Ubuntu Netbook Remix 1.01

Here is how you do it:
1. Download the .img file from here:
http://oem-images.canonical.com/unr/unr-1.0.1.img
2. Insert your USB stick into a port.
3. Open your file manager and from File select Terminal
4. in the terminal menu go to the directory where the .img file is.
5. type the following in the terminal (assuming that your usb is on /dev/sdb:
sudo dd if=unr-1.0.1.img of=/dev/sdb
6. After it finishes the USB write process restart your AAO and press F12 to select the boot source.
7. When you run *this* ubuntu it will overwrite your Linpus SSD - *you have been warned*.

Good luck.

 

Do you mean Thunar File Manager when right-clicking on my desktop and go via "System" or simply choose it at the top from the same right-click-menu? Are they maybe the same??

How do I do that, I mean what do I type?

It is but I also have /dev/sdb1. Don't ask me how I did to get that because my head is in a state of chaos from all the different solutions I tried last few days.

Thanks! Something tells me I'm gonna need it, just a peculiar feeling I have.
:lol:

Best regards,

HanDerre

 

Two questions:

1. Did wireless work or did it kinda work. It kinda worked for me, with numerous disconnects and sloppy performance, until I updated madwifi. After that, it worked OK.[/*:m:3q9qw97b]
2. How did you test the battery life? What load did you use? While I haven't really ran it dry yet, I've been doing some light browsing and offline-reading (working myself through some e-book), and after ~ 1.5 hours it was still claiming it was at 50% capacity. I didn't do an awful amount of power saving tricks, other than the ones that reduce writes to the SSD[/*:m:3q9qw97b]

The cardreaders work for me, when I boot with an SD card installed.

 

Wireless worked all the time for what I did, but I have the idea that intrepid with the last madwifi-hal was a little bit faster from time to time.
I started up with fully loaded battery (no ac) and just worked until the led for the battery starts to blink. I just look at the clock what time it is and how long I could work. The difference seems to be about 5 minutes, although it might be less.

Cardreaders must be hotpluggable for me to say that they work. I take a lot of pictures these days and I can't reboot for every time I want to view the photo's.

 

Can someone tell me what kernel run on that Ubuntu Netbook Remix 1.01???

Thanks

 

Linux version 2.6.24-19-lpia (root@macbook) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Mon Nov 3 15:25:26 UTC 2008

 

This is a old kernel...

 

SICKBOY - Thanks so much for the advice to use image writer. That did the trick!

 

The silly thing is that if you boot it with a card installed, it will happily be hotpluggable afterwards - In fact, having a SD card in the left bay enables the one on the right as well.

A custom kernel could fix this, though.

 

I have not managed to get this running. I ran the install which seemed to hang with a black screen towards the end but finally gave the message to remove th USB key and it rebooted. After reboot it hangs at the Ubuntu boot splash screen. Any ideas ?

EDIT: I rewrote my USB key and redid the install which claimed to have completed successfully. It still hangs on boot at the Ubuntu splash screen

 

Just a tip about installing: I wrote the image on a 8 GB USB key with ImageWriter. When I tried to install the first time, the installation process generated a lot of read errors, but at the end the installer reported a successful installation. Yet when I rebooted, X wouldn't start, I would always end up in the console, and after a long time (at least one minute) error messages would appear on tty1 (CTRL-ALT-F1) that X couldn't be started.

I read somewhere that installing with a too big USB key could cause problems. So I repartitioned my 8 GB key with only one 1.05GB partition (the UNR image is 1.03 GB) then I rewrote the image on the key with ImageWriter. That time the installation worked.

However, my first attempt was only on battery power. The second one was under current. Could that be the cause? I doubt it.

I have the A110L with Intel 8 GB SSD.

 

Yeah, I've been waiting for someone to report they tried hardran3's procedure.

I wonder if kernelcheck would work on the LPIA architecture. Haven't had time to try yet.

SD ports won't work (read: hot-pluggable) even with the 8.04.1 fix, so I hope recompiling the kernel would fix the problem. I'm coping with a Kingston SDHC minireader that's not much bigger than a regular USB key.

I tried the fix for the wifi switch, but I can't see anything happening when I hit the switch. I sure hope that the NetworkManager menu does kill wifi when I disable wifi.

Even with those problems, I'm so relieved I don't have to tolerate Linpus Linux Lite a second more. It's so bad I'm forced to recommend the Windows XP version to people who query me about my gadget.

 

I just thought I'd ask, am I the only one who's NOT getting the SSD wear prevention and other stuff working from rc.local?
It won't run any of the 'echo' commands (dirty writebacks etc..) from there, and I've tried running them as an sh-script at boot-up too and it won't work. After a normal boot-up I can run the commands from terminal with no problems...

Do I have some idiotic mistake somewhere that I'm missing? :$


Otherwise the UNR works like a charm for me, except for the wifi that's a bit funky.
Getting about 5 ½ hours runtime on normal browsing and irc use on acer 6-cell battery


Edit: Does anyone have any pointers on how to convert the EXT3 filesystem to EXT2 on the primary partition?

 

The current version of Kernelcheck does not work with this lpia kernel, already tried that.

 

I had to do mikespugs grub/fstab fix (earlier in thread) for it to boot up after converting to ext2. At least I believe thats what did it for me, but I might have tinkered with some other bits in between..

 

Been wondering, are there any benefits to running this as opposed intrepid-lpia? Other than the fact that this pretty much works out of the box I mean .

Btw, those of you having trouble with the installation stopping at::

Found USB flash drive at /dev/sdb
will mount root from /dev/sdb

Make sure you dd the image to the device (f.ex. /dev/sdb), and not the partition (/dev/sdb1). I made that mistake at first and it was really annoying having to copy it twice (my usb stick is *really* slow), especially after spending a few hours trying to get the (broken) ubuntu-8.10-alternate-lpia.iso working .

 

There was some previous discussion on this here:
http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=164&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=10#p1177

I haven't tried it, but will do so if I manage to get unr1.01 to boot.

 

Please could you post what you have in your grub & fstab files ? I can't get my A1 to boot after converting to ext2.

EDIT: The boot sequence hangs when trying to mount /dev/sda1 on /root with an error message that /root/bin is not found. Can anyone point me in the right direction ?

 

well, I can quote you mine

My /etc/fstab (Relevant line is the first one):

Code:

/dev/sda1	    /	            ext2,noatime defaults	0 0
proc			/proc			proc	defaults	0 0
tmpfs      /var/log        tmpfs        defaults           0    0
tmpfs      /tmp            tmpfs        defaults           0    0
tmpfs      /var/tmp        tmpfs        defaults           0    0

My /boot/grub/menu.lst:

Code:

# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
#            grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
#            grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
#            and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/.

## default num
# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and
# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
#
# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not use 'savedefault' or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default		0

## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout		0

## hiddenmenu
# Hides the menu by default (press ESC to see the menu)
hiddenmenu

# Pretty colours
#color cyan/blue white/blue

## password ['--md5'] passwd
# If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive editing
# control (menu entry editor and command-line)  and entries protected by the
# command 'lock'
# e.g. password topsecret
#      password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/
# password topsecret

#
# examples
#
# title		Windows 95/98/NT/2000
# root		(hd0,0)
# makeactive
# chainloader	+1
#
# title		Linux
# root		(hd0,1)
# kernel	/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
#

#
# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below

## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs

## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
##      kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
##      kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro

## Setup crashdump menu entries
## e.g. crashdump=1
# crashdump=0

## default grub root device
## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
# groot=(hd0,0)

## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. alternative=true
##      alternative=false
# alternative=true

## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. lockalternative=true
##      lockalternative=false
# lockalternative=false

## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=quiet splash elevator=noop

## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options
## e.g. lockold=false
##      lockold=true
# lockold=false

## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenhopt=

## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenkopt=console=tty0

## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
##      altoptions=(recovery) single
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single

## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
##      howmany=7
# howmany=all

## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option
## e.g. memtest86=true
##      memtest86=false
# memtest86=true

## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system
## can be true or false
# updatedefaultentry=false

## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options
## can be true or false
# savedefault=false

## ## End Default Options ##

title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-lpia
root		(hd0,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-lpia root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet splash elevator=noop
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-lpia
quiet

title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-lpia (recovery mode)
root		(hd0,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-lpia root=/dev/sda1 ro single
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-lpia

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

 

@pienjo,
Thanks for the response. I modified my menu.lst and fstab to look like yours but unfortunately the machine still won't boot. :twisted: