i-RAM suppose to have 10+ hours battery power. However only an hour of power outrage, all my data in the half year old i-RAM GONE. Nothing important, it was just test Ubuntu. But I'm getting little bit worry to save any files on i-RAM from now on.
Tried development release of Ubuntu 7.04 alpha 3 on the Gigabyte i-RAM. The livecd detected i-RAM and installed Ubuntu without any problem. But during the booting system, I noticed the udev errors. I didn't even try to find out which one was causing it. I knew there still were i-RAM bugs on the latest Linux kernel. After the software updates and system reboot, I noticed more udev errors and system hanged/crashed after I tried to login to the account. I don't know whether GNOME was causing it or the i-RAM.
Made system and MBR backuped. So I'm planning to try as many Linux distributions I can this weekend.
I've been waiting for any Linux distribution with the Linux kernel 2.6.18 after I've noticed the patch for Gigabyte i-RAM. Fedora Core 6 finally ships with the Linux kernel 2.6.18 but I wasn't able to detect the i-RAM during installation. And I was getting DVD reading error on FC6 LiveCD. I've burn check the hash and burn it twice with data confirmation option on but still had no luck. Thought my DVD burner finally gone bad. But all the diagnostic indicated otherwise.
Today I'm trying OpenSUSE. It detected i-RAM during installation. I was able to make partitions. But that's where problems began. It gave me error during boot installation. Tried Lilo even installing on floppy. It gave me same error message and automatically finished the installation.
Went to rescue mode. And tried to make boot floppy disk:
mount /dev/sdd2 /mntBut when I boot it from flooppy, it gave me error message on hard drive. I'm too tired to try again. I'm just goint to blame i-RAM for now and waiting for i-RAM version 2 this year.
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
chroot /mnt
dd if=/boot/grub/stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
dd if=/boot/grub/stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
grub-install --recheck /dev/fd0
