[MinnowBoard] Ubuntu on Minnowboard (but very slow....)

[Mike Hogg]

No sign of my Minnowboard Max yet so I'm still working with the Minnowboard
v1. Had previously followed the instructions on elinux.org to create a
Debian install which work but are painful. 

 

Found a much easier way to get a Linux distribution installed to the
Minnowboard that I thought worth sharing. Today I successfully installed
Ubuntu and Lubuntu 14.04 on a sd-card and a SATA HDD respectively. Both seem
to work ok - Ethernet, keyboard, HDMI all working fine. Ubuntu runs very
slowly from my sd-card, Lubuntu on a regular HDD is tolerable.

 

Approach I took was to burn (using pendrivelinux) a regular 32bit i386
install ISO to a USB stick, and then copy over from the Angstrom card that
came with the board the EFI directory and the ID.txt and startup.nsh files.
Then edit EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg to reflect the grub command from the Ubuntu
install grub configuration.

 

Boot the minnowboard from the USB stick with an sd-card or hdd in place,
follow the regular install sequence (which is pretty slow) and it installs
just fine. Surprised there is no instructions on how to do this already, I'm
happy to write these up on elinux unless they've been omitted for a reason.

 

Ubuntu running from an sd-card is painfully slow to the point of not being
usable. If anyone has some tips to speed it up that would be much
appreciated, though I suspect its just too lardy for the Atom.

 

Mike.

 

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