Comments on: CherryPal Troubleshooting

By: stephanie

stephanie — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:51:01 +0000

Andrew, have you fixed your problem? You could potentially go into the computer using the rescue system as described above and manually change the limeos password in the shadow file.

By: DeeCoz

DeeCoz — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:17:53 +0000

Stephanie, I am so impressed with your daring expertise! I have to wait for the user-friendly version. The people I considered the target market for CherryPal won’t be able to deal with this either. I’m sure they will come through with more coherent support soon, as they see what we are running into.
Danine

By: John

John — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:54:43 +0000

Andrew,

I’m grasping at straws here and most likely totally wrong, but I wonder if there’s some sort of networking issue going on, like the CherryPal server uses some sort of unusual protocol that is blocked by a firewall somewhere? Since CherryPal has WiFi, it might be worth bundling up the system and trying it from a nearby WiFi-equipped coffee-house.

John

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:34:06 +0000

Yeah, I have typed in limeos / limeos in all lowercase several times and it hasn’t worked from the very first boot. Unreal.

By: John

John — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:15:40 +0000

In other news, CherryPal’s “fearless leader” Max Seybold has posted a new item on his ‘blog http://maxseybold.blogspot.com/ entitled “CherryPals are shipping, and shipping, and shipping …” First post there since October 24th.

He mentions the mysterious Green Maraschino project. Does anyone here know any details about it?

By: stephanie

stephanie — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:56:18 +0000

Andrew, usernames and passwords in Linux are case-sensitive. So make sure you are typing in limeos and not Limeos or LIMEOS.

Keep us posted. Thanks!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:48:38 +0000

Andrew,

Did you succeed in logging on?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:20:42 +0000

From the very first boot of my cherrypal, the default limeos / limeos login credentials have been rejected. I have reset the system and reinstalled linux several times and gotten the same result. When I notified cherrypal support that the limeos / limeos credentials didn’t work, I got a reply saying “did you try userid: limeos / password: limeos ?” It’s like this company is actually shooting for worst company in history.

Anyway, you’re my only hope since Cherrypal support is atrocious. Thanks.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:41:20 +0000

John,

Agree with all. I see LimePC will be at CES in January. Maybe we’ll get some reviews from there.

Lime, unlike Cherrypal, is not ‘Cloud Computing’ which may be better for them not to have to maintain a server.

By: John

John — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:54:57 +0000

Chuck,

I don’t know anything other than what I’ve scanned from powerdeveloper.org. The LimePC.com web site has lots of pretty pictures, but not much in the way of useful information. All their products are described as “A new book including study,game,cartoon andsurf on the net…etc,all of the interesting things”.

It’ll be interesting to see if CherryPal and/or LimePC are actually able to make a go of it. I really like the Freescale 5121e “motherboard on a chip”… truly amazing performance and capabilities at low power — at least on paper. PowerPC is such a nice architecture. It would be so nice to see X86 supplanted by something vastly more efficient… with no fans!