hi Brian:
   You are using the installer.img which is used to work as a USB
installer for eeepc, after it installs, it can start the gui
correctly.
--
 Chen

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Brian <bgc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am getting the same error message when I ran the android x86 eeepc
> in vmware.
> init: Unable to open persistent property directory /data/property
> errno: 2
> sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
> # I/installer( 1975): Waiting for device: /dev/block/sdb2
>
> #
>
> I'm getting a shell prompt.
>
> I cannot find an editor to modify init.rc on the shell.
> How should I edit the file?
>
> Ultimately, I'd like to start a GUI. If everything works fine,
> does the android x86 eeepc (built following the howto posted
> in the discussion group) start a GUI?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
> On Mar 5, 9:03 am, Sean McNeil <seanmcne...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Android must have a writable area that it calls /data. It places all
>> kinds of information in there including user preferences, dalvik cache,
>> etc. If you are mounting everything as / over nfs, then you probably
>> don't have a separate /data partition somewhere that is mounted rw.
>> You'll have to modify your init.rc so that it doesn't remount / as ro.
>>
>> Androidphan wrote:
>> > I'm getting the following error when booting Android over NFS:
>>
>> > Unable to open persistent property directory /data/property errno: 2
>>
>> > The kernel is load over a TFTP connection.
>>
>> > For the root filesystem I copied the dir: ../out/target/product/
>> > eee_701/root/ content to ../nfs/root/.
>> > Then I copied the ../out/target/product/eee_701/system directory to
>> > the ../nfs/root/system/
>>
>> > This directory is mounted as its root filesystem over NFS.
>>
>> > Why am I getting this error on the data directory? This directory
>> > shouldn't have anything in it at this stage right?
> >
>

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