Thanks for that. I will place into the bag of tricks! Cheers
KG On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvo...@shaw.ca> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 16:30 -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: > > Ooops I think I sent this to the wrong thread before. Sorry for any > > inconvenience. > > > > I seem to remember that the signed builds would automatically update > > the > > firmware on machines when using the game-key-release update method, > > assuming that one had the power cord plugged in. > > > > Using the current 852 build, the firmware on the XO 1.5 is not being > > upgraded > > from q3a48 to q3a50 (which is the recommended fw listed on the wiki). > > Not a > > big deal, as one can flash using the X-release boot method to the Ok > > prompt, and then using > > the USB stick where the .dot-rom file sits in the /boot directory. > > > > And, I dont expect it to be there using the 35x fs-update method, but > > I was > > just wondering whether this auto-firmware update feature for > > 'game-key-release' installs of signed builds is now a thing of the > > past, a > > figment of my iimagination, bad memory, or > > whether the fw in the pack is maybe still q3a48. > > > > Cheers, > > > > KG > > I've played around with the bootfw rpm, altering the install path to > reflect where /boot really is on the filesystem while booted up. This > has the advantage of being able to use rpm/yum to stage the upgrade of > the firmware. Providing you have the power cable connected, once OFW > looks in /boot it will look for bootfw.zip. I'm just putting the zip in > the correct location to be found. I have a test re-roll of q3a50 > available from: > http://download.laptop.org.au/XO/F11/10.1.2/xoau-firmware > > the diff: > http://download.laptop.org.au/XO/F11/10.1.2/tools/path.diff > > and what I used for the rpm: > http://download.laptop.org.au/XO/F11/10.1.2/tools/bootfw.diff > > If you have net access and would like to test, all on one line: > rpm -Uvh > > http://download.laptop.org.au/XO/F11/10.1.2/xoau-firmware/bootfw-q3a50-2.unsigned.i586.rpm > > > try it out if you like, > > Jerry > > > >
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