On Apr 28, 2008, at 2:37 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:16 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>> You can try to search the SN of the laptops you're trying to >>> activate in >> the lease.sig file to see if they're there... >>> >> >> The activation leases in the lease.sig file seem fine. And I'm >> using >> a collector key to get the serial number/UUID, so I don't expect >> that >> it is a modified UUID causing the problem. > > The collector key also puts the laptop's idea of the current time in > the laptops.dat file; you might check that it doesn't think it's > living in 2037.
It shows that both laptops think it is roughly today (4/28 or 4/29 2008). > Switching to VT1 will also tell you if python is > throwing any errors or exceptions that might be relevant. It boots for a while, then prints ******************* Activating ******************* mount: Mounting xxxxx on /mnt/xxx failed: No such device or address (a number of times for the expected values of xxxx) FATAL: module ipv6 not found > Trying to generate a dev key (as Richard suggested) may also help > diagnose the > issue (bad UUID, bad key, etc). I'll try this next. > Finally, there were firmware changes > made at one point which affect OFW's ability to read nand:/security. > It's not entirely clear from your description, but if the machine > boots successfully with the activation key in, but won't boot w/o the > activation key, it could be firmware-related. If I boot with the activation inserted, it always powers off in 10 sec. How do I "boot with activation key inserted" ? > Otherwise, Mitch seems > correct that this doesn't look to be a firmware issue. > --scott > > -- > ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
