On Oct 17, 2011, at 1:47 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > I'm wondering what is the recommended process for changing an XO > motherboard. The hardware side is relatively straightforward. However, > new motherboards come with blank serial numbers. > > What is the impact of leaving the SN# in the mfg-data blank? My > understanding is that parts of the XO OS first-boot setup and > interactions with an XS are derived from the serial number.
I can't recommend leaving it blank. It is a "required field" in the manufacturing data, which is expected to be present and to be unique among XOs. > We have devised a method (using an olpc.fth script) to write the > serial number of the XO chassis to the mfg-data on the board. What is > the method used in other deployments? Good. That should work well. How are you generating/setting the UUID, the secret part of the device authentication ? I too am interested in hearing how other deployments such as Uruguay deal with this problem. Cheers, wad _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel