On 05/11/2013 12:44 PM, Holt wrote:
Is there a way to boot a large USB hard drive attached to an XO?
Further detail on the trouble drive.
This is a 1TB Seagate Wireless Plus connected via USB. It mounts
correctly when the XO is booted, but if it is connected when the XO is
powered on or rebooted, the XO drops to a firmware "OK" prompt.
I wonder if it could be because the first partition has a boot flag set?
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204885504 bytes, 1953525167 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6f44561a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 8193149 4095551 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 8193150 1953520064 972663457+ 83 Linux
Another volunteer has an external USB drive here which DOES work correctly.
Thanks,
Braddock Gaskill
At our XS Community Sprint this week outside Toronto, we've been
unable to boot XOs with the 700+ GB drive(s) containing very polished
open content provided by http://internet-in-a-box.org
The XOs (eg. XO-4 etc) refuse to auto-boot, leaving the screen at the
OK prompt.
FYI our 1TB disk is a nearly complete snapshot of:
* Wikipedia-in-41-languages, thumbnails for most all images
* OpenStreetMap for the whole world cached at all zoom levels for fast
display
* Gutenberg Prjct's full collection of 40,000+ books, images
* Khan Academy's ~4000 video classes, etc
Does firmware currently block the mounting of all large USB drives --
NTFS in this case if not other filesystems?
Might there be a workaround so isolated XO servers in Haiti (etc!) can
hopefully auto-boot with this quality free content?
Cheers!
--
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