Don, Short answer, SATA is currently not supported. I ordered a sata flash device a few weeks ago. Just haven't had a chance to do any testing with it yet. There will likely need to be some additional kernel modules enabled to provide the necessary support.
If the motherboard only has sata/usb, you probably won't be able to use the hardware right now. Darrick On 09/20/2010 10:38 PM, Don Mastrovito wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to Asterisk and AstLinux, and not a Linux guru by any stretch > of the imagination. My goal was to run an Asterisk system on a small > system. Because of its small footprint, AstLinux looked like the > perfect software platform to run as an appliance. To that end, I've > tried a number of things, all resulting in failure. Not having an > old PC available, I put together a very small, but adequate system > according to the requirements of AstLinux. It is an Intel Atom > D510MO having 2 sata ports and a few USB ports. I intended to use a > compact flash card as the system disk. Here is what I've done: > > Following the documentation, I downloaded > geni586/astlinux-0.7.2-asterisk14.img.gz, gunzipped it and copied the > image to a compact flash card using physdiskwrite under windows > XP-64. That resulted in a "Boot Error" from the bios. After some > digging around, a posting on the Asterisk forums confirmed that > physdiskwrite doesn't work. > > I tried to copy the image under Centos 5.5 using dd > if=astlinux-0.7.2-asterisk14.img of=/dev/sdd. Same result. Another > attempt under Debian also gave a boot error. > > After more searching, I found a posting on Astlinux-users that > reported problems with sata drives (Can't Access TTY; Job Control > Turned Off). It turns out that if a sata drive is present, but no > media (you ejected the CF disk), this error does not occur. OK, I > can't use sata ports. This will have to be a USB based system. > > Then I tried to put the image on a USB stick using Centos and > Debian. It is worth noting that I tried a 4 different USB sticks, > all booted other operating systems (Debian, Centos, Tiny Core Linux, > and DOS) quite nicely on the D510 board, on an Intel BX975XBX2, and > on an Intel DX38BT motherboard. All pretty common > platforms. Regardless, none of the machines would boot the USB > sticks with astlinux-0.7.2-asterisk14.img. Before you ask if I know > how to use the "dd" command, I had several saved Tiny Core Linux > images that I was able to copy to the same media and boot (both USB > sticks and CF disks). I don't think my copy of > astlinux-0.7.2-asterisk14.img.gz was corrupt, as I downloaded it a > couple of times from http://www.astlinux.org/release/072. At some > point, I had also tried astlinux-0.6.7-geni586.img.gz from Source Forge. > > Time to be a bit more creative. I put astlinux-0.7.2-asterisk14.iso > on one of the same USB sticks that did not boot the AstLinux > image. It did boot. I tried to use astinstall but that > failed. More web searching turned up a posting where it was > mentioned that astinstall has been broken for quite some time. I > don't recall the forum. > > Thinking an older version might work, I had to go back to 0.4.3 > before I could get it installed. However, that is so old, it didn't > recognize the newer ACPI hardware. > > Obviously, some people do have 0.7.2 up and running. Maybe AstLinux > is only suitable for use on older hardware with IDE drives. > > This represents my evenings after work for the past week and a half, > and I'm about to give up on AstLinux. Am I completely in the dark or > is the operating environment for AstLinux too limited for my > needs? Any insight would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > don -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
