On 3/13/2013 4:46 AM, lio...@olpc-france.org wrote:
I've finally fixed the issue in a strange way: enabling verbose boot with "change-tag TS show" command on the firmware prompt. See more here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Startup_diagnosis#Enabling_Verbose_Boot_from_OFW
Verbose booting did not work on XO-1s for I and Nancie when we tried the above and similar last week. Further documented @ "Test Station" under http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_Data#Defined_Tags
Thankfully however, we're solving most "gray dots forever" laptop blockages the date-fixing technique honed by Richard Smith and others. Extremely grateful!
One more thing: as a guy that had more than 200 XO to update by hand in Nosy Komba this year. I'm very concerned and disappointed by the disappearing of customization key. I can't imagine how we could deployed 12.1.0 and 13.1.0 without that! Is there any complexity to maintain the customization key?
Indeed http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customization_stick is the lifeline of small deployments, who just don't all have the luxury of Kevin Gordon/Tony Anderson-style custom Linux wizards. Custom undocumented solutions for each East African village from Kenya to Madagascar to Lesotho also have serious sustainability risks, to put it mildly. Working together globally would be far more intelligent on our part, bringing us back to a scalable/documented microdeployment solution for the entire http://olpcMAP.net planet.
(As such, Release 11.3.1 + Documentation Stick + WikipediaFR etc is the only practical solution for Haiti today, but longer term the Haitian Republic sends its voodoo prayers, that we can find such an XO-1-and-beyond breakthrough in coming months, for once in alliance with France 209 years later so perhaps there's real hope at last ;-)
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