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
<craig.t.lanning(a)gmail.com&gt; 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
>  <craig.t.lanning(a)gmail.com&gt; 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