Installing Ubuntu 9.04 on Gumstix Overo
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Revision as of 19:10, 11 May 2009 by 24.118.111.100 (Talk)
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
