Hi.
I've just got my first E3 booting Linux 2.6.17 using the Wiki guidelines.
It's great to see a Tux logo on the E3 display with the kernel boot messages going past, and to have a command line at the other end of the serial port.
I have two questions:
1. How do I enable the E3's keyboard/s so that I can use the ash shell from there as well as (or instead of) on the end of the serial port?
(I've tried changing the kernel boot arguments from "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8" to "console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0"; I've tried just "console=tty0" and I've tried no console definition at all.)
2. Now that I know I have a 2.6.27 kernel which works on the machine, is there a way to load this into the onboard flash so that the machine boots standalone into real Linux, instead of having to use the serial cable every time?
Thanks,
Antony.
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:57:40PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
I have two questions:
- How do I enable the E3's keyboard/s so that I can use the ash shell
from there as well as (or instead of) on the end of the serial port?
(I've tried changing the kernel boot arguments from "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8" to "console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0"; I've tried just "console=tty0" and I've tried no console definition at all.)
You need to edit /etc/inittab and ensure there's a line like:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
I believe the default initrd only has a getty on the serial console.
- Now that I know I have a 2.6.27 kernel which works on the machine,
is there a way to load this into the onboard flash so that the machine boots standalone into real Linux, instead of having to use the serial cable every time?
Have you looked at the E3_release_v2.tar.gz tarball in ftp://the.earth.li/pub/e3/ ? It's not 100% reliable, but I've had a few reports of success from people.
J.
On Sunday 03 September 2006 19:05, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:57:40PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
- How do I enable the E3's keyboard/s so that I can use the ash shell
from there as well as (or instead of) on the end of the serial port?
You need to edit /etc/inittab and ensure there's a line like:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
I believe the default initrd only has a getty on the serial console.
Ah, right, that did the trick - thanks :)
I'd forgotten to check something as basic as whether getty was listening - I'm too used to distros spawning at least 6 of them that I hadn't looked here :)
Have you looked at the E3_release_v2.tar.gz tarball in ftp://the.earth.li/pub/e3/ ? It's not 100% reliable, but I've had a few reports of success from people.
Yes, I found that whilst poking around in my downloads this afternoon, and I can confirm that:
a) it works fine for me too (on an E3 bought in March from Tesco, and never plugged into a phone line)
b) the time taken to write the NAND backup to the USB drive was much less than the README or the on-screen instructions suggested - just a few minutes in total
Now I just need to buy a few USB Ethernet adapters to get the E3s plugged in to the world sensibly :)
Well done with the project, and thanks for your help (and thanks for the UKUUG talk, too, by the way).
Antony.
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Jonathan McDowell