[fedora-arm] Fedora 21 on Olimex Board (A10S)

[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