[Arm-netbook] ARM HDA Advice?

[Valery Yundin]

Hi,

There is a subtlety in running Ubuntu with rootfs on USB disk on Mele.
At least in my case, I had to modify a few scripts to make sure that
USB disk is given time to flush buffers. Otherwise I was getting
corrupted rootfs almost every reboot.

I changed these scripts:
/etc/init.d/umountroot  (added 5 sec delay after root unmount)
/etc/init.d/sendsigs   (disabled killing of usb-storage process just to be sure)

Valery

On 5 July 2012 10:50, Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 2012/7/5 cnxsoft <cnxsoft at cnx-software.com>
>>
>> On 05/07/2012 01:29, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>
>> You might want to peek at Amahi (www.amahi.org).
>> There is a ubuntu version released today. This one also supports ARMv7. It
>> is only tested on TI Pandaboard (OMAP4), but I am planning to install it on
>> my Mele A2000 too.
>> It is based upon ubuntu 12.04
>> If you are interested in doing the same I am more than happy to assist (I
>> am the ubuntu dev lead for amahi).
>>
>> Frans (eFfeM on irc)
>>
>> I tried it yesterday on my Mele A1000. The installation appears to work
>> (and takes over one hour when installing on an SD card), but when I restart
>> I get a lot "init: isc-dhcp-server main process ended, respawning". I assume
>> it's because I don't have an initramfs which makes upstart unhappy. I can
>> also go to http://localhost:2000 to continue the installation, but it will
>> stop after 12%, (stop: Unknown instance).
>>
>>
> Thanks for the test and for reporting back.
> SD is indeed terribly slow, that is why HD is recommended. (still need to
> sort out how to get ubuntu on a (usb) hd on mele and boot from it (maybe
> with kernel on SD))
>
> I'll try to peek into it soon (but have limited time as I am in the midst of
> a home renovation project).
> The isc-dhcp-server thing looks like a bug.
> Wrt the installation stopping at 12%. This could be network related (maybe
> triggered by a bug).
> iirc it does some apt-get installs there.
> Not sure how you got there though. If you used the official procedure you do
> not need the graphical installer.
> Did you follow this procedure: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Ubuntu ?
>
> Best regards, Frans
>
>
>
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