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!
>
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