Hi,
I ordered a Ben Nanonote from Tuxbrain around the middle of November.
After a long delay caused by the Swedish postal service it arrived and
last friday I finally got my chance to start playing around with it. I
did what every sane (heh) hacker would do the first couple of days by
spending hours on customizing, coding and updating the gadget.
Pretty soon I felt that despite OpenWRT being good and useful I ought
to try an alternative: Debian. I followed the steps in the pyneo.org
guide on the subject. The first attempt failed. After a reboot I could
see the boot manager printing the default text about loading the kernel
and then the screen turned black. "Oh well, kernel panic", I thought to
myself, and booted right back into usb boot for the second attempt.
The second attempt failed even harder. After rebooting (not sure if it
even classifies as a boot) the device the screen stayed monochrome
black. No backlight, as far as I can tell. I popped the back lid open,
removed the battery and sent it into usb boot. `watch lsusb`, nothing.
Tried again, and again, and again but the tiny box is still stuck in its
dark abyss.
Somehow, my attempt at installing Debian seems to have killed whatever
part handles the usb boot. I have no good guess of how this would be
possible, though. Is there any way for me to un-fuck-up my Nanonote? It
would really be saddening if the journey would end like this. Any help
regarding this is greatly appreciated.
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Niklas Femerstrand
<[email protected]>
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