[Voyage-linux] USB Install

Fri Feb 19 09:08:35 HKT 2010

I booted the Live CD in a VM then proceeded with the steps for
"Installing Voyage Linux to a hard disk from Live CD" in the
README.live-cd except I pointed to my unmounted USB flash drive
(/dev/sda).

It boots up but /var/log/messages is filling up with this:

Feb 18 17:47:59 voyage vmunix:          res
51/04:20:00:00:00/8f:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
Feb 18 17:47:59 voyage vmunix: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Feb 18 17:47:59 voyage vmunix: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x00
driverbyte=0x08
Feb 18 17:47:59 voyage vmunix: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : 0xb
[current] [descriptor]
Feb 18 17:47:59 voyage vmunix: Descriptor sense data with sense
descriptors (in hex):
Feb 18 17:47:59 voyage vmunix:         72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a
80 00 00 00 00 00
Feb 18 17:47:59 voyage vmunix:         00 00 00 00
Feb 18 17:47:59 voyage vmunix: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
Feb 18 17:47:59 voyage vmunix: ata1: EH complete
Feb 18 17:47:59 voyage vmunix: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte
hardware sectors (160042 MB)
Feb 18 17:47:59 voyage vmunix: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Feb 18 17:47:59 voyage vmunix: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled,
read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

That block is repeated multiple times per second.

There is also a red error messages that passes by during boot up that
says "Mounting local filesystems: Failed".

df -h looks like this:

voyage:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs                963M   99M  815M  11% /
udev                   10M   24K   10M   1% /dev
/dev/disk/by-label/ROOT_FS
                      963M   99M  815M  11% /
tmpfs                 502M  872K  502M   1% /lib/init/rw
varrun                502M   56K  502M   1% /var/run
varlock               502M     0  502M   0% /var/lock
tmpfs                 502M  4.0K  502M   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                 502M     0  502M   0% /tmp
none                  502M  872K  502M   1% /var/log
none                  502M  872K  502M   1% /var/tmp

I was able to do remountrw and make a change to
/etc/network/interfaces that persisted across a reboot, so that's
partial success.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Frank Parker <mr.frank.parker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good thought on the SD card.  I should receive the Foxconn box
> tomorrow and I will search the BIOS for SD card booting.  This seems
> unlikely.
>
> On your USB install, are you able to add packages and make config file
> changes (such as /etc/hosts) and maintain those changes across
> reboots?  I had some success installing the Live CD version of Voyage
> to a USB drive but the Live CD version doesn't allow changes without
> some serious hacking.
>
> I think I need to install the standard version to USB somehow.  I'm
> still not entirely sure how to get persistent changes now that /ro is
> gone.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Joshua Anhalt <anhalt at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>> There's also an SD card slot in this box.  As long as the Foxconn box boots
>> from this, the install should be the same as a CF card.
>> Or you can netboot the system.
>> I've run voyage (0.5.2 I believe) completely from a USB stick.  I don't
>> recall which method I used to create that USB stick.  I didn't have to
>> recompile a kernel as explained in the Danny W. Adair article.  You can
>> try the second wiki article.
>> If you don't need much storage space on your USB stick, I believe you can
>> cheat, and just dd the live cd onto the usb stick. This has worked for me
>> with all recent computers.  (It will wipe out the stick, and you'll be stuck
>> with a fairly small partition.  I've manually created a second partition on
>> this type of install, just make sure to not overwrite the live cd
>> partition.)
>> Joshua
>> On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Frank Parker wrote:
>>
>> I should have been more clear.  I want to operate this device with NO
>> hard drive or CF card.  Is this possible?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Mike Steinmann
>> <mike.steinmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> you could add a SATA 2.5 HDD:
>>
>> http://www.foxconnchannel.com/Product/Barebones/NT330i/index.html
>>
>> and you can use a CF with some SATA2CF adaptor like this:
>>
>> http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/adsacf.asp
>>
>>
>>
>> 2010/2/18 Frank Parker <mr.frank.parker at gmail.com>
>>
>> I read this excellent wiki article.
>>
>> Voyage Linux on USB flash drive
>>
>> Author: Danny W. Adair danny at adair.net
>>
>> Last Change: 21 May 2006
>>
>> Do we have more recent instructions for this?  Will this procedure
>>
>> work with Voyage 0.5.x or 0.6.x?
>>
>> Also, can I install and run voyage-current completely from USB?  I
>>
>> will be installing on this device.
>>
>>
>> <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856119016&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_->
>>
>> It has Intel ATOM 330 (Dual Core 1.6GHz) CPU with up to 4GB RAM but no
>>
>> hard drive or CF card.
>>
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