Hi; If there is a better place to ask this question plz point me to it.
I have dl'd and dd'd the image onto a 1G PQI usb flash drive spaz$ sudo dd bs=1m if=~/Downloads/moblin-netbook-developer-beta-refresh-2009080 I then installed in on the acer and went into the bios and reordered the boot list so that USB HDD: Generic USB Flash Disk is item 1 on the boot list i select boot and hit enter. i then get the splash screen and nothing more. the led on the pqi flash drive continues to blink for a good while (because i can see that it's booting up if i edit the bootargs and get rid of 'silent') if i do an Alt-F1 i can get the login prompt. that's good. But i try and do a boot and install, i just get to a point where i have a blinking cursor at 0,0 and no ability to do an Alt-F1 to get to the login prompt. This is not a happiness inducing turn of events. I need to get work done on this cute little box! To me, this seems like X is starting up and then switching to a non-existent VT somewhere.... One other data point, when i hit the power button i do get the moblin power button screen, so it will switch back to graphics mode to that. So, is there a way to do a command line (hairy chested gentoo style :-)) installation from the login prompt? tnx for any help you can provide! johnu ps: what is so ironic about this is that i actually get further with virtualbox then i do with actual hardware, i get the installer to run to completion! so i know *exactly* what i am supposed to be seeing in the install process, it's just not working on the hardware. pps: no it doesnt work in virtualbox when i restart after the install, i just get a black and white screen that says 'mobin' and the virtual disk and net icons flash for a while but nothing cool seems to happen _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
