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| [[Category:Installation]]
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| Experience with bootstrapping 1.7.17 Alpine Linux on a CF card for PC Engines ALIX.3C2 LX800 (This information is based on the Soekris instructions)
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| We assume our CF reader is at /dev/sdb, with a 512+ MB CF formatted card loaded and will be mounted on /mnt/flash. We also assume root priviledges.
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| export FLASHDEVICE=/dev/sdb1
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| export MNT=/mnt/flash
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| First, we download the latest usbdrive tarball
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| wget http://dev.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v1.7/usbdrive/alpine-1.7.17-i386.tar.gz
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| and unpack it on our CF card
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| mount $FLASHDEVICE $MNT
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| tar xzf ../alpine-1.7.17-i386.tar.gz -C $MNT
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| Next step is to tell syslinux and the kernel we are using a serial console. We do so by creating a custom syslinux.cfg
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| cat > $MNT/syslinux.cfg <<EOF
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| serial 0 115200
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| timeout 0
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| default generic-alix
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| label generic-alix
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| kernel /kernel/generic/bzImage
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| append initrd=/kernel/generic/hd-ext3.gz rw alpine_dev=hda1:vfat root_dev=none:tmpfs alpine_base=base.tar.bz2 pkg_dev=hda1:vfat pkg_subdir=/apks cfg_dev=hda1:vfat modloop=/kernel/generic/modloop.cmg console=ttyS0,115200
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| EOF
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| Finally, we make the CF bootable
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| syslinux $FLASHDEVICE
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| umount alpine
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| Insert the flash card, and boot:
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| Linux 2.6.23-hardened-r7 #3 Thu Apr 24 09:11:33 UTC 2008 i586 unknown
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| # cat /proc/cpuinfo
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| processor : 0
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| vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
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| cpu family : 5
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| model : 10
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| model name : Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS
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| stepping : 2
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| cpu MHz : 498.049
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| cache size : 128 KB
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| fdiv_bug : no
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| hlt_bug : no
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| f00f_bug : no
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| coma_bug : no
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| fpu : yes
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| fpu_exception : yes
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| cpuid level : 1
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| wp : yes
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| flags : fpu de pse tsc msr cx8 pge cmov clflush mmx mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
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| bogomips : 997.58
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| clflush size : 32
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