Hi Jacco, I appreciate your work on this! Minor curiosity: the release notes say that vm.swappiness=1 was put into the cmdline.txt file. Why not keep it in the (usual/standard) /etc/sysctl.conf location? That's where folks would typically look to see and adjust a kernel tunable parameter like that.
-Marc On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Jacco Ligthart <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 installed packages strange and quite outdated.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 _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users
