On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Holt <[email protected]> wrote: > Conclusion to both issues that were killing us overnight, thanks to KevinG > & All: > > > 1) Old habits die hard -- I erroneously believed the troublesome XO-1s had > no > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/**Developer_key<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_key>as > they did not boot with black/TTY scrolling kernel msgs etc. Hitting > "Esc"-on-boot proved me wrong, causing the http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Okprompt > to appear. > > So Customization Sticks began to work, once we began holding down the > lower game key ("X").on boot. In fact we now hold down the "X" game key on > all XO-1s (secured or not) -- during every Customization Key > auto-installation, simplifying our training of locals (Haitians). > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/**Customization_stick<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick> > > > 2) Our cheap 2GB Micro Center USB sticks work great for reflashing, but > fail about 50% of the time as Customization Sticks, at random they are > ignored completely during the boot process -- so we just keep trying > (sometimes MANY times) until it finally works. In different USB ports for > good luck. A royal pain in the A**, but elbow grease does the job, until > one day higher quality USB sticks appear :/ > > > Aside: our XO-1s all contain build 883 and firmware Q2E48.
Happy to hear. Also glad to hear you've picked 883. Solid release, great networking, great Sugar enhancements. Cheers KG > > -- > Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net ! > > ______________________________**_________________ > support-gang mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/**listinfo/support-gang<http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang> >
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