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I finally got Moblin to boot from an SD card, Sandisk Ultra II 8GB SD /USB card on my EEE 1000:
This assumes some familiarity with Linux, basic editors like vi, that you know how to boot from the device menu, and you have a working Live Moblin USB flash drive. These instructions are specifically for booting from drives other than sda or sdb.
1: Boot Live Moblin and select Boot and Install, this should be device /dev/sdc
2: Set the installer to format and install to sdd and set the boot loader to use sdd, DO NOT install to sda or sdb unless you want to wipe your current OS
3: Let the install finish and reboot to the Live Moblin
4: Open the Applications / Accessories / Terminal
5: Switch to super user, su -, enter the root password, moblin for the live Moblin boot
6: cd to /media/disk/grub
7: Edit the menu.lst file
8: Change the /dev/sdd2 to /dev/sdc2
9: Add rootdelay=9 to the end of the kernel entry
10: cd to /media/netbook-ux-bet-i/etc
11: Edit fstab and change the sdd# devices to sdc#
12: cd to /media/netbook-ux-bet-i/etc/rc.d
13: Edit rc.sysinit
14: Add sleep 2 just before the first fsck, on my system this was directly after the hostname ${HOSTNAME} line
15: Reboot, remove the usb drive before the BIOS prompt appears and boot from the Single Flash Card Reader
16: Moblin should boot from the SD card.
17: Enjoy
I hope this helps you to get over the humps of installing to a Flash device. Note: this is not well supported by Moblin.
Thanks to Vivian Zhang on the Moblin mail list for pointing me in the right direction.
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with the last image all the tricks you posted were defaults... but anyways at boot i have only black screen ):
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edit your menu.lst and remove the "quiet" from the kernel line, then reboot. hopefully you'll be able to see where it is hanging. Are you just getting a black screen or are you hanging with a PANIC?
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on my 1000he the internal media slot, which is where I boot from, is sdb. The usb is sdc.
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Moblin on SD Card
Procedure originally posted by mhfrey, 5/29/09. This just updates it
to use moblin-netbook-beta-refresh-20090607-001.img. It was developed
on an Eee PC 1000 40G. The card used was a Transcend SDHC 16GB. The
USB Flash Drive was a Verbatim Store 'n' Go 8GB. The Eee normally boots
openSuSE 11.1.
Introduction
This assumes some familiarity with Linux, basic editors like vi, that
you know how to boot from the device menu, and you have a working Live
Moblin USB flash drive. These instructions are specifically for booting
from drives other than sda or sdb.
BIOS Settings
1: With the Eee powered down, insert the Live Moblin USB flash drive
and the SD card.
2: Power on and tap F2 to enter Setup.
3: Go to the Boot menus.
4: Under 'Hard Disk Drives', set the Live Moblin USB flash drive to be
the '1st Drive'. Mine appeared as [USB:Verbatim Store].
5: Under 'Hard Disk Drives', set the SD card to be the '4th Drive'. Mine
appeared as [USB:Single Flash R].
Note: HDD:SM-ASUS-PHISON is /dev/sda (small 8GB SSD).
Note: HDD:SS-ASUS-PHISON is /dev/sdb (large 32GB SSD).
6: Under 'Boot Device Priority', set the Live Moblin USB flash drive to
be the '1st Boot Device'.
7: Save and Exit Setup.
Moblin Installation
1: Boot Live Moblin and select Boot and Install, this should be device
/dev/sdc
2: Set the installer to format and install to sdd. DO NOT install to
sda or sdb unless you want to wipe your current OS.
3: Set the boot loader to use sdd.
3: Let the install finish and reboot to the Live Moblin.
4: Open the Applications / Accessories / Terminal.
Note: <Ctrl+Alt+F1> will open a Linux console that you can use
instead of the Terminal app. <Ctrl+Alt+F2> will bring you back to
the graphical desktop.
5: Switch to super user, su -, enter the root password, moblin for the
live Moblin boot. (Login as root if using Linux console,.)
6: cd to /media/netbook-beta-r-i/boot/grub
7: Edit the menu.lst file.
Moblin Installation
1: Boot Live Moblin and select Boot and Install, this should be device
/dev/sdc
2: Set the installer to format and install to sdd. DO NOT install to
sda or sdb unless you want to wipe your current OS.
3: Set the boot loader to use sdd.
3: Let the install finish and reboot to the Live Moblin.
4: Open the Applications / Accessories / Terminal.
Note: <Ctrl+Alt+F1> will open a Linux console that you can use
instead of the Terminal app. <Ctrl+Alt+F2> will bring you back to
the graphical desktop.
5: Switch to super user, su -, enter the root password, moblin for the
live Moblin boot. (Login as root if using Linux console,.)
6: cd to /media/netbook-beta-r-i/boot/grub
7: Edit the menu.lst file.
Note: menu.lst is linked to grub.conf.
8: Change the /dev/sdd1 to /dev/sdc1.
9: Add rootdelay=9 to the end of the kernel entry
10: cd to /media/netbook-beta-r-i/etc
11: Edit fstab and change the sdd# devices to sdc#
12: cd to /media/netbook-beta-r-i/etc/rc.d
13: Edit rc.sysinit
14: Add sleep 2 just before the first fsck, on my system this was on
Line 115, just after 'STRING=$"Checking filesystems"'.
Note: Don't know the reason for the sleep. It may not be needed.
15: Shutdown, remove the usb drive.
16: Power on and tap F2 to enter Setup.
17: Check 'Boot Device Priority' and make sure it is set to boot from
the Single Flash Card Reader.
18: Exit Setup.
19: Moblin should boot from the SD card.
Many thanks to mlfrey for his post. Without it, I would still be
looking/trying.
dturley
Additional Information
1: When done, the root password will be the same the user you created
during the install.
2: I setup a networked HP 4050 LaserJet printer with no problems, easy.
3: I tried to setup a networked HP PSC2510 but Moblin could not fine
the hpijs driver to install.
4: Moblin found the printers even though they were on a local lan.
5: The Eee used wifi with WEP to connect to the local lan, no problems.
Duel Booting
I did not get the openSuSE grub on /dev/sda1 to boot Moblin on the
SD drive. I did get Moblin on /dev/sdc1 (the SD drive) to duel boot
openSuSE. Here are my BIOS setting and Moblin's /boot/grub/menu.lst.
BIOS
Boot
Boot Settings
Hard Disk Drives
1st Drive [USB:Single Flash R]
2nd Drive [HDD:SM-ASUS-PHISON]
3rd Drive [HDD:SS-ASUS-PHISON]
Boot Device Priority
1st Boot Device [USB:Single Flash R]
2nd Boot Device [Removable Dev.]
3rd Boot Device [ATAPI CD-ROM]
Menu.lst
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# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sdc1
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sdc
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
# hiddenmenu
# silent
title Moblin (2.6.29.4-6.1.moblin2-netbook)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-6.1.moblin2-netbook ro root=/dev/sdc1 quiet vga=current rootdelay=9
title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.21-0.1
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.21-0.1-pae root=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts vga=0x314 rootdelay=9
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.21-0.1-pae
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I'll give this a try when I get my Patriot class 6 8gb SDHC in.
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is moblin really that hard to install? I've followed the instruction from this site, http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-moblin … m-windows/ , and had everything working out of box for me on my 900A. there are a number of minor bugs and missing features but I'm liking moblin quite a bit! 
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I have been impressed and smitten by Moblin2, and so installed it on my Little Disk.
It was not that easy, but following post-install tweaking tips found here and there ( http://azanutta.wordpress.com/2009/05/2 … epc-1000h/ http://forum.eeepc.it/viewtopic.php?id=7815&p=1 , plus on eeeuser's forum) , I've finally managed to have it boot properly and then triple boot with Mandriva and NyTyX.
Some people say that it's a distro for non-tweakers, but in fact it's Fedora under the bonnet, and so you've got all the power and potential of Fedora.
PackageKit install/remove packages application is really fast and there are enough Gnome applications in the repositories for a Gnome lover like me. Plus a few Xfce ones.
So far I've added Firefox 3.5, Abiword, Gnumeric, Totem, Rhythmbox, Gstreamer codecs (ugly and all). Anjal, the lite version of Evolution webmail, was already there, and Pidgin, Transmission are in the repos.
Got rid of that Chrome browser, and added Opera 10 directly from Opera download page (chose fedora11 package, let the package being opened by the software installer, and bang it's installed), and this Opera 10 is truly the most exquisitely looking Opera I've ever installed, with smooth rendered fonts, a real pleasure.
As I work mainly with the keyboard, it takes a moment to get use to the fact that when web browsing you can't use usual keyboard's shortcuts to navigate to previous or next page (Alt+<- or -> doesn't work). And also, you can't change desktop with Ctrl+Alt+<- or ->, you have to use the 'modes' tab.
What is truly a plus is the network management; those who have a 1000H or a 901 with that wretched rt2860 wireless driver know how painful it often is to get a working wireless connection on their eeepcs.
Here, you get into Carrick, the connection management panel, choose your wireless network, enter your key, and that's it, you're connected. No endless tweaking and fiddling into wpa_supplicant files or whatever other funny things you might have to do.
But still you've got the command-line to do whatever you want; tweaking the moblin-menus settings to get rid of some tabs in the menu, for example (no need for that IM and social tabs for me). So far, gedit is there, and exploring the depths of the distro will show you that it's no different from other LInux distro; lots of possible fiddling in prospect!
So, under an interface that may seem simplistic, it is Fedora and it rocks!
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