Sunday, March 25, 2007

inch by inch with the weary load

Well, getting Linux onto the EFIKA has been an adventure, and I'm not even there yet.
The EFIKA's firmware does not love certain USB keyboards. In particular, it has no love for mine. You can tell, because powering it up gives a bPlan logo, and nothing further. Resetting it gets you to the OF prompt, but pressing any of the modifier keys locks it up completely. This makes it impossible to type ':' ... I borrowed a different keyboard from work - and it worked just fine!

It is now happily loading the kernel using tftp, but I do not see console output. Null modem time, methinks...

Onwards!

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