[fedora-arm] Fedora 21 Allwinner A10 Booting?

[Robert Brown]

On 08/12/14 22:36, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> On 12/08/2014 06:30 AM, Robert Brown wrote:
>> On 08/12/14 22:11, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> On 12/08/2014 05:16 AM, Robert Brown wrote:
>>>> Thanks for the reply.
>>>> On 08/12/14 14:43, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Robert Brown 
>>>>> <rebrown at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>>>>>> Anyone working on a FC21 image for the A10? My device does not 
>>>>>> give me
>>>>>> access to a serial monitor so am hoping to change the dtb file 
>>>>>> for the A10
>>>>>> on a remix build and get this unit booting on 3.17.
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> You don't mention what your device is but a change in the .dtb won't
>>>>> fix the lack of display, there's a complete lack of driver,
>>>> Yes my wording could have been better.
>>>> Changing the .dtb was only about getting the device to boot as I 
>>>> realise hdmi is not yet ready.
>>>> The device is a Rikomagic MK802II. Booting it headless with 3.17 is 
>>>> my aim but the soldering job for a serial console is a challenge 
>>>> beyond my soldering skills - see 
>>>> http://www.rikomagic.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2488
>>>> so am hoping some-one with a compatible device such as Mele A1000 
>>>> or CB1 could develop an image. A howto for the build and to get 
>>>> wireless configured for an ssh connection is an alternative.
>>>
>>> You could just try booting without serial console if you provide 
>>> --norootpass on building the SD card.   SSHD permits logging in as 
>>> root, just don't do this on the Internet, as you are sitting wide open!
>> I think I would need to manually configure and select my local 
>> network SSID and passphrase to get it on the network so I can ssh to 
>> it. A new world for me under systemd.
>
> After first boot, you can see what interface name it used, the create 
> an appropriate ifcfg- file.  They still work.
>
>>>
>>> Thinking about the firstboot script the only really needed things it 
>>> does is set the timezone and root password.  You can add your user 
>>> after logging in as root.
>>>
>>> I would suspect that if no serial console, it just comes up as ready 
>>> as possible.  All you need is your WiFi to be working; that is a 
>>> pretty big assumption.  You might have to get a supported ethernet 
>>> dongle.
>> As above.
>>>
>>> What has happened in booting without a serial console so far?
>> I am running blind so I either see a new connection open up when I do 
>> an nmap search from my PC or more likely there is no new connection 
>> for the reasons I mention. The real trick is to know if I have even 
>> had a successful boot.
>
> What else are you going to do right now but try?
So on my attempts using Fedora-LXDE-armhfp-21-5-sda.raw.xz written to 
the sdcard using the manual instructions here 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F21/Installation
including writing the appropriate u-boot to the media

and setting up wpa using tips from 
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/WpaSupplicant with edits of 
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0

I don't believe the boot is getting very far as messages in /var/log is 
empty.

Maybe because I am not yet logged in. Tried setting autologin  in 
lxdm.conf.

Still tryin' stuff.