Mitch wrote: > If you hold down the check key while booting, the firmware will give > additional information about the boot progress, in both iconic and > textual form.
I did not realize that. Now that I went searching for this, saw it mentioned in the wiki on the 'XO_Troubleshooting_PowerOn' page. And yes, with the check key pressed, the firmware did print "trying sd:\security\devel.sig" and some sort of "invalid" message. [These "stand out" from the other texts if one KNOWS to look for them.] -------- [I haven't been using "chatty" (check key held) mode for booting -- but I've been seeing icons-drawn-by-firmware anyway.] I WISH there was a comprehensive description accessible of the __iconic__ information shown by the boot process. For instance, for me the green 'olpc' icon disappears from the firmware display whenever I have a SD card plugged in (but then I normally *would* see an orange 'SD card' icon). I seem to get the additional red? 'plugin' icon whenever I have an USB stick or an ethernet adapter plugged in. And I have only vague notions about what the various symbols (that can appear underneath an icon) are trying to tell me. mikus _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel