[Arm-netbook] ARM HDA Advice?

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2012/7/5 Valery Yundin <yu.valery+arm at gmail.com>

> 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
>

Thanks for the info.
Do you have some more info how you did the install. Or a precooked SD image
with u-boot and boot script and maybe a kernel?
Still new to Mele so haven't really found how to do this (and yes, I'll
have to build up that knowledge eventually)

Frans

>
> 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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