Painting the garage door

Monday:

too yellow...

Tuesday:

too red... 

Wednesday:

too purple...

Thursday:

too blue ...

Friday:

too green ....

Saturday:

just right! And that's enough painting for this year.

Linux on the Ockel Sirius B - part 2

It works!

Use the EUFI update that is included with the Ubuntu instructions on http://www.ockelproducts.com/support/#a6857fbe0003d9f3e to convert to a 64 bit UEFI. Now you can install a normal distro. Running Fedora Core 23, to get wireless working i did a modprobe on brcmfmac. I also copied the firmware from the Ockel website, not sure if that is required.

Linux on the Ockel Sirius B - part 1

Initially i thought this was going to be easy, unfortunately all distros i tried to boot from gave me exactly the same result: EUFI 32bit shell. Never ever booted from the usb stick.

Finally found these two posts:

• https://blogs.intel.com/evangelists/2015/07/22/why-cheap-systems-run-32-bit-uefi-on-x64-systems/
• http://blogs.intel.com/evangelists/2015/08/11/update-on-ia32-uefi-and-linux-support/ 

Copied Debian Multiarch 8 on a usb stick using dd (from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/multi-arch/iso-dvd/ )

Switch off secure boot.

So now for the first time i got past the eufi shell!

Install runs ok, didn't find a network device (should be wireless), boots but doesn't go into graphics. Log in and startx doesn't seem to make it very happy: looks like the graphics mode is on,but still shows the prompt. Not that it does anything. I can switch to other terminal using ctrl+alt+Fx.


Update: saw that there is info on the Ockel website on how to do this: http://www.ockelproducts.com/support/#a6857fbe0003d9f3e will give that a shot later!