[MinnowBoard] Max uefi ver 0.71 and CentOS 7

[Darren Hart]

Hi Luism,

On 2/5/15, 11:19 AM, "L.M." <luism at ieee.org> wrote:

>I received the Max Dual core in September and hadn¹t have the
>opportunity to work on it until now (Health issues). I don't want to
>brick the board, so I left the uefi update until I finish my experiments.
>
>Plugged a SanDisk 256GB SSD to the USB3 port and installed CentOS 7 on
>it. (Need to get a connector for J2 to be able to use the SSD with the
>SATA port as I understand the SSD only requires 5 Volts). After much
>toiling, I have been able to get it working with the MATE Desktop
>environment (http://jensd.be/?p=125). Got Oracle's Java 8 also working.
>
>I would like to understand a bit more the file system of the
>installation. Right now, the system tells me that the only device is a
>USB stick if I plug one in, but the SSD is treated a part of the
>computer system.

Always helpful to provide output as it avoids confusion from
interpretation. What is the output of:

$ mount

It sounds like you connected an SSD to a USB enclosure and are using it
via USB mass storage.

>
>I did not partition the SSD during installation, but now I find the disk
>split 200GB/50GB with the big chunk used for the only user I have

This sounds like either:

1) You chose an automatic installation which partitioned it for you or the
SSD may have come pre-partitioned.


> 
>implemented and the rest for root. Can anyone point to me where in the
> 
>documentation I can learn more about this? Also, the SSD does not show
>under devices. The only device I see right now is a USB stick I have
>plugged in the USB port.
>
>I'm not a big expert on OSs nor Computer Architecture, but enough to be
>dangerous sometimes. I'm trying to understand this behaviour and as I
>said, if someone knows where to read about this, and learn more about
>the interaction of the Max architecture with the Linux OS.

The questions you're asking are not Minnow specific and you may find a
better response from the CentOS community support.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center