[Voyage-linux] Installation problem

[Steve Taylor]

The saga continues. I booted my Kubuntu computer into Puppy Linux and was  
able to edit the lilo.conf file on my CF card. I changed it to read-write  
and added APCI=off. Neither change helped. Then I tried disconnecting the  
Soekris board's internal HD and then the long delays and the lost  
interrupt errors went away. Now it boots and if I then do the "remountrw"  
command all is well. Next I tried to edit the lilo.conf file in voyage  
with nano. Nano wasn't found so I tried vi which I don't know well at all.  
I was using gtkterm in Kubuntu which then got all messed up. Other people  
have also had that problem I found. Then I tried SSH into the board and  
that worked and I could edit with vi. then I tried "apt-get update" to  
prepare to install nano to see if I could. That gave we a MergeList error  
in /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian . . . and said the the package list  
could not be parsed or opened or some such thing.
Thanks,
Steve

On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:49:29 -0700, Michael Steinmann  
<mike.steinmann at gmail.com> wrote:

> try  'remountrw' and then edit whatever ...
> 'sync' or a clean reboot makes the changes permanent.
>
>
> 2010/11/4 Steve Taylor <steven.taylor56 at sbcglobal.net>
>
>> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:01:20 -0700, Wayne Lee  
>> <linkconnect at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  I found that it gives the error every 30 seconds. I went away and just
>>>> left
>>>> it on and it did finally finished booting after a 10 minute delay.
>>>> When I tried to shut it down, it stated giving me the same error  
>>>> while it
>>>> was trying to sync the files. At that point I pulled the plug.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok Guesses/things I would check
>>>
>>> Bad CF
>>> CF slot.
>>> Maybe the IDE mode can be changed
>>> APCI
>>> APM
>>>
>>
>> Interesting. I only have one CF card so I can't try another one. This  
>> one
>> was working fine in my camera from where I took it. I also don't have  
>> any
>> way to test the CF slot. I don't see any way to change the IDE mode on  
>> this
>> board.
>>
>> So, I thought, OK I can investigate the APCI and APM options. I looked  
>> at
>> my lilo.conf file and found a line in the image section that said
>> "read-only." Thinking that that might be the problem, I tried to edit  
>> the
>> file. Problem is the CF card mounts as read-only on my Kubuntu system. I
>> can't seem to find a way to edit the file. Got any suggestions? BTW,  
>> there
>> is no APCI reference either on or off in the current lilo.conf file. I  
>> also
>> noticed that when voyage is booting, there is a point where it says
>> "Mounting locale file system" and that indicates that it fails. That is
>> probably related to the read-only status. I just don't know enough about
>> this to be able to fix it my self.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
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