[fedora-arm] replacing ubuntu on sheevaplug

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Steve Grubb wrote:

> On Friday 28 August 2009 09:32:35 am Dan Horák wrote:
> > > I got an email offlist that said I need to add a reset command to the
> > > recipe. With that, I now have a sheevaplug running Fedora from a USB
> > > drive. I am taking some notes on everything I had to do so that I can
> > > help improve the docs.
> >
> > Thanks to Steve's experiments and after reading
> > http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/unpack.html I am now
> > running Fedora 11 completely from a SD card.
> 
> I wrote up a detailed HOWTO and put it here:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/SheevaplugUSB
> 
> I will hook it to the main project page in a day or two so that people can 
> review or correct it before its linked in.
> 
> If you wanted to add what changes you needed to do for the flash card at the 
> bottom, we could make a 1 page howto for different boot devices. But in any 
> event, I hope people find this documentation useful.

I don't know if the filesystem image has this by default, but 
configuring an agetty process on ttyS0 is really helpful.

	/sbin/agetty -L ttyS0 115200

This way you can log in through the USB serial link.


Nicolas