[fedora-arm] Getting FC21/arm to boot on beaglebone black/beagle XM/beagleboard/Mele A2000

[Paul Whalen]

----- Original Message -----
> Forgot to ask: will Rawhide also give me gfx on A20 ? (banana pi)

I was able to boot the Xfce image from the 29th, initial-setup is displayed on the 
serial console (text), but once completed I was able to log in and use the GUI on the
Banana Pi. 

Paul

> 
> Thanks, Frans
> 
> 2015-01-29 22:54 GMT+01:00 Frans Meulenbroeks < fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com >
> :
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Hans,
> 
> Thanks for your info.That helped big time.
> I had the hdmi connected to an alternate input of my monitor and switched
> monitor input after booting....
> I did a quick test booting the board with the monitor input to HDMI and it
> worked like a charm!
> 
> Thanks again, Frans.
> 
> PS: looking forward to your talk @ Fosdem.
> 
> 2015-01-29 12:24 GMT+01:00 Hans de Goede < hdegoede at redhat.com > :
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 29-01-15 11:34, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Hans, all
> 
> Took a bit of time, but managed to do a test with
> Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-rawhide- 20150128-sda.raw.xz
> < https://kojipkgs. fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/ 6681/8756681/Fedora-Xfce-
> armhfp-rawhide-20150128-sda. raw.xz >
> 
> I also took the u-boot from that one. Md5sum:
> 0829a585ac67b135e2a9f0b1a9279c 0d u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin
> 
> I did check both VGA and HDMI but got no output on either ports.
> 
> I could ssh into the board with some effort:
> The information here:
> https://fedoraproject.org/ wiki/Architectures/ARM/F21/ Installation#FAQ
> is incomplete.
> I also had to disable selinux (the keys I had did not have an selinux
> context)
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ nl-NL/Fedora/11/html/Security-
> Enhanced_Linux/sect-Security- Enhanced_Linux-Enabling_and_
> Disabling_SELinux-Disabling_ SELinux.html
> 
> I also tried startx but it complained that no screens were found.
> 
> fpaste of dmesg:
> http://paste.fedoraproject. org/177436/42252728
> 
> fpaste of /proc/devices:
> http://paste.fedoraproject. org/177437/27367142
> 
> If there is any other info you want me to share or additional tests you
> want me to do, let me know (might take a day or so before I get to it
> though)
> 
> To get HDMI out you need to have a hdmi cable plugged in (on both ends)
> before booting the device, if no cable is detected u-boot will continue
> without initializing hdmi. Note that the current rawhide u-boot only
> does 1024x768. Upstream u-boot git master does DDC + EDID and then uses
> the monitor / tv's native resolution.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
> 
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