How To Compile Your Own Kernels, Modules, Tinboot (NAND boot), and More for Beginners

[Lmiller1708]

Originally Posted by oisact

Thanks. The strip command in the darwin_x86 bin directory must be used on OSX. The native strip command doesn't work.

It appears everything is building successfully, however the booting freezes just after haret finishes loading and it vibrates twice. No black console boot screen is displayed.

I'm not entirely clear on modules tarball. According to the instructions in this thread, I thought that it should have a data/modules folder structure, in which the ko files reside. However looking at the FRX05 modules tar.gz shows a flat file structure. I've tried both.

Any suggestions on how to proceed from here? Anyone want to take a look at the zimage and modules tarball I've built?

Nand does not use the modules as a tar ball anymore. We use squash and they need to be made with version 3.4 (not the most recent one).
Nate posted how to install:

To set upsquashfs tools, download squashfs tools from here: ftp://ftp.slax.org/source/slax/sqlzm...shfs3.4.tar.gz
Now, extract the files, then browse into the squashfs3.4/squashfs-tools folder, then type make, then sudo make install.

As for you not being able to get past the frist boot screen it seems like your NBH is not being made correctly. We are in the process of changing the making all together. So you can test it for us.
Steps:
1. Add the attached nbgen.c to the tinboot/tool folder.
2. Change your Build or the NBH to this: (see my example)

echo "Creating NB..."
rm tools/nbgen    
if [ ! -f tools/nbgen ]; then
    gcc -std=c99 tools/nbgen.c -o tools/nbgen
fi
tools/nbgen os.nb

3. Build and enjoy!

If this does not work it could be something with wine and the yang tool.
So I also attached a different one. Try that out with this command:

tools/yang -F RHODIMG.NBH -f os.nb -t 0x400 -s 64 -d RHOD****0 -c 11111111 -v Tinboot -l WWE >> tools/log

Good luck!