October 15th, 2008 | nubae
making Asus eeePC work for Ubuntu LTSP
The Asus eeePC has become an extremely popular linux based laptop, and it works great with the preinstalled OS Xandros. It is, however, a desirable thin terminal in that its small, already has a monitor and is cheap. The smaller model's screen might be a bit too small, but one can always add an external monitor, keyboard and mouse and make it a full thin terminal. In order to do that, one must fix the atl2 kernel panic bug. The instructions that follow are not mine, I found them elsewhere on the net and adapted a little:
sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 nano /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
add atl2 to the modules list.
Next update your initramfs with (where kernel-version is version number of your kernel [ie. 2.6.27-6-386):
update-initramfs -k kernel-version-number -c exit
This will update the kernel and create the initramfs that is in /boot/ under a name something like initrd.img-2.6.27-6-386. The file must now be copied from /opt/ltsp/i386/boot to /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386 after having renamed the existing one, for backup :
mv /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/kernel-version-number /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/kernel-version-number.bak cp /opt/ltsp/i386/boot/kernel-version-number /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/
You should now restart the asus eeePC and it should just work.
February 26th, 2009 | Hamlinux
I'm getting stuck at the second prompt.
After I change to root I get a command not recoognized error for nano. If I exit root and sudo as foo-user, I can access /etc/initramfs-tools/module. Will this effect the instalation of the module. I am not familiar with the usage of chroot.
Thank you.
February 26th, 2009 | ham linux
i FIGURED i COULD EDIT /etc/initramfs-tools/modules with vim whie root, but when I:
root@calvin:/# update-initramfs -k 2.6.27-7-generic -c
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
Cannot find /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
root@calvin:/# uname -r
2.6.27-7-generic
root@calvin:/#
root@calvin:/# cd /lib/modules
root@calvin:/lib/modules# ls
2.6.24-16-generic
root@calvin:/lib/modules#
I have done update-initramfs -u but /lib/modules still does not show 2.6.27-7-generic.
Please let me know what I am missing if you can
October 20th, 2010 | keymaker
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