Custom Mint-19.2 with Linuxcnc

Compatibility module or via a machine with a plain old BIOS for now. It has taken well over a thousand hours over the past 8 years to get RTAI to where it is now.

Check what the plan is with the Xenomai devs for EFI only booting with ipipe.

Cheers mate that's not a problem I'll just make a note of it with the RTAI images.

It is what it is so that's cool.

Links down as per heading
Will be back shortly
Opening Post explains why
Testing is in progress

Important Notice Please Read
This is the only current version at the moment, do not ask for access to previous releases.
Please do not share Google drive links directly, refer anyone to first page of the thread, links to current announcements will placed there.
The reason all previous ISOs were taken down is there was an issue with installation when a UEFI only system was booted. This did not affect "legacy\bios" system. The actual issue was efivars was not mounted and installation would fail at grub. It took a while to find an answer and as these are it was a simple fix.
Please read the respin.txt file, there is a shortcut that has instructions regarding some post installation things that are required to be performed by the user. These are only required for UEFI only systems, an example being the Asrock J4015B or Gemini Lake and later systems as Intel deems UEFI only boot for these systems.
Other images will be released shortly.

Welcome to a respin of Linux Mint 19.2 MATE
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• New 2nd April 2020 20:15
• Add efi=runtime to kernel cmd-line for UEFI
• When installed on UEFI only systems on first boot modify /etc/default/grub
• Change this line from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
• to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash efi=runtime"
• then run
  Code:

  sudo update-grub
• Do not do this if booting and installing on BIOS or legacy boot systems

Please use win32diskimager if using a windows machine to write image to disk.
In Linux dd is recommended.

Unlike other images I posted this has been created using a virgin install of Mint 19.2 on real hardware.
To apply updates to fresh install open a terminal and use the following, this should not upgrade the kernel.

Iso Image:
No longer being distributed

MD5Sum:
No longer being distributed

Many thanks to all who have downloaded, test, reported bugs and helped.

All issues and support should be directed to this thread.
forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...t-19-2-with-linuxcnc

I grabbed the last Xfce-RTAI iso before it was taken down. No real problems afaict -- Thank You ! It's running on an old Intel Atom Di510mo. May need to switch monitor as backplot look a bit stretched?
What's the shell script on the desktop do exactly, linuxcnc seems to be all there except for software repositories in sources list ? I haven't tested on real hardware but it looks complete.

It will install all the dependencies required to build linuxcnc from git sources, but it's up to you to get the sources from git. Hence the name "Install Build Deps".
All changes and info, including a link to JT's very informative pages on building Linuxcnc are in respin.txt , there is a shortcut on the desktop to open that file.

No, no repos for Linuxcnc. As the buildbot builds on a debian system, there are a few issues attempting to install those packages on a Mint system as far as I've seen.

As for RTAI there are problems with UEFI systems as mentioned. So I'm in 2 minds whether to put them back up.