1st May, 2014, 02:29 AM
Can someone with a 256MB RPi confirm the following.
ssh xbian-config clone to file.
I attempted (Twice) to clone a 2G card to a 8G NTFS USB stick. It reached 99% both times and then hung. dmesg showed a kernel panic (Forgot to save it!). poweroff didn't work after that - just hung on shutting down.
I then tried the same procedure using the same SD card and NTFS USB stick but in a 512MB RPi and it worked as expected.
Also in the 256MB RPi the ssh xbian-config backup to home never completed just blue screen with "Backing up file zzzzz". Left for two hours and nothing had changed. System seemed to have hung (or V high CPU) as unable to ssh in with another shell.
Everything works as expected with a 512Mb RPi
So it seems to be related to the 256MB model only.
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Solved: Looks like it is related to the size of the SD card 2G. Moving to a 4G SD card solved both problems.
ssh xbian-config clone to file.
I attempted (Twice) to clone a 2G card to a 8G NTFS USB stick. It reached 99% both times and then hung. dmesg showed a kernel panic (Forgot to save it!). poweroff didn't work after that - just hung on shutting down.
I then tried the same procedure using the same SD card and NTFS USB stick but in a 512MB RPi and it worked as expected.
Also in the 256MB RPi the ssh xbian-config backup to home never completed just blue screen with "Backing up file zzzzz". Left for two hours and nothing had changed. System seemed to have hung (or V high CPU) as unable to ssh in with another shell.
Everything works as expected with a 512Mb RPi
So it seems to be related to the 256MB model only.
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Solved: Looks like it is related to the size of the SD card 2G. Moving to a 4G SD card solved both problems.