Congrats Robert! Well done! I like your dogged persistence. And thanks for providing the play-by-play. I learned a *lot* following it.
Gordan - you're the man! Regards, On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Robert Moskowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08/08/2014 05:31 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: > >> On 08/08/2014 08:11 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> I now have almost a cookbook to build Redsleeve boot SDdisk for my >>> Cubieboard2. Up to logging in to the console. Still no login on the >>> monitor; back to that. >>> >> >> When you say no login, you mean you get boot output on the screen but no >> login prompt? If so, hit Alt-F2. >> > > The magic formula. But why is it needed??? > > logged in on the video/kybd now. > > >> For debugging purposes getty doesn't run on the first terminal because it >> clears the screen when it starts. >> >> I struggled with the fstab. First I had to find out the UUIDs of swap >>> and rootfs, then fsck yelled about the date, as the Cubieboard2 does >>> not have a RTC, so it boots up at long ago. Here is the important part >>> of my fstab: >>> >>> UUID=98dae9d0-e1e4-494b-8502-be8c7aad615f / ext4 >>> defaults,noatime 0 0 >>> UUID=4ec1423a-34a5-4263-b44d-7c2172de982d swap swap >>> defaults,noatime 0 0 >>> >>> Note the change of the <pass> option to ZERO to get past the check. I >>> build a swap partition, eventhough the original fstab did not list a >>> swap. Is swap disabled elsewhere in this setup? >>> >> >> Shouldn't be. If you have a swap partition and you specify it in fstab it >> should get used. >> > > FIne. Justed weirded out to see 0 swap used. > > >> # free >>> total used free shared buffers cached >>> Mem: 1010260 51304 958956 0 5460 23540 >>> -/+ buffers/cache: 22304 987956 >>> Swap: 1000444 0 1000444 >>> >>> Editing fstab is the only step that takes some effort. Everything else >>> is close to cutandpaste from my cookbook. >>> >>> >>> So on to the no monitor login and no response when I do type on the >>> keyboard (my typing is echoed onto the monitor). >>> >>> All suggestions accepted! >>> >> >> Hit Alt-F2 and then try. :) >> > > and working! > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Al Hopper
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