BeagleBone Fedora

Fedora on BeagleBone

Most tutorials didn't work for me. Here's what I did to get fedora running on Beaglebone, booting from sdcard.

SDCARD

• Grep a fresh fedora arm image from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/
• Copy the image to the SDcard (using DD or Win32Diskimager)
• open the boot partition and create a file uEnv.txt
• put this into uEnv.txt

bootpart=0:1
bootdir=
loadaddr=0x81000000
bootargs='console=ttyO0,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rootwait rw rootfstype=ext4 video=omapfb:vram:2M,vram:4M'
uenvcmd=mmc init;load mmc 0 ${loadaddr} uImage;run loadfdt;setenv bootargs console=${console} ${optargs};bootm ${loadaddr} - ${fdtaddr}

• crosscompile the lastest kernel uImage. set the UIMAGE_LOADADDR > 0x80000000 and UIMAGE_LOADADDR != loadaddr from uEnv.txt

make ARCH=arm -j2 UIMAGE_LOADADDR=0x80008000 uImage

• the default uImage won't work !
• edit /etc/fstab and remove those UUIDs
• edit /etc/passwd and insert a root password

kernel modules

• build the kernel modules after you built the kernel

make -j2 ARCH=arm modules_prepare
make -j2 ARCH=arm modules
make -j2 ARCH=arm modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=../build/root

• copy the kernel modules and firmware to the fedora root partition on your beaglebone