On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 12:58 -0700, Braddock wrote: > On 05/11/2013 12:44 PM, Holt wrote: > > Is there a way to boot a large USB hard drive attached to an XO? > > Further detail on the trouble drive. > > This is a 1TB Seagate Wireless Plus connected via USB. It mounts > correctly when the XO is booted, but if it is connected when the XO is > powered on or rebooted, the XO drops to a firmware "OK" prompt. > > I wonder if it could be because the first partition has a boot flag set? > > > # fdisk -l /dev/sda > > Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204885504 bytes, 1953525167 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x6f44561a > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 2048 8193149 4095551 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT > /dev/sda2 8193150 1953520064 972663457+ 83 Linux > >
With James' earlier comment about OFW booting a partition that has been flagged as bootable, perhaps setting the second partition as bootable will correct this issue. Jerry > Another volunteer has an external USB drive here which DOES work correctly. > > Thanks, > Braddock Gaskill > > > > At our XS Community Sprint this week outside Toronto, we've been > > unable to boot XOs with the 700+ GB drive(s) containing very polished > > open content provided by http://internet-in-a-box.org > > The XOs (eg. XO-4 etc) refuse to auto-boot, leaving the screen at the > > OK prompt. > > > > FYI our 1TB disk is a nearly complete snapshot of: > > * Wikipedia-in-41-languages, thumbnails for most all images > > * OpenStreetMap for the whole world cached at all zoom levels for fast > > display > > * Gutenberg Prjct's full collection of 40,000+ books, images > > * Khan Academy's ~4000 video classes, etc > > > > Does firmware currently block the mounting of all large USB drives -- > > NTFS in this case if not other filesystems? > > Might there be a workaround so isolated XO servers in Haiti (etc!) can > > hopefully auto-boot with this quality free content? > > Cheers! > > > > -- > > Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net ! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Server-devel mailing list > > server-de...@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > server-de...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel