New Group for Inovato Quadra Ham Radio users
Hi all,
I thought it would be beneficial to have a groups.io for Inovato Quadra
owners using them for ham radio, so I created this group:
/g/Inovato-Quadra-4-HamRadio
Please
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Dave Slotter, W3DJS
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Re: boot issue
You are in the grub shell.? So, you will need to use the grub commands to boot.? It should come with a list of selectable kernels to boot.? If not, something is screwed up with the boot
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Jeff Steinkamp
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Re: boot issue
Hello Gary,
I am so glad I could be of assistance. Happy that you are now able to use HAM PC.
73,
Herbert
K7HAD
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 2:00 PM
To:
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Herbert A. Davis
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#260
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Re: boot issue
Herb,
I originally used rufus to burn the image to the USB drive as directed in the HOW_TO_BURN_IMAGE.TXT file at sourceforge. It took only a few minutes to complete so perhaps it did not correctly
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Gary
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Re: boot issue
Hi Gary,
Just finished. I downloaded a fresh version from Sourceforge . Took me about 2 minutes to download the following file:
Notice that this is my second time downloading the
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Herbert A. Davis
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#258
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Re: boot issue
Here's the hash (checksum) for the download. See if you can match this from
what you
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Dave Slotter, W3DJS
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Re: boot issue
Hi Gary,
That last bit of information helped. Here is what I was able to find as I googled the error. Bad magic number means that when U-Boot tried to boot the UImage kernel image it found
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Herbert A. Davis
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Re: boot issue
I think the boot prompt will come up if you're holding down Shift. But, a
corrupted download image will also cause this.
wrote:
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Dave Slotter, W3DJS
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Re: boot issue
I am using the hampc image 3.0.1b1 from the sourceforge repository. Pressing tab at the grub prompt lists all the possible commands and startx was not one of them. I tried to use the linuxefi command
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Gary
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Re: boot issue
Thanks for the reply. It appears that the issue resides in GRUB (Grand Unified Bootloader) which is a tool for booting and loading the operating system. Is it possible that the image that your using
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Herbert A. Davis
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Re: boot issue
grub> startx
error: can¡¯t find command ¡®startx¡¯.
grub>
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Gary
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Re: boot issue
What happens if you type startx at the prompt and press enter?
73,
Herbert
K7HAD
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 9:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HamPC] boot issue
I have one of
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Herbert A. Davis
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boot issue
I have one of those Evolve III laptops and whether I boot to the usb drive efi or ubuntu partition, I get the grub command line and I don't know what to do with that.
Gary
W9TD
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Gary
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Re: Help install HanPC on Ubuntu otally a newbie
Hi "J",
You need to use Balena Etcher to flash the image. You can flash it to a USB
flash drive or if you want it can replace / overwrite Ubuntu on your
internal drive.
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Dave Slotter, W3DJS
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Help install HanPC on Ubuntu otally a newbie
Hello, "J"? here.? Total Newbie to both Linux and HamPC.?? I have the Ubuntu desktop 22.04 installed and am just learning to navigate Linux.? The HamPC is downloaded into the computer and I
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"J", VY1JA <vy1ja@...>
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Re: Legacy FW Support for HamPC 3.0
Dave,
Thanks for the reply and thank you for the all the work that it takes to build this OS package.
Looking at my 13 year old laptop file structure with just Xubuntu 22.04 installed, I see
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ROBERT NORRIS AK5U <rpnorris1@...>
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#247
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Re: Legacy FW Support for HamPC 3.0
Hi Bob,
You have an excellent point. It is on my radar to produce a legacy boot for HamPC.
I wish I could give you an exact timetable. But I am working on it. If there are other Linux developers on
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Dave Slotter, W3DJS
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Legacy FW Support for HamPC 3.0
The fact that newer systems support efi in the BIOS doesn't make a difference to us that use Linux as a way to rejuvenate older PCs and laptops. So, does or has someone provided steps (easy ones I
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ROBERT NORRIS AK5U <rpnorris1@...>
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Re: Unlocking HamPC
Let me know what happens! And thanks for the nomination!
73,
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Dave Slotter, W3DJS
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Re: Unlocking HamPC
Hi again, Dave!!
First, I¡¯ve included your nomination for Ham of the Year as have many others I¡¯m sure.
Rita and I are members of Thousand Trails, which costs us about $550.00 per year plus the
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Ernie Rader <ernie@...>
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