[fedora-arm] Fwd: Rawhide on MK802II A10

[Robert Brown]

Thanks Hans
On 03/02/15 00:24, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 31-01-15 05:57, Robert Brown wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi all
>> With the valued help of Hans I have a MK802II booting Rawhide XFCE and
>> displaying on hdmi.
>>
>> On boot-up from power-off the boot process stops early though and I have
>> to type boot to get it to resume. It does not seem to actually count
>> down. On a system reboot the process goes through without any problem
>> and the countdown to continue shows correctly.
>>
>> Is there a setting or flag that can be set to get over this small issue?
>
> The problem is that we do not know why your board is doing that, so we
> also do not know how to fix it.
Is there likely to be something buried in the logs/journctl that I could 
search for?
>
>> A second question is to do with the detection of hdmi. I understand that
>> if the unit does not see a powered-up hdmi port the boot will stop. Is
>> there a way to get the system to ignore this check as I am hoping to
>> boot this one headless.
>
> I think you've misunderstood how things work here, 
very likely
> u-boot will wait for
> hdmi hpd (so cable detected) for 0.5 seconds to give some hdmi<->vga
> dongles a time to wake-up, and then if there is no hdmi happily
> continues without using a video console. 
Ok thanks for clarifying.

Rob