Hi Sridhar! I didn't know you were getting bare motherboards. Reuben should have some scripts and recommendations as to how to handle the situation.
You'll want to have the right mfg data -- serial number, UUID, KL, KA, KV, LO -- for things to work correctly. Otherwise quite a few things will be not-quite-right in fun and surprising ways. cheers, m On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <srid...@laptop.org.au> 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. > > 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? > > Thanks, > Sridhar > > > > Sridhar Dhanapalan > Engineering Manager > One Laptop per Child Australia > M: +61 425 239 701 > E: srid...@laptop.org.au > A: G.P.O. Box 731 > Sydney, NSW 2001 > W: www.laptop.org.au > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel