2010-11-17, 22:19
I found out something very interested after I DD'd pins image to my appleTV HDD and expanded it to the full 40gb.
I was having all kinds of stability issues using xbmc beta 4 and latest crystalHD drivers. Everything worked great on the thumb drive but after the HDD was imaged it was very unstable. Well it turns out the Swap partition was not enabled. So anybody that is putting the 4GB image on HDD and use parted to expand, make sure your Swap Partition is functioning. XBMC seems to run out of memory quickly with crystalHD and ubuntu will kill it because of having no more ram. I verified this by checking my syslog after XBMC for no reason just killed its self and restarted with no issues showing up in xbmc logs. Just thought I would through this out there for anybody having issues running expanded image on internel HDD. After I enabled Swap/rebooted all my stability issues have appeared to go away.
I was having all kinds of stability issues using xbmc beta 4 and latest crystalHD drivers. Everything worked great on the thumb drive but after the HDD was imaged it was very unstable. Well it turns out the Swap partition was not enabled. So anybody that is putting the 4GB image on HDD and use parted to expand, make sure your Swap Partition is functioning. XBMC seems to run out of memory quickly with crystalHD and ubuntu will kill it because of having no more ram. I verified this by checking my syslog after XBMC for no reason just killed its self and restarted with no issues showing up in xbmc logs. Just thought I would through this out there for anybody having issues running expanded image on internel HDD. After I enabled Swap/rebooted all my stability issues have appeared to go away.