On 05/28/2014 07:09 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I am now the proud owner of a Cubieboard2. This is going to be a test system and a while before I invest in more hardware. The plan is Android on NAND and Fedora20 on an 8GB microSD. But what will I need for Redsleeve testing?
Way to change kernel parameters at boot time (e.g. uboot or similar) so you can point it at the different rootfs. You should use whatever kernel it shipped with. Note that default console may be serial rather than HDMI or whatever that device has, so you may need to modify your initrd to get the GPU/HDMI driver loaded, or add relevant commands to an executable file in /etc/sysconfig/modules (standard RH/Fedora way of loading modules early during init).
I would rather hold off on installing on a sata drive, doing my initial testing on SD. It handles SD up to 32GB, but right now all I have are 8GB cards in stock.
You only need it to be big enough to contain the basic rootfs. Format it as ext4, extract the tarball, copy /lib/modules and /lib/firmware from whatever media it shipped with (they may be in different locations on custom distros, just copy the .ko files to /lib/modules), and it should start.
I don't have a Cubieboard2 so I cannot offer you any specific advice on that. You might want to look at the howtos on the wiki - maybe one of the devices documented there is similar, and if you read through them you'll get a better general idea on how to make it work.
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