[Arm-dev] Observarions - Re: CentOS-userland 7 images : call for testers !

Thu Dec 17 15:34:40 UTC 2015
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

On 12/03/2015 12:12 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
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> Hi,
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> For people with RaspberryPI2/Cubietruck/Bananapi boards, we'd like you
> to test the following images :
> http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/isos/armhfp/
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It boots and works well enough for starters on both the Cubietruck and 
Cubieboard2.

It was a little bit of work to make a bootable mSD for the C2; I hope 
later releases will be better.

1)    Sata boot worked easily by only have the uboot on the mSD and the 
3 partitions on the HD.

2)    Auto-resize worked fine for a mSD image.  Minimally it should be a 
script to run, rather than cut-n-paste from a README
     a)    Auto-resize did not work for a 320Gb sata HD, so don't make 
the resize automative in firstboot!

3)    Serious need of a timesync process of some sort.  Having to 
manually set the system time after each boot is not good.

4)    Should adopt the Fedora-arm image install methodology to pick up 
more boards.

This is all the testing I will do at this point.  I await the packages 
repo so I can install stuff like httpd and bind.