[gobolinux-devel] gobo on Eee PC?

[Carlo Calica]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon at kymatica.com> wrote:
>> Carlo made an announcement of a LiveFlash edition created especially
>> for his EEE pc, righ after the release of 014:
>>
>> http://lists.gobolinux.org/pipermail/gobolinux-devel/2008-January/003113.html
>>
>> He might have improved that edition since then, though. Carlo, do you
>> have any unpublished changes for LiveFlash since that announcement?
>

Not really.  I was too lazy to but the kernel pieces together.  But
now there is a Linux-EeePC recipe.

> When copying contents from ISO to flash, it should be cp -r
> /Mount/CD-ROM/* instead of /Mount/CD-ROM, right? otherwise the single
> CD-ROM directory is copied to the root of the flash..
>
Yes

> The instructions doesn't mention if the flash partition should be made
> bootable with fdisk, I guess it should?
>
> Anyhow, when I try this my Eee says "invalid or damaged bootable partition".
>
> Is it possible that this doesn't work on all usb flashsticks?
>
This can be tricky.  It depends on how the usb stick is partitioned.
The 014.01 was tested on a flash that was partitioned as a normal
disk.  Early august got a report that it didn't work on a stick
partitioned as a superfloppy (no partition table, single block device
at sdX).  Needed to update initrd, new one can be found at [1].

Now, your error implies it can't find syslinux.  Are you sure you ran
syslinux on the right block device.  could you show the correct line
from /proc/mounts when the stick is mounted.  Maybe the output from
fdisk as well.  Also, which model EeePC?

> BTW, Would it be hard to replace the kernel on the livecd/flash with the
> original asus-xandros-Eee one? There's also this one that might be
> interesting: http://www.array.org/ubuntu/index.html
>
I think most of the needed patches are available somewhere.

> I'm really interested in creating a GobeeeLinux for the Eee where
> everything works out of the box. :) I've just set up a lightweight
> rox-filer + icewm desktop, with super-simple automounting using only
> udev and some shellscripts, etc..
>

Very interesting.  This is motivation I desperately need.

[1] http://www.calica.com/gobolinux/iso/initrd


-- 
Carlo J. Calica