On 19/11/14 17:06, Peter Ross wrote:
Hi all,
I found an older ASUS EEE 701. The Ubuntu login on it was unknown and the
person who used it on company travel left a while ago.
I decided to put Debian 7.6.0 on it (BTW: FreeBSD 10 does not recognize
the WLAN). I installed "standard" (text) and all seemed fine.
Just grub refused to install.
So I installed the grub packages manually (using the "live" USB stick) and
run "grub install /dev/sda" in a chroot environment. All worked but it
still does not boot.
"grub-setup /dev/sda" seems to be working too.. I also used
"grub-mkconfig" successfully.
The Asus EEE 701 has a 8GB SSD drive.
Is there something "special" about the Asus I should do? Workarounds?
From memory: on the original setup the first 4G is a fast SSD, the
second 4G is ordinary SD. My 904 has a 16G SD to make it 20G total.
The original OS joins them together with unionfs, and there is also some
special stuff that makes the first 1G ROM. System updates go into a
512M system chunk that supplants the relevant bits in ROM. This fills
up quickly.
With the original Ubuntu install at least some of this is over written,
but maybe special magic is needed to deal with that switch to ROM. Do a
bit of googling to find out the implications - I keep meaning to do so
myself.
In the mean time I have an SD card in the external socket that I run
Fedora 20 from, boots nearly as fast as the CentOS does.
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