On Jul 23 2008, at 22:30, Ton van Overbeek was caught saying: > Hello, > > My xo-1 is currently on build 708. > For testing joyride-2200 I did not want to reflash yet, but boot from a > USB stick instead. > So I downloaded the image from > http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1/streams/joyride/build2200/devel_ext3/xo-1-olpc-stream-joyride-devel_ext3.img.bz2, > > > unzipped it and copied it to a 1 GB Sandisk USB stick. > Booting with extended messages (X game key pressed) shows that OFW finds > my developer key > in the main flash, finds the OS on the USB, does not update the firmware > (no external power) > and then loads the ramdisk. > > Booting starts, but mounting /dev/sda1 on /sysroot fails because the > usbcore.ko module > needed by usb-storage.ko cannot be found. > > Some of the messages are (copying manually from the xo-1 screen and > skipping the stack depth messages): > -------------- > FATAL: Error inserting usb-storage > (/lib/modules/2.6.25-20080722.2.olpc.d86980aeb8d0adb/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.ko): > > Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) > mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /sysroot failed: No such device or address > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/init", line 131, in <module> > lease_writer, run_init) > File "/antitheft.py", line 31, in run > return run_init_callback() > File */init", line 103, in run_init > root_mounted(xo, boothpath).__enter__() # hack to re-mount root > File "/initutil.py", line 120, in __enter__ > check_call({'/bin/mount','-n','-o',access]+extra+[dev,'/sysroot']) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 461, in check_call > raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd) > subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/bin/mount, '-n', '-o', 'ro', > '/dev/sda1', '/sysroot']' returned non-zero exit status 255 > ---------------- > > Is this (booting from USB) supposed to work? Has it ever worked? > Or am I missing something? > It seems that usbcore.ko has to be available early in the boot, but > cannot be found.
USB boot should work and has worked in the past. I'll look into this. ~Deepak -- Deepak Saxena - Kernel Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
