like that, should get you on your way.

Do you have a link to the MIMO Monitor hardware or something?

The image is quite dated, one of these days I'll get around to perhaps spinning a new one - I've been waiting to see about Asterisk vs. FreeSwitch as of late, and where FreePBX is going. I'd like to take another crack with a significant change or improvement in simplicity of components used... And having two kids now has keep me busy getting their software working better

[PlugPBX Admin]

guys... I have been pulling my hair out.

I can get debian to load on the MIMO Monitor (Sheeva), and to boot reliably from uboot / SD Card (http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/Installing_Debian_To_Flash#Boot_with_USB_rootfs)

No matter what I seem to do, installing the uImage and the uInitrd (plugpbx or per the above procedure), all I get is a gibberish mess and no webpage / webmin / freepbx etc.

Any ideas?
Glenn

Whats a MIMO Monitor?

The image here has a 2 year old kernel, some newer sheeva REV's changed a aspect of the serial stuff, and you need a newer kernel image for the serial console to work (hence garbage). It would be easiest to mount that SD card image and copy/paste in a newer ARM sheeva Kernel, you could grab one from debians apt-get repo's etc ..sure there is lots of ways of doing this.

This has been detailed on the forums awhile back, search for garbage console, or console serial kernel or something like that, should get you on your way.

Do you have a link to the MIMO Monitor hardware or something?

The image is quite dated, one of these days I'll get around to perhaps spinning a new one - I've been waiting to see about Asterisk vs. FreeSwitch as of late, and where FreePBX is going. I'd like to take another crack with a significant change or improvement in simplicity of components used... And having two kids now has keep me busy getting their software working better

I also want to wait and see if FreePBX is mature now using SQLITE, instead of using a full blown MySQL server in an embeded solution lol. It was scary when I poked it two years ago (yes, PlugPBX is now two years old, holy crap)...

And I'll be honest, I'm hovering waiting to take a hard look at Raspberry PI, cause that'd rock with a PlugPBX style image too

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

[gvjensen]

 

Thanks so much... may simply have to compile astersisk on this kernel.  Turns out that my experiment got me to debian 7, with webmin, mysql, myphpadmin, etc (just on a Class 2 card (in a carrier) from my EVO cell phone).

Oh how we love embedded.

Mimo can be found at http://www.mimomonitors.com/ - the one that I purchased on ebay is the esata version.

Happy Holidays - Glenn

[PlugPBX Admin]

Thanks so much... may simply have to compile astersisk on this kernel.  Turns out that my experiment got me to debian 7, with webmin, mysql, myphpadmin, etc (just on a Class 2 card (in a carrier) from my EVO cell phone).

Oh how we love embedded.

Mimo can be found at http://www.mimomonitors.com/ - the one that I purchased on ebay is the esata version.

Happy Holidays - Glenn

Cool, another manuf. that builds the marvel sheevaplug spec. Neato.  Yah newer kernel you'll be fine.

You can drop in in binaries I built in my image, the only thing you don't get would be conference call capabilities without the dahdi kernel driver. Also, I want to see the non-kernel module conference stuff mature, I hate users having to compile a kernel module, that goes away, and users can apt-get update components as they feel.

I also want to see debian cleanly support asterisk in squeeze again (sometimes its hit and miss) then I can just hand all that over to apt as well, forget the compile crap.

You should look in the dev forums, I wrote shell script that pretty much builds a PlugPBX from a virgin install of debian, haven't quite perfected it 100% but it'll get you nearly there... you might find that could be of help to you if you wanted to spin your own from lessons here etc...

Of course anyone taking that a few steps further is always welcome.