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? Thanks for ideas Peter
Peter Ross writes:
The Asus EEE 701 has a 8GB SSD drive. Is there something "special" about the Asus I should do? Workarounds?
The 701 should have a 4GB SSD soldered onto the mainboard. It may be a 701SD. 701 4GB WFM with extlinux, though I haven't run it for many years (the keyboard keys started dying one by one, and when SPC died I finally gave up). Gave it away to be a security camera last month, so I can't check. Whenever grub gives me problems, I spend half an hour trying to repair it, fail, give up, and install extlinux. Then it works forever. YMMV.
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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