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Hello community,
I've downloaded my image from this website http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/boards-and-kits/intel-galileo-boards/000005614.html Software Downloads for Intel® Galileo Gen 2 Board (SD-Card Linux* Image), extracted the files with 7-zip and copied to a sd card.
I'm using FTDI cable and when booting ends, this is my prompt ( / # ). When I ran command uname -ra, this is the response:
/ # uname -ra
Linux (none) 3.8.7-yocto-standard # 1 Thu Oct 16 16:06:45 PDT 2014 i586 GNU/Linux
These are the files on root level of my sd card:
/media/mmcblk0p1 # ls
System Volume Information
boot
bzImage
core-image-minimal-initramfs-clanton.cpio.gz
image-full-galileo-clanton.ext3
Why is my Linux distribution listed as none ? Could somebody help me, please? Thanks.
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Hi PaulaK,
I think it's a yocto-related issue. As the web site states (https://www.yoctoproject.org/ https://www.yoctoproject.org/):
"
It's not an embedded Linux distribution
– it creates a custom one for you
"
HTH,
Fernando.
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Hi Fernando,
I'm kinda lost here, which image should I use? I found 3, apparently, different images on Intel's website.
https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/iotdk/board-boot-image.html IoT Download - Board Boot Image (iot-devkit-1.5-i586)
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/boards-and-kits/intel-galileo-boards/000005614.html Software Downloads for Intel® Galileo Gen 2 Board (the image I downloaded, and got that "error")
https://software.intel.com/en-us/iot/hardware/galileo/downloads IoT - Intel® Galileo Board Download | Intel® Developer Zone (iot-devkit-201510010757-mmcblkp0-galileo.direct)
What is the "big linux" one? And what are the differences between them?
Thanks
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Hi PaulaK,
A very good question... Maybe this is one of the first problems I've faced, and I think I only have partial explanations... which I think is due to unexplained Intel changes/decisions. I've explained some of my/the problems in another recent thread:
Specifically about
https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/iotdk/board-boot-image.html IoT Download - Board Boot Image (iot-devkit-1.5-i586)
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/boards-and-kits/intel-galileo-boards/000005614.html Software Downloads for Intel® Galileo Gen 2 Board (the image I downloaded, and got that "error")
https://software.intel.com/en-us/iot/hardware/galileo/downloads IoT - Intel® Galileo Board Download | Intel® Developer Zone (iot-devkit-201510010757-mmcblkp0-galileo.direct)
I think that the first one is a previous version of the last one... but maybe I'm wrong. If that is true (someone at Intel should confirm), both are aka "EGLIBC based". I do not know what that exactly means, beyond that it is different from the other image, "UCLIBC based".
The image in the link http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/boards-and-kits/intel-galileo-boards/000005614.html Software Downloads for Intel® Galileo Gen 2 Board is also referred to as "UCLIBC based", and is (much) smaller than the "EGLIBC based" one. I used for several months without any problem for (Arduino) sketches persistency and some small size development (e.g. a small python web server). Then, someone pointed out that Intel stated in a page at its site that the UCLIBC based image was not going to be supported anymore (take a look at the first link above). Now that page at Intel does not exist anymore and I did not find any explanation about... maybe I should start a specific thread with this question...
I (strongly) suggest you download the image you need: start at http://galileo.intel.com/ http://galileo.intel.com/ and follow the step-by-step guide selecting the IDE/OS/etc. you are going to use. It's what I've made and It has worked so far. I'm not an expert (far of being one, actually) in the sense I've not developed a lot, I've mostly tried to learn and in some cases take advantage of the Galileo integrated hardware such as SD and Ethernet hardware.
HTH,
Fernando.
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Hey Fernando,
Thank you so much for your answer.
I've followed the step by step tutorial with the image.direct and it all worked it out. The only thing I can not understand is why my image is Linux galileo and not Linux clanton like I see in many many threads. Is that a special image?
Thanks
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PaulaK wrote:
Hey Fernando,
Thank you so much for your answer.
I've followed the step by step tutorial with the image.direct and it all worked it out. The only thing I can not understand is why my image is Linux galileo and not Linux clanton like I see in many many threads. Is that a special image?
Thanks
Hi PaulaK,
I think yocto builds special images by its design goals, but nothing else beyond that, I don't know about image names/naming conventions neither yocto nor Intel yocto ones...
Fernando.
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Hi PaulaK,
Are you talking about the hostnames? I mean root@galileo instead of root@clanton?
If this is the case it is just the hostname of the board, and can be edited in /etc/hostname. In the previous versions the hostname was clanton.
Regards,
Charlie
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Hi Charlie,
Yes, that's it. I thought if I didn't see Linux clanton(...), it was a sign that I wasn't running the big/full linux image that we generally see in threads.
Thank you very much. Can you please confirm me if the most recent image is from https://software.intel.com/en-us/iot/hardware/galileo/downloads IoT - Intel® Galileo Board Download | Intel® Developer Zone ?
Galileo running the image of link above.
root@galileo:~# cat /etc/version
201510010732
root@galileo:~# uname -ra
Linux galileo 3.8.7-yocto-standard # 1 Tue Sep 29 22:16:33 GMT 2015 i586 GNU/Linux
Many thanks to Charlie and Fernando
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