I wanted to try 11.3.0 but my XO-1 prints scary JFFS2 warnings before "Boot has failed, sleeping forever.". (After four years, no more olpc-update for me.)
I'd like to boot off USB and look at my XO-1's NAND filesystem. But the wiki instructions for booting off USB[1] were out of date. I've updated them to de-emphasize the .ext3.img that's no longer built, but can't find instructions for what's in current builds. There have been mail threads and bug reports on the subject, recently "11.2.0 XO-1 boot from USB or SD doesn't work for me"[2] which wound up providing workarounds [3] without explaining how to get started. I think there was a more recent thread but I can't find it. * Can I jump through hoops to mount the JFFS2 .img and transfer its contents (cpio?) to an ext3 partition? * I created an ext3 partition named OLPCRoot and used sudo tar --lzma --numeric-owner -xvf /path/to/os883.tree.tar.lzma to extract the build's files. But the tree doesn't have /boot , initrd, or actrd?! That's probably why trying to boot from it gives ok boot u: Boot device: /usb/disk: Arguments: The attempt to load a boot image failed. These files are deep within u:\versions\run\883\boot , should I be providing special arguments or creating symlinks? Also, people have written separate instructions for booting from SD[4], but wouldn't the procedure be the same? I promise to write up any explanations provided... [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_USB_disks [2] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2011-August/033009.html [3] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11233 [4] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_to_SD_Card Thanks, -- =S Page _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel