[Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for Uruguay

[Martin Langhoff]

2008/6/5 Tony Pearson <tpearson at us.ibm.com>:
> Hardware:

Nice hw! But the sata controler might not be supported. When you load
F8 64-bit or Ubuntu,

 - what does lspci say about the SATA controller?
 - what kernel module loads for it? (dmesg will name it)

> Problem 1:  I boot from XS-163.iso and select "Run from Image" (the first
> choice) and it claims that "ATI Radeon 1200" is not supported, and that it

It often complains about graphics cards. Nothing to worry about -
Compiz won't be enabled on the XS ;-)

> Problem 2: I log in as "root" and run the "./olpc-install" and it fails on
> line 23 saying "Specified nonexistent disk sda in clearpart command" with a
> big red button to "reboot". (see attached JPG file:  img_4751b.jpg for
> screen shot)

Recent images are "auto install" so you don't need to run olpc-install
by hand...

>  Would that work?  If I do that, would I be better off doing Fedora7-AMD64
> instead or stay with the 32-bit version?

Unfortunately, we have a few custom packages that are compiled 32-bit
only (nothing too bad, just a recompile away) - but I think your
problem is with missing drivers in F7. Can you try installing F7
32bits?

> Problem 3: the BIOS supports three settings:  IDE, RAID and AHCI.  With
> RAID, I can hit Ctrl-F to get to the FastBuild utility, and put the two
> drives into a single RAID-1 configuration, however, it does not seem that
> Linux recognizes that.  With the two drives as one Logical RAID-1 drive, the
> Linux treats this as separate /dev/sda and /dev/sdb drives.

No idea bout AHCI or fakeraid - sorry

Now - one point I'd like to understand better - when you say "for
uruguay" you don't mean the Ceibal team, right? (From OLPC
perspective, if you talk about schoolservers in Uruguay, the Ceibal
team is what I think of...). You are doing this for the Edublog
Uruguay team... yes?

cheers,



m
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