The ‘default’ Fedora 13 system for ARM mounts the root as nfs.. To change it to the (correct) ext3, modify /etc/fstab as follows: # cat /etc/fstab /dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 1 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs … Continue reading →
For Fedora 13 on the APC, the console on the usb/uart connection will ‘vanish’ on boot, after ………. Starting sshd: [ OK ] To get it back, and allow login as root, add the following to /etc/securetty: ttyS0 and modify /etc/sysconfig/init: from ACTIVE_CONSOLES=/dev/tty[1-6] to ACTIVE_CONSOLES=”/dev/tty[1-6] dev/ttyS0″ To stop the (re)login prompt from appearing over the console boot … Continue reading →
After all the pioneering work done to get a compiled working version of the APC kernel by Mike Thompson from the Raspbian project, as described in a previous post, I now have Fedora Linux running on the APC. I had planned to be able to get Fedora 17 working, but the APC kernel (vintage 2010!) is just … Continue reading →