Bionic Puppy 8.0 x64: kernel does not allow reboot on T100TA
Posted: Wed 22 Jan 2020, 17:59
I have been trying to get Bionic Puppy 8.0 x64 installed to the internal eMMC of an Asus T100TA with little success: the kernel or ramdisk fails to load correctly and it bombs out to a kernel shell (I think) - see http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=117895 for further details.
To make matters worse, when this happens the T100TA freezes when you try to reboot it either by issuing the command "reboot" or pressing the power button, forcing the user to power-cycle the tablet. Fortunately the "poweroff" command does work otherwise you have to press and hold the power button for 10+ seconds (=very tedious).
I think this might also be the case if you boot to a Live CD from USB, but I'm not 100% on that as I generally choose to shutdown rather than reboot in such situations.
To make matters worse, when this happens the T100TA freezes when you try to reboot it either by issuing the command "reboot" or pressing the power button, forcing the user to power-cycle the tablet. Fortunately the "poweroff" command does work otherwise you have to press and hold the power button for 10+ seconds (=very tedious).
I think this might also be the case if you boot to a Live CD from USB, but I'm not 100% on that as I generally choose to shutdown rather than reboot in such situations.