Fedora 21 on Olimex Board (A10S)

[Craig Lanning]

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.

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.

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?

Craig

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 12:38 AM, Craig Lanning
 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 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.

Peter

[Craig Lanning]

Thanks for a quick answer.

On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 02:13 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 12:38 AM, Craig Lanning
>  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.
> > 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.

Craig

[Peter Robinson]

> > > 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.
>
> Craig

[Craig Lanning]

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