[gobolinux-devel] gobo on Eee PC?

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

Carlo Calica wrote:
> 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 have any unpublished changes for LiveFlash since that announcement?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.

Where?

>> 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].

I'll try the new initrd.

> 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?

Yes, it's the corrent device. fdisk says:

Disk /dev/sdb: 1028 MB, 1028653056 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3924 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        3924     1004528    b  W95 FAT32

/proc/mounts says:
 /System/Kernel/Devices/sdb1 /Mount/Media/USB\040DISK vfat
rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1002,gid=100,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,quiet
0 0

should the device be mounted when running syslinux?

It's an EeePC 900.

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