WM8750 - ApricotR4 Mega Mirror

[Royal Panda]

Here is the MEGA mirror for Apricot R4 download : https://mega.co.nz/#F!wlByxJhZ!TH7vAmNp4Qdq3xkXYoknGA

[pahowells]

Thanks for the link to R4. Installed it to an SD card and it boots fine but will not allow me to login. Is the username and password still "root" or has it changed for this distribution? If it has not changed, does nayone have any suggestions as to what the login problem could be?

Also, I put the USB image on a USB flash drive using win32diskimager but it does not boot on the 8750 hardware. Is there anything I need to do to get the hardware to boot from the usb port?

Thanks

[Royal Panda]

In order to log, try :

Login : apc
Password : apc

then use su or sudo

For usb media to boot, yes you have a manipulation to do. And I don't have the How-To available. If someone have a copy of it...

Panda

[pahowells]

Thanks for the info. I did try apc as both username and password but it also does not work :-(

I cannot think what the problem might be.

[Royal Panda]

Hmmm did you try login : root password : apc
?

[pahowells]

Yep I did. Tried all the different combinations. Nothing worked. Flashed R3 image again and it works. I will try to download the R4 image again to see if that solves this problem.

Thanks

[Royal Panda]

Which R4 are you using ?

[pahowells]

I tried the ApricotR4-LXDE-2G-SDCARD.img. Downloaded the image again but get the same problem of not being able to log in. I will download and try one of the other images tomorrow morning to see if they give the same results.

[Royal Panda]

try with password : Pa$$w0rd for root

[pahowells]

Well I tried your suggestion of password and various combinations of it and it still does not accept it? I downloaded the xfce image and it does the same - I cannot log in using the normal usernames and passwords. I am beginning to think the board I have is jinxed :-)

I installed the R3 image from http://www.raspbian.org/ApricotImages and it works fine - very strange indeed.

I wonder if VIA have produced 2 different hardware versions of this board?

[Royal Panda]

I don't think so. that would be my fault in any way.

I released those Image, and I would have do a mistake.

The thing is that the thread where I released those image, with the login were in the APC forum.
But there is a trick that you can try : erase the hashed-password in /etc/shadow, that should let you login without password :

from :

root:$1$8NFmV6tr$rT.INHxDBWn1VvU5gjGzi/:12209:0:99999:7:-1:-1:1074970543

to :
root::12209:0:99999:7:-1:-1:1074970543

[pahowells]

Thanks, that trick worked. I can now log in:-)

Try to play with the new OS.

[zjellor]

username: root, password: apricot

Op donderdag 6 juni 2013 14:19:19 UTC+2 schreef pahowells: