Wed November 10, 2010 | Michael J. Hammel

I finally got a rootfs working with the kernel tonight. It’s a minimal rootfs built with buildroot and busybox but it boots up to a shell prompt and does just enough work to make sure ps displays the process list. Whoopeeeee!!! Now, don’t get crazy here. This is just booting […]

BeagleBox Milestone: the board boots with BeagleBox software!

Wed November 10, 2010 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / Software Development tagged BeagleBox / buildroot / busybox / cvs / initrd / kernel / u boot

I upgraded to Fedora 14 at work yesterday. For the most part the typical processes I’ve written about before worked fine. But two places exposed some caveats. First, network based installation using NFS doesn’t work. What happens is that after the bootloader info is taken some attempt to access the […]

Fedora 14 mini review

Wed November 10, 2010 in Fedora / Hardware / Linux / NVidia / x86-64 tagged boot partition / bootloader / eye candy / f14 / Fedora / grub / kernel command line / nfs / nfs mount / nvidia / nvidia cards / nvidia drivers / Open Source / virtual domains / virtual hosts

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I use ssmtp for my MTA (mail transfer agent) under Fedora. Up till now I’ve always just moved /usr/sbin/sendmail out of the way and symlinked it to where I have ssmtp installed. Today, after upgrading a work machine to F14, I finally bit the bullet and figured out how to […]