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Keep in mind that you won't see the 'login:' prompt after booting Ubuntu 9.04 unless you configure getty to listen on /dev/ttyS2. You'll need to do this while your MicroSD card is still mounted on another host.
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If you're interfacing with your Overo with the USB serial terminal, keep in mind that you won't see the 'login:' prompt after booting Ubuntu unless you configure getty to listen on /dev/ttyS2. You'll need to do this while your MicroSD card is still mounted on another host.
  
  

Revision as of 19:10, 11 May 2009

Instructions

For some installation instructions for Ubuntu on the Gumstix Overo, click here. It's a mashup of some other tutorials that results in a working installation of Ubuntu 9.04.


Also, the previous post has some images. Video to come.


John O'Connor <john.oconnor@myokapi.net>


Tips

Serial Terminal

If you're interfacing with your Overo with the USB serial terminal, keep in mind that you won't see the 'login:' prompt after booting Ubuntu unless you configure getty to listen on /dev/ttyS2. You'll need to do this while your MicroSD card is still mounted on another host.


# cat > /path/to/rootfs/etc/event.d/ttyS0 <<EOF
start on runlevel 2
start on runlevel 3
start on runlevel 4
start on runlevel 5

stop on runlevel 0

respawn
exec /sbin/getty 115200 ttyS2
EOF


You will also need to add ttyS2 to /etc/securetty to allow root logins there:

# echo "ttyS0" > /path/to/rootfs/etc/securetty