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? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
