I had been getting a warning on boot with recent kernels on my Intel Atom-based UP system, and found a workaround.. The error flagged is – apparently – harmless, and is due to systemd not being able to recognise some mmc disk partitions at that stage of the boot process.. …… [ 5.124250] systemd-gpt-auto-generator[416]: Failed to dissect: … Continue reading →
Now that the DreamPlug has a stable power supply (see previous post..) I decided to live dangerously and update the u-boot version and install a modern ‘device tree’ plus kernel.. It has been mentioned many times before that the u-boot update for a DreamPlug is fraught, and can result in a ‘brick’.. There should be a way … Continue reading →
A problem that still plagued the 3.18-rc series of kernel releases now seems to affect 3.17 as well.. I have had two complete system hangs with 3.17.3 and 3.17.4 on my main system in the last two weeks, and thought at first that these were caused by KDE and/or NVIDIA hangs, but then found that I could … Continue reading →
I have – after some messy hacking – managed to get the Raspberry Pi updated to kernel 3.8.0.. The starting point was the 3.7.1 Pi code, at https://github.com/Olipro/linux-RPi. The kernel.org patch for 3.8.0 assumes the code base is 3.7.0, so I had to ‘revert’ the 3.7.1 patch. The ‘incremental’ patches at kernel.org start with the 3.7.1 – … Continue reading →