Hi Albert, Thank you very much for your support/help :) i actually didn't want be harsh with my words :( i'm pretty newbie, *really* and what i did is:

sudo tar xjvf u-boot-1.3.3.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src

then i tried:

make distclean canyonlands_config all (as i read at http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootConfiguration )

and i got:

mbdev-deb:/usr/src/u-boot-1.3.3# make distclean canyonlands_config all Configuring for canyonlands board... System not configured - see README make: ** [all] Erro 1

also, as you all can easely see, i was not able to 'configure' the system i tried many other things in a 'adhoc' way and i still not able to handle this :(

Kind Regards and Best Wishes,

Geraldo São Paulo, Brasil, -3gmt site: http://exdev.sf.net/ msn: geraldo_boca_at_hotmail.com skype: geraldo-netto icq: 145-061-456

2008/7/26 Albert ARIBAUD albert.aribaud@free.fr:

Geraldo Netto a écrit :

...

i tried the steps at http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/Manual but i was not able to make it work on x86 does anyone have any tip/doc(s) on how to make u-boot work on x86? i'd really appreciate that help :P

Hello,

You *might* get some help if you specify what exactly you tried, what succeeded, what did not succeed and what was the actual vs expected outcome of the unsuccessful step, including error messages.

Amicalement,

Albert.

In message faf3083f0807261131t57aa2d05ib1f8a4c85960266d@mail.gmail.com you wrote:

sudo tar xjvf u-boot-1.3.3.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src

then i tried:

make distclean canyonlands_config all (as i read at http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootConfiguration )

You mention "u-boot on x86" in the subjct - are you aware that the Canyonlands board is not x86, but PPC?

What you should do is:

make distclean make canyonlands_config make all

Do not try to perform all there steps in a single call to make - this cannot work.

mbdev-deb:/usr/src/u-boot-1.3.3# make distclean canyonlands_config all Configuring for canyonlands board... System not configured - see README make: ** [all] Erro 1

This is caused by your incorrect call to make - see above.

also, as you all can easely see, i was not able to 'configure' the system i tried many other things in a 'adhoc' way and i still not able to handle this :(

Please read the manual - it describes step by step what to do. If you had follwed the examples, aboveerror could have been avoided. See http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/Manual?stickboard=canyonlands

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

Hi Geraldo, your final course project appear very interesting.

As others guys already said porting U-Boot to your board is a hard work. Verifying Makefile I found for i386 only AMD SC520 boards are supported.

I think you can use coreboot (formerly LinuxBIOS) and FILO to boot your board.

If your thin client board is not supported (http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards) you can use VIA pc2500 board that is being mass produced here in Brazil and is cheap.

You can use this tutorial as start point if you don't have a supported hardware: http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU_Build_Tutorial

Best Regards,

Alan

2008/7/26 Geraldo Netto geraldonetto@gmail.com:

Hi :)

regarding ppc boards,oh, i didn't know that actually i'm a 22yo newbie guy which is interested in u-boot because i do study information systems in Brazil and i'm doing a linux distro for thin clients(as a final course project->monograph+software) and i got interested in u-boot because it seems the *correct* bootloader for my project ie: it seems far smaller than other ones and at once offers many features :) and i also studied/setup grub/lilo/syslinux :) i need to compare bootloaders and write down the features of each one and show which bootloader is better for each case ie: which one has 'best' features for diskless boot; which one is better for local boot(size, 'dinamyc configuration(ie: pass parameter on the fly)',...,...; ...

Kind Regards and Best Wishes,

Geraldo São Paulo, Brasil, -3gmt site: http://exdev.sf.net/ msn: geraldo_boca_at_hotmail.com skype: geraldo-netto icq: 145-061-456

2008/7/26 Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de:

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In message faf3083f0807261131t57aa2d05ib1f8a4c85960266d@mail.gmail.com you wrote:

...

sudo tar xjvf u-boot-1.3.3.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src

then i tried:

make distclean canyonlands_config all (as i read at http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootConfiguration )

You mention "u-boot on x86" in the subjct - are you aware that the Canyonlands board is not x86, but PPC?

What you should do is:

   make distclean
   make canyonlands_config
   make all

Do not try to perform all there steps in a single call to make - this cannot work.

...

mbdev-deb:/usr/src/u-boot-1.3.3# make distclean canyonlands_config all Configuring for canyonlands board... System not configured - see README make: ** [all] Erro 1

This is caused by your incorrect call to make - see above.

...

also, as you all can easely see, i was not able to 'configure' the system i tried many other things in a 'adhoc' way and i still not able to handle this :(

Please read the manual - it describes step by step what to do. If you had follwed the examples, aboveerror could have been avoided. See http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/Manual?stickboard=canyonlands

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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