On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 05:36 -0500, Richard Smith wrote: > > 1) the Marvell wireless patch to LB does not appear to work, so the > >Marvell wireless won't run from LinuxBIOS: the existing patch was known > > Wireless testers. Please send my a copy of your serial log for the bootup. > > By not work does that mean its the same issue? That it doesn't show > up in the USB enumeration? > > > > 2) If a flash key/disk running ext3 is not shutdown cleanly, LinuxBIOS > > > won't boot the file system. This means you have to take the key or disk > > > and clean it on a different machine to reboot the machine. This is not a > > > blocker, but is sure irritating. > > > I used ext2 for /boot to avoid this. And ext3 on a flash device isn't a > > hugely cunning plan anyway. > > My experience is different. I've been using the same ext3 key to drop > my linubios.rom test images on and I routinely mout it when its dirty. > In fact I often hit the reset button rather than unmount. > > The buildrom kernel config only contains ext2 not ext3 so regardless > of what the key is its mounted as ext2 > > What I _have_ seen though are times when the key either just will not > mount. Unknown error -2 or maybe -6. I'll note it next time it > happens. A reset button hit has always fixed this. Same board same > key.
Let's use the trac system folks, (until we have something better), to capture this information. I've just added this as http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/55#comment:1 - Jim -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
