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Revision as of 08:05, 17 August 2014
Introduction
This guide will help you to get your B3 up and running with the latest release of Arch Linux.
Prerequisites
- A serial console
- The latest community u-boot (Tips for flashing can be found here + here)
- A USB device with the Rescue System
The Arch part
Setting up the root device
There are several ways of doing this, depending on whether you are using a USB device or HDD as root device.
I'm going to assume that you are using a HDD.
Now - Boot up your rescue system.
Once booted download the latest Arch tarball
wget http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-kirkwood-latest.tar.gz
Write a partitiontable on the device you want to use as root device
cfdisk /dev/sd? # new -> primary
And format it as EXT4
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sd?1
Now mount it and unpack the good stuff
mount /dev/sd?1 /mnt tar xvf ArchLinuxARM-kirkwood-latest.tar.gz -C /mnt umount /mnt
If everything goes well you should have a bootable Arch system. (login root/root)
[root@alarm ~]# uname -a Linux alarm 3.16.1-1-ARCH #1 PREEMPT Fri Aug 15 20:35:00 MDT 2014 armv5tel GNU/Linux