(ARCHIVED) Ubuntu Xenial Image (BSP Kernel)

[faddah]

i followed the instructions for this ubuntu install to the Micro SD card for the Pine A64+ board at your web site here, and it seemed to work. however, when i booted, it went through the usual linux start-up trace and i thought i would boot to the desktop, except then i got two linux stack trace errors and it stoped around line 44. any help here on make this work correctly, please? any help would be apprecia

This is minimal image pre-configured with Ethernet. Ubuntu waits 5 minutes for DHCP on boot.

thank you for replying on this, @longsleep. and i'll try letting it just run. i did have an live ethernet cable connected to the A64+ board at start-up.

however, there were two major stack trace errors that came up on the screen just before it stopped and kept sitting there. i will let it run through for 5 - 10 minutes, but it really seems frozen on that last stack trace line #44.

also, does it take 5 minutes to boot every time while waiting for DHCP, or just the first time?

thank you again for this image, the instructions, and the help.

best,

—  faddah
     portland, oregon, u.s.a.

hi @longsleep, @janjwerner & @Luke,

ok, per your instructions, i rebooted, made extra sure ethernet was attached and working, and... it works! yay! thank you for the help.

a couple more things.

i ran your script, @longsleep, from your platform scripts, to re-size the rootfs and get usage of the entire 64GB micro sd card i have, and that worked fine.

@Luke, i installed ubuntu mate from the install script that comes, and it seems to have installed fine (mostly — see further notes below). here's a pic ??




so i've gotten to the boot/log-in screen and sometimes past that to start updating and loading the software & libs i want to work with on it.

however, some things —

• this started occasionally, but now is a big problem with the board — i use it, log-in, get to the desktop, beging working with windows and moving things around and clicking when suddenly, the screen just goes blank. like completely blank, usually with some strange color tinge to it — dark green, similar to the Mate desktop, sometimes flat slate grey, sometimes grayish white. when this happens, it becomes frozen. i can't ctrl-alt-F1 to a command line prompt, there is no mouse cursor, nothing responds to the keyboard, nada, nil, nights, null - the empty set, zilch, big goose egg. the only choice is to unplug the power and re-plug it back in to restart. now, this is happening right after i successfully log-in so i never get to a desktop and can get any work done on it, everytime (a different blank screen color locking me out, each time! dark green! flat white grey!). this has also happened while trying to load software like node.js to the system. i have unplugged the Pine64 A64+ and am letting it sit and cool for a while in the hopes that will solve the immediate blank-screen-lock-out after log-in each time, but it will still be an on-going problem. any ideas on rectifying this? is it a driver thing? how do i fix this?
  
• the log-in screen does a weird thing — it asks me for my password, i put it in, it goes away as if i'm logging in, and... it comes back in. so far, i've had to log-in twice to get into the desktop every time. any way to fix this?
  
• @longsleep or anyone who knows — to flash and copy the Micro SD cards on my Mac OS X iMac, you use the 'dd' command at the terminal. is there anything else, some other utility app for Mac OS X or general *Nix that can be used on Mac OS X that is faster? thus far, it takes a little over an hour each time to flash a 64GB MicroSD that is Class-10 & UHS-3, fastest on the market. it seems to me it should just not take that long. any suggestions would be appreciated.
  

that's it — any help with the last points above would be appreciated.

best,

—  faddah
     portland, oregon, u.s.a.