Re: Collection key vs Q2E44 (and Q3A41?)

2010-07-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Ed McNierney wrote: > (...) provided the laptop is secure-booting Thanks! I did wonder about secure boot influence. So what I am getting here is a combination of un-secure machines and bad quality USB sticks muddying the waters. > Richard and I just tested a SKU

Re: Collection key vs Q2E44 (and Q3A41?)

2010-07-30 Thread Ed McNierney
Martin - Just another note of advice - I discovered a normal-looking USB key that *wasn't* working had a single FAT partition on it, but it had been erased on a Mac and had a GUID partition table. Reformatting with an MBR fixed it. - Ed On Jul 30, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Martin Langhoff wr

Re: Collection key vs Q2E44 (and Q3A41?)

2010-07-30 Thread Ed McNierney
Martin - We've done some quick testing here in the office. It appears that collection keys on Q3A40, Q3A42, and Q3A46 work, provided the laptop is secure-booting. If your machines are not secured, you need to hold down the "x" game key while booting. Remember that with prettyboot enabled, an

Re: Collection key vs Q2E44 (and Q3A41?)

2010-07-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Mitch, wasn't aware you were on vacation. Techteam - I am hoping for independent confirmation -- the USB disks on my bench are pretty shit. Can anyone with a "known to behave well" usb get a collection key to work on XO-1.5 or on XO-1+Q2E44? cheers, m On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Mit

Re: Collection key vs Q2E44 (and Q3A41?)

2010-07-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Mitch Bradley wrote: > Have you tried the check button for more feedback? Yes, on all the machines. Where it fails, it never mentions trying anything on the usb disk. Skips straight to booting from nand. m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org -- S

Collection key vs Q2E44 (and Q3A41?)

2010-07-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Mitch, list, I am running a sn/uuid collection across XOs that I have here. The USB flash disks I have available are very bad quality. XO-1 hw running Q2D17 or Q2E41 mostly succeeds (varies with USB quality). XO-1 with Q2E43 or 44, and XO-1.5 with Q3A41 have failed in all cases. The best USB