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Hello, |
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I am trying to get Gentoo running on a GiveOneGetOne (G1G1) OLPC |
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laptop. |
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I started by installing Gentoo on a generic x86 machine in kvm. The |
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disk image size for the virtual machine is set to 8GB and formatted in |
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ext2 as this corresponds to how I have partitioned and formatted an 8GB |
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Kingston DataTraveler High Speed USB 2.0 Flash drive. I used the 'small' |
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filesystem setting. |
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I understand I could also have used chroot and bypassed the emulator, |
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but this way I could boot the system and check that all required |
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services start, customize the desktop, etc... The OLPC has very modest |
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and slow hardware, doing as much of these things as I could in the |
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emulator would save time. |
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Once a virtual machine was ready, I shut it down, mounted its disk |
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image as a regular directory and copied its files over to the 8GB flash |
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drive. |
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I was able to boot the '/' partition (but NOT the gentoo-sources |
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kernel, yet) by adapting the procedure detailed here: |
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http://icrontic.com/articles/ubuntu_net_remix_olpcxo |
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Basically, you |
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- copy a signed OLPC kernel into the /boot folder of the USB drive. |
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- copy the kernel's modules into the /lib folder of the USB drive. |
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- copy a special /security folder into the / folder of the USB drive. |
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- create a special text file (olpc.fth) in the /boot folder of the USB |
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drive. |
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Once all these things are in place, you insert the USB drive into the |
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OLPC, power the OLPC ON and hold down the 'check' button and your Gentoo |
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installation boots atop the signed OLPC kernel. |
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This works well. Gnome runs, sound works. |
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Once I was able to verify that given a signed kernel the installation |
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would boot, I moved on to getting the gentoo-sources-2.6.26 kernel to |
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boot. |
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To permit this, I had to put a developer key (a file) in the /security |
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folder. Once the key is in place, the OLPC's OpenFirmware sees it and |
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permits booting unsigned kernels. |
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Now my kernel does boot and initializes some of the hardware but it |
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never succeeds in mounting the '/' partition. |
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I have a detailed listing of the run here: |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-703724.html |
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If anyone has any idea at all, I would welcome it. |
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Thanks in advance |
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J |
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