On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 04:12:50PM -0800, S Page wrote: > 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.)
That sounds fixable. Can you describe how you got to this point? > 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 the wiki instructions for booting off USB[1] were out of date.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 would use http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tiny_Core_Linux to boot from USB and investigate the cause: # cat /proc/mtd0 # mount -t jffs2 mtd0 /mnt I would also make a backup using the xo-backup tool included on the Tiny Core Linux build modified for XO-1. This is documented for XO-1.5 at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_backup_your_XO#XO-1.5 but ought to work in a similar fashion for XO-1 ... if you mount the jffs2 filesystem instead. > * Can I jump through hoops to mount the JFFS2 .img and transfer its > contents (cpio?) to an ext3 partition? Yes, except it isn't an .img. > * 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?! Yes, the .tar.lzma does not have boot files in /boot, you need to create the symlink to the versioned boot directory. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
