I'm currently trying to get debian installed on this litty fellow. The network chip is only supported bei 2.6.28+ kernels, so I can't use any of the standard debian/fai kernels. I've tried the current kernel from the debian kernel development repository in the the trunk, but this only results in a load of stacktraces and finally a kernel panic. I have no idea so far, what the cause of the kernel panic is. A quick try with the current ubuntu live-cd reveals, that it should be working somehow. The stacktrace however keeps filling the log files at a very fast pace. Within 5 minutes the ubuntu live-system dies because the ramdisk is filled up by /var/log/messages with entries like this one:

Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176041] ------------[ cut here ]------------
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176043] WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.27/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c:286 hpet_legacy_
next_event+0x5e/0x60()
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176044] Modules linked in: ipv6 i915 drm af_packet binfmt_misc bridge stp bnep rfcomm
sco l2cap bluetooth ppdev lp acpi_cpufreq cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_stats cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_ondemand freq_table cpuf
req_conservative wmi video output sbs sbshc pci_slot ac iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables parport_pc parport container psmou
se serio_raw snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi
_event snd_seq evdev button snd_timer pcspkr snd_seq_device intel_agp snd agpgart soundcore snd_page_alloc shpchp pci_hotplu
g battery squashfs loop aufs exportfs nls_cp437 isofs ext3 jbd mbcache sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif sg pata_acpi ahci ata_
generic ehci_hcd libata uhci_hcd scsi_mod usbcore dock e1000e thermal processor fan fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor f
use
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176085] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.27-7-generic #1
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176086] [] ? printk+0x1d/0x1f
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176089] [] warn_on_slowpath+0x59/0x90
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176091] [] ? load_balance_fair+0x114/0x170
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176094] [] ? load_balance_start_fair+0x0/0x50
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176097] [] ? load_balance_next_fair+0x0/0x50
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176099] [] ? hrtimer_get_next_event+0x10b/0x130
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176102] [] ? read_hpet+0x8/0x20
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176104] [] ? getnstimeofday+0x4b/0x100
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176107] [] ? read_hpet+0x8/0x20
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176109] [] ? getnstimeofday+0x4b/0x100
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176111] [] hpet_legacy_next_event+0x5e/0x60
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176113] [] clockevents_program_event+0x9f/0x150
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176116] [] tick_dev_program_event+0x3b/0xc0
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176118] [] tick_broadcast_oneshot_control+0x115/0x120
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176120] [] tick_notify+0xdf/0x1c0
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176122] [] notifier_call_chain+0x35/0x70
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176124] [] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x1f/0x30
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176126] [] clockevents_notify+0x26/0x80
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176129] [] acpi_state_timer_broadcast+0x36/0x39 [processor]
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176133] [] acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x140/0x2b7 [processor]
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176137] [] cpuidle_idle_call+0x7b/0xd0
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176139] [] cpu_idle+0x7d/0x140
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176141] [] rest_init+0x53/0x60
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176143] =======================
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.176144] ---[ end trace c26fc36af47c6ee9 ]---
Nov 18 11:34:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 216.180023] ------------[ cut here ]------------


Since that fills up the space avaibable, my guess would be, that those messages fill up the initial ram disk of the netboot environment via FAI and thereby kills it before beeing able to mount the real root.

I'm currently trying to get debian installed on this litty fellow. The network chip is only supported bei 2.6.28+ kernels, so I can't use any of the standard debian/fai kernels....