Right…i’m aware of it,but 6mb is really small…my kernelbinary is also compressed near same size and then additional the files for os which are not compressable like binaries.
Note: Boot and root partition sizes are defined under “Target Images —>” menu in menuconfig. Default sizes are 32Mb for boot and 256Mb for root. It is OK to resize any of these using partition management utilities after writing the image to the SD card.
Can somebody point me how to do it?
Also, is it possible to write this image to EMMC?
edit:
Forget it.
Files:
openwrt-mediatek-mt7623-7623n-bananapi-bpi-r2-ext4-sdcard.img.gz
openwrt-mediatek-mt7623-7623n-bananapi-bpi-r2-ext4-sysupgrade.tar.gz
not exist.
These files are not being created. Only file that I get is “root.ext4”
I give up and leave this fork. I don’t want to play with this anymore.
Regards
Any errors while compiling?
I guess you miss any depency
Compilation runs without any errors, just most important files are being not generated.
Only option what I changed is C library to glibc, because I need it for one program (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network) that I want to run on Banana Pi.
Reason why I trying to use other build tools for Banana Pi is that lokinet needs glibc 2.29 to run, so I need to compile toolchain with that version of glibc.
I trying now to use external toolchain. Maybe this is topic to separated thread, but in crosstool-ng I experiencing erros (https://github.com/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng/issues/963)
But, anyway, frank-w can you point me how to make ext4 rootfs partiion?
Regards.
I had only tried to compile the repo as it is…had not changed anything in menuconfig…and i got the ext4-image which contains a ext4-partition for rootfs
So try first without modifying anything and then change 1 by 1 till the images are not created/updated
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Unfortunately still the same.
I give up.
Can you give me some instructions how to make ext4 rootfs from this image: BPI-R2 LEDE source code for hardware NAT
and flash it to EMMC?
i don’t know openwrt/lede much…you don’t have the image also if using the repos code?
this answer has to be answered by @LeXa2
Unfortunately no. Still the same. No images generated.
Thank you anyway Frank.
@Tohin Thanks. This image is working fine.
Can you tell me what tools i can use to resize root partition?
It’s possible to write image to EMMC?
It is a HUGE change - you’re changing the main C library used for the image. I hadn’t tested if this works at all and upstream (i.e. original OpenWRT) also does not provide glibc-base builds by default. Expect all kinds of problems. It might work, it might not - be prepared to dig a lot resolving various problems.
Well… with the attitude like this your best bet would be to use ubuntu-based or armbian-based image for this board and free yourself from all the complation-related hassle - after all building software is not a thing expected to be done by a generic standard person out there :-).
If you would change your mind and would like to check what’s going on and what’s the problem is and want people on this forum to be able to help you - please provide more details.
Important are:
- Output of
git branchcommand when executed at the same dir you executemakeat. - Full build log output. To gather it execute build like this:
make clean && make V=s | tee build.log; bzip2 build.log. Attach resulting build.log.bz2 file here. - Contents of your
.config. Again, create an archive with it like this:cat .config | bzip2 -9 - > .config.bz2and attach.config.bz2here.
Also of a great help would be to provide us with the exact details of the things you did to clone repo and prepare it for the build. Devil usually is in details, you know.
In general you cat put the image to the SD card and then use any partition manager tool you like to do the task. gparted is a best choice under linux, google for “Partition Master” or “Partition Manager” or “Partition Wizard” to find suitable utility for Windows.
There’s a catch though that makes gparted the best for this task: windows-based tools in general don’t know how to handle ext4 partitions. Then, when resizing be sure not to move first partition, you may break bootloader-related magic otherwise. It is OK to resize first partition and it is OK to resize/move other partitions or to add additional partitions. Beware squashfs-based images - they can’t be resized easily.
Fortunately images are being generated. I really can’t figure out what I missed before.
I’m on Arch Linux so I used gparted for resize rootfs partition and this also works fine.
Additionally I founded way to make this system starting from EMMC.
Solution brings me this post: Which preloader image to use?
You, @LeXa2, pointed me which preloader I must use and @frank-w pointed where I must flash.
I partitioned emmcblk0 for boot and rootfs partition, copied content and flash preloader to mmcblk0boot0. Now I can start system from EMMC. Looks like uEnv.txt is not needed because bootargs are hardcoded in preloader. I tried, just-for-fun, to boot Arch Linux ARM from /dev/sda1 (SSD) but bootargs in uEnv.txt have no effect, it’s always booting from mmcblk0 or mmcblk1.
Anyway thak you guys @LeXa2 @frank-w for help.
Now I have what I wanted.
Regards.
Welcome. Glad that it had worked for you after all. Ping back here if any new troubles, chances are we might be able to help.
Upd. Out of curiosity, so am I correct that your image is built with glibc instead of musl? If that’s the case it is nice to know that it works too - you’re the first person to test it then.
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Yes, I built it with glibc.
I need glibc to run Lokinet router (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network) but unfortunately it needs glibc 2.29 so i’m not able to start it yet. I tried to compile with external toolchain (crosstool-ng, glibc 2.29) but with no success.
For OpenWRT better luck might be to try patching/porting 2.29 to it. Take a look at toolchain/glibc folder and files underneath. Who knows, it might be porting would be as easy as changing PKG_VERSION to 2.29 and fixing resp checksums and commit ids.
I already tried this but unfortunately there was always some errors then build kernel 
I tried it in Arch Linux gcc 9 and Ubuntu Xenial gcc 5.
You may try it other way around then: build image with stock openwrt glibc first but also select in menuconfig an option to create a toolchain tarball. Then use this toolchain to self-build glibc 2.29 and then overwrite existing glibc-related files with what you had built directly in the image on the SD card. Or you may want to try building glibc 2.29 with a separate prefix, like, /opt/glibc2.29/, and then use this prefix and LD_LIBRARY_PATH/RUNPATH to build/link/run Lokinet with. This way you’d be having your desired 2.29 glibc existing alongside original image glibc.
Upd. Ah, and are you sure Lokinet has a hard dependency on glibc 2.29+? I don’t see this req stated on its github page.
I cross-compiled it on Arch Linux with glibc 2.29 (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arm-linux-gnueabihf-glibc/)
It’s possible that because of this is demanding glibc 2.29 on Openwrt?