[plug] Installing ubuntu on ITC 350-I

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Mon Nov 14 11:37:17 WST 2005


On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 08:26, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
> All I could really recommend is install it and get it up and running 
> with 2.4 if that works. Then self-compile a 2.6 kernel (minimal, 
> failsafe) and keep going to try and boot in to it until something 
> breaks.

Good idea. How many options am I likely to need to play with though?
>  Then you've found your problem. Alternatively, a later version 
> of the kernel than whats in ubuntu may have already fixed the problem 
> (ie. a kernel from kernel.org rather than from ubuntu's source trees).
> 

Worth a shot. I'll try the pre-made kernel images first though.
> Just guessing it sounds like its putting some hardware support (from the 
> initrd maybe) thats causing lock ups. But without info on what its 
> loading at the time of the freeze, it's difficult to tell.
> 

Way to verbose or log it perhaps?
> Chris Caston wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 22:31, Chris Caston wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>>Loading /install/vmlinuz.........
> >>>Loading /install/initrd.gz.............
> >>>Ready.
> >>>_ <--- flashing cursor
> >>>
> >>>and the system appears to be frozen.
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>Any ideas?
> >>>
> >>>regards,
> >>>
> >>>Chris
> >>
> >>I just booted the Sarge installer with a 2.4 kernel.
> >>
> > 
> > I would much prefer to run 2.6 if anyone has any ideas on how I could
> > get it working.
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
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