Hi! I have a G1G1-era XO-1 and am trying to put Xubuntu onto it, using Virtualbox to do the setup and build on OSX, and then dd'ing the raw image to a 4Gb SD-card for booting. I'm using the current Xubuntu-alternate CD to build the image, and then approximately following the Wiki at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ubuntu_Lucid_on_OLPC_XO regards getting a kernel installed.
At first I used the wiki instructions to pick a kernel from http://dev.laptop.org/~kernels/olpc-2.6.31-xo1/ - from this directory I chose: vmlinuz-2.6.35_xo1-20100827.0009.1.olpc.e8a1b0f901cd2b3 ...and following the instructions got my XO1 to boot successfully to a GUI login, but it would be unusable because during boot it would complain about not finding "/lib/modules/<VERSION>+" - with a trailing "+" character - and thereby could not get at trackpad or usb-mouse drivers. I checked this with Chris Ball and he said that the "+" represented a dirty kernel tree, which makes sense - but means that the wiki instructions won't work for initrd building, since the /lib/modules/<VERSION> directory won't match the kernels "<VERSION>+" build. This also made me think I was barking up the wrong tree; so I tried a different directory: http://dev.laptop.org/~kernels/public_rpms/f14-xo1/ ...and installing the most recent kernel from _that_ actually provides me with a initrd-image file ... except that the initrd is incomplete and booting it causes "/lib/modules: no such file or directory" ...and my attempts to reconstruct a initrd _for_ that kernel have been klunky failures. So at Chris' suggestion, I thought I would ask: Is there a place I can get a ready-made kernel which contains all the necessary XO1 drivers and a working initrd, or at lease an initrd which can be poked trivially to make it work for Xubuntu, please? Ideally I am looking to use the XO for wireless geomapping research, so promisc-mode drivers and a loadable bluetooth-dongle stack are desirable features. :-) [I promise to document the build once I get it running.] Many thanks! -a _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel