I'm not using vmware. I have a real EEEPC here. So based on my experience on
my EEEPC I have added some comments inline and hope it could help.

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I am getting the same error message when I ran the android x86 eeepc
> in vmware.
> init: Unable to open persistent property directory /data/property
> errno: 2
> sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

It seems that it is harmless, you can ignore it for now. I have even seen
this on my EPC.

>
> # I/installer( 1975): Waiting for device: /dev/block/sdb2
>
Installer is trying to mount a partition that has system.img,userdata.img...
On the EPC, it is the second partition of my USB. So if you know the correct
dev node, you can run /system/bin/installer -p /dev/block/<correct dev node>

>
> #
>
> I'm getting a shell prompt.
>
> I cannot find an editor to modify init.rc on the shell.
> How should I edit the file?
>
you can change the init.rc in the installer source code dir and rebuild
installer.img

>
> Ultimately, I'd like to start a GUI. If everything works fine,
> does the android x86 eeepc (built following the howto posted
> in the discussion group) start a GUI?
>
Yes, it starts. If you run with vmware, you have to enable vga frame buffer
and add vga=x86 in the command line. (look for the threads posted by Chen
Yang on this mail list).

>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
> On Mar 5, 9:03 am, Sean McNeil <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Android must have a writable area that it calls /data. It places all
> > kinds of information in there including user preferences, dalvik cache,
> > etc. If you are mounting everything as / over nfs, then you probably
> > don't have a separate /data partition somewhere that is mounted rw.
> > You'll have to modify your init.rc so that it doesn't remount / as ro.
> >
> > Androidphan wrote:
> > > I'm getting the following error when booting Android over NFS:
> >
> > > Unable to open persistent property directory /data/property errno: 2
> >
> > > The kernel is load over a TFTP connection.
> >
> > > For the root filesystem I copied the dir: ../out/target/product/
> > > eee_701/root/ content to ../nfs/root/.
> > > Then I copied the ../out/target/product/eee_701/system directory to
> > > the ../nfs/root/system/
> >
> > > This directory is mounted as its root filesystem over NFS.
> >
> > > Why am I getting this error on the data directory? This directory
> > > shouldn't have anything in it at this stage right?
> >
>

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