<div>Problem solved! onward we go.</div><div>Jim politely reminded me to use the correct limey image on the D2700MUD Mobo. :)<br>(I was using he standard i686 image)<br><br>For the benefit of others that are using teh D2700MUD Mobo here is the link.</div>
<div><a href="http://stats.allstarlink.org/limeylinux/downloads/cfimg-D2700MUD.tar.gz" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://stats.allstarlink.org/limeylinux/downloads/cfimg-D2700MUD.tar.gz</a><br>
<br>Ok, I'm now booted and going through the first-time config.<br><br><br>Randy/W3RWN<br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Randy Neals <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:randy@neals.ca" target="_blank">randy@neals.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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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