System not turning on, do the following:
1. Remove the CMOS battery and wait 10 minutes
2. Re-install the (original) battery the system shipped with
3. Turn the system on
4. Go into the BIOS and under advanced > power > secondary power change the option for 'after power failure' to 'last state'.
Step by step directions to installing CentOS 7 /w GNOME using a USB flash drive
(pretty standard stuff here and should be applicable to any system you want to install centos 7 on)
Downloaded CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-DVD.iso:
http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/centos/7.0.1406/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7.0-1406-x8...
From a terminal run:
cd Downloads/CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-DVD
sudo dd if=CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-DVD.iso of=/dev/sdX (replace X with that of your flash drive)
sync
Remove the flash drive and insert into the Pocket Wee system
1. Turn the system on and press F10 to get to the boot menu
2. Select to boot from the USB flash drive (in non-UEFI mode, but UEFI mode might work too provided centos 7 supports it, probably does)
3. Make sure to allow the image to be tested before installation (otherwise you may encounter problems if the image is corrupt)
4. Select English and English at first screen (or whichever language you would like to use)
5. From device selection make sure to select the msata SSD drive (and not your USB flash drive)
6. If no free space for automatic partitioning click 'reclaim space' button
7. Delete all partitions (WARNING: all your data will be lost!)
8. Click software installation (very important)
9. Select 'GNOME Desktop'
10. Click done
11. Click 'Begin Installation'
12. Click 'Root Password'
13. Enter a password of your choosing and click done
14. Click 'User Creation'
15. Enter a Full Name and User Name
16. Check 'Make this user administrator'
17. Enter a password twice of your choosing
18. Click done
19. Reboot when installation finished
20. Remove the flash drive before the splash screen appears
21. Click 'License Information' after reboot
22. Check 'I accept license agreement' box
23. Click done
24. Click 'Finish Configuration'
25. Click forward
26. Click 'User Name'
27. Enter password
28. Click next
29 Click next
30 Select the wifi accept point that you would like to connect to
31. Enter the password for the access point (if prompted)
32. Click connect
33. Click next
34. Click next
35. Click 'Start using CentOS Linux'
Your installation and configuration is now complete. The ethernet, audio, wifi, and USB ports have been tested with CentOS 7 and confirmed working.
December of 216 BIOS Update
Warning: Failure to follow these steps exactly could lead to permanent damage. Do not follow these directions unless you understand the risks, understand the steps, and can properly flash the system as shown below.
Flashing instructions:
1. Download BIOS update: https://downloadmirror.intel.com/26503/eng/WY0044.bio
2. Open a terminal and cd to the directory containing the download
For example if you saved it to your Downloads folder type: cd Downloads
3. Copy the WY0044.bio image to a flash drive
4. Turn off your Pocket Wee (make sure it is completely off and not just in suspend, etc)
5. Turn your Pocket Wee back on and hit the F7 key repeatedly until the BIOS flashing utility appears
6. Select your flash drive where the WY0044.bio image was saved and select it
7. When the system reboots press 2 to allow the flashing to proceed, DO NOT TURN THE SYSTEM OFF until the system has finished and rebooted on its own
August 2014 BIOS Update: (OLD DO NOT USE)
If you have experienced issues with the unit restarting after shutting down rather than shutting down as it should this BIOS update fixes the issue.
Warning: Failure to follow these steps exactly could lead to permanent damage. Do not follow these directions unless you understand the risks, understand the steps, and can properly flash the system as shown below.
Flashing instructions:
2. Open a terminal and cd to the directory containing the download
For example if you saved it to your Downloads folder type: cd Downloads
3. Now run the following command:
sha512sum POCKET_WEE_BIOS_UPDATE_WY0027.bio
4. Confirm the output of the command from step 3 is (if it does not match your download is corrupt, DO NOT FLASH, you will damage the machine):
6d83d18d178b5d6fc9c9623c71bc7d023575f008da78d363af24c172f3f1a006b14b908a9c3274c8b8f822bd58745d46442a78fcb2e5f3ab9baa387323931726 POCKET_WEE_BIOS_UPDATE_WY0027.bio
5. Copy the POCKET_WEE_BIOS_UPDATE_WY0027.bio image to a flash drive
6. Turn off your Pocket Wee (make sure it is completely off and not just in suspend, etc)
7. Turn your Pocket Wee back on and hit the F7 key repeatedly until the BIOS flashing utility appears
8. Select your flash drive where the POCKET_WEE_BIOS_UPDATE_WY0027.bio image was saved and select it
9. When the system reboots press 2 to allow the flashing to proceed, DO NOT TURN THE SYSTEM OFF until the system has finished and rebooted on its own