On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:57:31AM +0000, tkk...@nurturingasia.com wrote: > Is there a complete step by setp quick instruction that I can create > a SD card that will boot Sugar for XO-1 machines? I am happy SD card > deployment running on XO 1.75 and felt maybe I could do the same for > the older machines.
No, there is no such guide. It is possible to do, but nobody has written a guide. I did ask for help on this on 9th December on support-gang@, but no material help emerged. I include the posting below signature. The expertise required include Fedora operating system early boot and the dracut initramfs builder. devel@ mailing list contains this expertise, support-gang@ has far fewer. The external SD slot is not as reliable on the XO-1 as it is on later models, so you might find some XO-1 that won't work with it. A quick demonstration of external SD slot booting can be made by copying the boot folder from a Tiny Core Linux USB drive to an SD card. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 16:20:30 +1100 From: James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org Subject: Wanted: XO-1 boot from external SD Hyoomin on IRC #olpc asked about installing OLPC OS on external SD card on an XO-1. This would allow easer re-use of still working XO-1 laptops for people willing to put up with their low performance and old age cranky habits. I could be wrong, but as far as I know this doesn't work, but could be made to work with some engineering effort. If I am wrong, please say how you did it, so it can be documented on the Wiki. Technical stuff: the key to the problem seems to be the initramfs which has a file olpc-boot-cmdline.sh that doesn't have an entry for the XO-1 external SD slot. http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/dsd/dracut-modules-olpc/tree/30olpc-boot/olpc-boot-cmdline.sh _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
