Hi All, Al Hopper was very kind and offered me, to host the new RedSleeve image for the raspberry pi. It can be found here: http://cdn.opensxce.org/redsleeve/el6/rootfs/
In the next couple of days I will probably make an update to this image with a new kernel, from the raspberry community. Thanks Al! Jacco On 08/17/2014 02:22 PM, Jacco Ligthart wrote: > Hi List, > > As a longtime RedHat user I was happy to see the redsleeve initiative > for my raspberry. > However I tried the image a couple of times the past year or so and > found it quite broken. This week I made a new effort with the result > that I now have a new image, which I would like to share with you. > > Is there a place where I can upload around 110MB ? > > For reference, the most annoying 'brokenness' was, that an attempt to > resize the image on your SD-card would result in a non-bootable system. > For the resize you'd need to install e2fsprogs, which includes > /sbin/fsck.ext4 . When this file is present the rc-scripts would try to > fsck on boot and fail with a warning of "unable to fsck a mounted file > system" (see > http://lists.redsleeve.org/pipermail/users/2013-June/000227.html) > The reason was that the 'ro' option was missing in the kernel command line. > > Besides this there were some errors present on boot, due to missing > commands and missing users. And last but not least, I found the list of > installed packages strange and quite outdated. > > I tried to make the list of installed packages resemble (as reasonably > as possible) the list of a default minimal install of the most recent > CentOS. > > As attachments to this mail I include my notes from the image creation > and a list of package differences to CentOS-minimal. > > Open Items: > * during boot I see a message "init: rcS main process (44) terminated > with status 1", which I was not able to debug yet. > * I quite often see messages like "Unknown HZ value! (45) Assume 100." > which is probably due a kernel/system mismatch somewhere (the kernel in > this image is not Redsleeve !) > * Should we update the kernel to a more recent version from > raspbian/pidora ? > * In a previous attempt to use redsleeve I found, that I could not > compile new kernel modules due to missing kernel source. > * The timezone is now 'EDT' (as it was in the previous image), does > 'UTC' make more sense? > * I think pidora has some scripts somewhere to "resize the image" and to > "create a swap file", should we include them into redsleeve somewhere, > or is that to big a deviation from PNAELV > * I still miss the RTC on these machines. is there a script somewhere > that sets the time to the last known date, so that (in case of missing > network connectivity) the clock never goes backwards. maybe something > like this: http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Nortc > * I found that a number of packages are lagging behind PNAELV. I'll make > a list in a separate mail. > > Regards, > > Jacco > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users
