I have Debian Jessie installed on gk802 Android stick running Freescale i.MX6 quad core CPU. Often I faced issues with kernel panic when allocating pages, which leaves stick unusable.
To mitigate this issue add following to your /etc/sysctl.conf Continue reading “How to prevent kernel panic when allocating page on android sticks running linux”
For some time now I am using my gk802 device as headless server running Debian Jessie. Finally I have decided to remove all GUI related packages from the system.
After searching the net I found out that this can be accomplished with: Continue reading “How to remove all GUI related packages in Debian”
I had an issue with my root partition and I could not force fsck to be executed with creating /forcefsck.
Here is my /uEnv.txt that handles mounting of /dev/root:
bootargs_video=gpumem=64M video=mxcfb0:dev=hdmi,1280x720M@60,if=RGB24 fbmem=10M linux=boot/dongle.img devicetree=boot/dongle.dtb options=console=ttymxc3,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 ro rootwait
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