Ready-made kernel, XO-1, Xubuntu, and initrd questions

[James Cameron]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:40:21AM +0000, Alec Muffett wrote:
> I have a G1G1-era XO-1 and am trying to put Xubuntu onto it, using
> Virtualbox to do the setup and build on OSX, and then dd'ing the raw
> image to a 4Gb SD-card for booting. I'm using the current
> Xubuntu-alternate CD to build the image, and then approximately
> following the Wiki at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ubuntu_Lucid_on_OLPC_XO regards getting a
> kernel installed.

I never really liked that method, because it was imaging an existing
installation over to an XO from a virtual machine ... seemed difficult
to reproduce in an automated fashion.

So I wrote my own scripts in September last year that built a
filesystem using debootstrap:

git://dev.laptop.org/users/quozl/uxo

This used two kernels, one for XO-1, one for XO-1.5, with an olpc.fth
that decided between them.

The initrd was included and worked fine.

default.conf is where the kernels are specified.

C_KERNEL=2.6.31_xo1-20110320.1409.1.olpc.3d8536c28d6c5a1
C_KERNEL_ORIGIN=http://dev.laptop.org/~kernels/olpc-2.6.31-xo1
D_KERNEL=2.6.31_xo1.5-20110320.1401.1.olpc.3d8536c28d6c5a1
D_KERNEL_ORIGIN=http://dev.laptop.org/~kernels/olpc-2.6.31

However, I only ever booted from USB on XO-1.  The initrd might not have
liked the SD card slot.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/