Re: [fedora-arm] Fedora 21 on Olimex Board (A10S)
On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 04:39 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> > I have an A10S-OlinuXino-MICRO board.
>> >
>> > I loaded Fedora 20 on it before 21 was available and it worked fine. It
>> > would use the HDMI monitor as its display.
>>
>> You used the F-20 remix
>
> I used both the F-20 remix and the base F-20. I was thinking that the
> base F-20 could access the HDMI, just not the LCD. But, now that you
> mention it, I remember being a little frustrated that the base F-20
> didn't access any display.
We never supported base vanilla F-20 with any of the AllWinner devices
on release.
>> > I tried Fedora 21 on it today. I followed the F21 installation
>> > instructions that said to write the image to the SD card and then copy
>> > the U-Boot image for the specific card to the appropriate place. For
>> > the Place I used the same instructions as given for the other A10 and
>> > A20 boards.
>>
>> So that bit appears to have worked just fine.
>>
>> > This booted up and wrote messages to the serial port. It ended with a
>> > login prompt. If I tried to enter a username via the terminal emulator,
>> > nothing happened. It didn't seem to get any characters. So I plugged
a
>> > USB keyboard into it, but to no avail. It recognized that I had plugged
>> > a keyboard in, but wouldn't use anything I typed.
>> >
>> > Is there additional configuration that I missed?
>>
>> We don't currently support displays as there is no upstream support
>> for HDMI. If you used a disk image other than the minimal one the
>> initial-setup comes up on the graphical display. You need to use the
>> minimal image and then the initial-setup will come up on the serial
>> console and you can create users, set TZ etc.
>
> Thanks. I'll try that and see what happens.
I downloaded the Minimal image and that let me login.
Thanks for your help.
Craig