Hi folks,<div><br></div><div>I received my parts this week and started building a node.<br>The parts I've acquired:<br>Intel D2700MUD Motherboard: <a href="http://www.intel.com/cd/products/services/emea/eng/motherboards/desktop/D2700MUD/overview/487677.htm">http://www.intel.com/cd/products/services/emea/eng/motherboards/desktop/D2700MUD/overview/487677.htm</a><br>
ARK CS-Ci02 mini-itx case: <a href="http://www.arktechinc.net/server-case/cs-ci02.html">http://www.arktechinc.net/server-case/cs-ci02.html</a><br>Crucial 2GB SODIMM DDR3PC3 memory<br><div><br>The D2700 Motherboard has an embedded USB storage header on the motherboard.</div>
<div>Rather than using a compact flash drive, I acquired some SanDisk 512MB Embedded USB Flash storage devices. (Found on eBay)</div><div>Here's some documentation on that <a href="http://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/M-Systems%20Inc%20PDFs/uSSD_5000_Manual_03.pdf">http://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/M-Systems%20Inc%20PDFs/uSSD_5000_Manual_03.pdf</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I downloaded the Limey Linux image, and used Physdiskwrite on my windows pc to write the image to the USB Flash drive.</div><div>Inserted the USB flash drive on the header, and gave it a rip.<br><br>You'll find pictures of the case, mobo and flash drive here.<br>
<a href="http://www.neals.ca/w3rwn">http://www.neals.ca/w3rwn</a><br><br>Ok, so it boots... loads kernel, makes a ram disk, and runs through a long list of boot up things.<br>It mounts the root filesystem then seems to die.<br>
<br></div><div>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 1:0</div><div>Freeing unused kernel memory: 292k freed</div><div>EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck reccomended</div><div><br>There is no command prompt, so not sure what I should be doing next? Doh!<br>
<br>I'm going to try a different boot image for linux, and check out the hardware independently.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Randy</div><div>W3RWN (ex KI6TWT)<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>
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